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Which mood of verbs lost all the endings in the Late Modern English?
Subjunctive
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What were two main directions in the Enlightenment and their representatives?
Moderate (Rene Descartes, John Locke, Immanuel Kant) and radical (Benedict de Spinoza)
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What led to the Civil War in the US?
Slave Trade
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What was the reason for "dictionary wars" between Noah Webster and Joseph Worcester?
plagiarism of Joseph Worcester
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Which accent of American English is considered to be the standard one?
General American
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Which grammatical approach became popular in the XIX century?
Classical scientific approach
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Which historical event resulted in borrowing words from such languages as Hindi, Maori, etc.?
Colonization by the British Empire
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In which dialect is omission of subjects in relative clauses popular?
Cockney
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Why was the grammatical approach popular in the XVIII century called "prescriptive"?
Because the aim was to fix the "correct" grammatical rules
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What were the first attempts to standardize English grammar?
1762 - Robert Lowth: "A Short Introduction to English Grammar"; 1761 - Joseph Priestley: "The Rudiments of English Grammar", etc.
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Who was the first to systematize the origin of words in a dictionary?
Nathan Bailey
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Where did the expression "Boston tea party" originate from?
1773 - protest of Americans against British taxation law (destroying tea of British)
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What did American revolution lead to, in regard to the development of the English language?
territorial segregation and dialectal differentiation
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