Téma: Trends of Modern English
Jazyk: Angličtina
Přidal(a): KíťaCZ
Trend towards simplicity of words
English used to distinguish gender (pro odlišení pohlaví)
doctor vs. doctoress
He has got a brother.
Has he got a brother? Trend regularity
Does he have a brother?
Trend towards flexibility of functions of individual words
- One word can operate as more parts of speech
ROUND
- preposition -> He went round the table.
- adjective -> a round table
- adverb -> go round
- noun -> a round of drinks
- verb -> The motorcycle rounded the corner.
Creating new words by composition
- compounds , skyscraper, school-bag
- composition – combining 2 or more roots of words (kombinování 2 nebo více kořenů)
Openness of vocabulary
- easy acquisition of words from other language (snadné pořízení z jiného jazyka)
