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This section contains tutorials and exercises that are of use to students in more than one class.
At the moment these tutorials are in rough form: they have been converted automatically in most cases from pre-existing documents for use by students in my classes right now.
Bibles for students of literature
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Grammar Essentials 2: Parts of Speech (Word Classes) Exercise Answers
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The Old English Alphabet
Old English texts were copied in manuscripts by scribes. These scribes used an alphabet based on the Latin alphabet, but with some native additions and occasionally runes…
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Basic Old English Grammar
Old English and Modern English can be deceptively similar from a syntactic point of view. In particular, word order frequently is the same in the two languages (though Old English is actually probably closer in some aspects of its word order to other Low German languages such as Dutch). This means that it is often possible to translate simple declarative sentences from Old English by simply looking up the meaning of each word in a dictionary…
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The Pronunciation of Old English
The sounds of Old English should not prove difficult, with a few exceptions, for speakers of Modern English. It can be hard at first to get used to some of the spelling conventions, such as the fact that all letters—including final e—are pronounced; but on the whole Old English does not have many sounds that are not the same as in Modern English, and, in most cases, indicated by the same letters…
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Using Oxygen and Subversion client
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An Anglo-Saxon Timeline
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Transcription Guidelines
The following is a list of typographical conventions to use when transcribing medieval manuscripts in my classes.
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How to Study Old English (or Latin or any other dead language) for a Test or an Exam
So how should you study in Old English class? Here are some tips I’ve compiled from personal experience and asking other scholars of my generation who have studied ancient or medieval languages (e.g. Latin, Greek, Old English, Old Frisian, etc.).
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Insular Script
Here is a basic listing of letters in an insular script. The letters are from a manuscript of the early eleventh century.
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Grimm's Law and Verner's Law Notes
This tutorial looks at Grimm’s Law and Verner’s Law.
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Grammar Essentials 2: Parts of Speech (Word Classes)
Words are different from each other in meaning—car and unwelcome mean different things, after all.
But they can also differ from each other in more than meaning: they can also differ in the way they are used in sentences.
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Grammar Essentials 1: Inflections (Inflectional Morphology)
For the most part, English uses word order to indicate the relationship among words in sentences. When I say “The boy bit the dog”, people listening to me know that it was the boy who did the biting because The boy comes first in the sentence. Likewise, they know that it was the dog that was bitten because the dog comes after bit.
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Grammar: A Guide to the Essentials
This tutorial is intended for high school, college, and University students who need a quick guide the essentials of English grammar. Its goal is to help you understand the core grammatical terminology used in textbooks and lectures in courses on foreign languages, the History of English, Old English, or other medieval and classical languages.
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Old English Metre: A Brief Guide
Although the Anglo-Saxons left no accounts of their metrical organisation, statistical and linguistic analysis of the poetic corpus has allowed us to come up with a good idea as to how their verse worked.
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