Практикум по истории языка (древнеанглийский период). Пятышина Т.Г - 45 стр.

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Text 3. ÆLFRIC'S GRAMMAR

The Anglo-Saxon scholar Ælfric (955–1020) translated into

English the book Ars Grammatica, written by Donatus Aurelius in

Latin in the middle of the IV-th century. In his preface he

underlines the importance of studying Grammar.

Ic Ælfric wolde þās lytlan bōc awendan to englīscum

gereorde of þām stæfcræfte, þe is gehāten Grammatica, sӯððan

ic þā twā bēc awende on hundeahtatigum spellum, forðan þē

stæfcræft is seō cæg, þe þæra bōca andgit unlīcð. And ic þōhte,

þæt þeos bēc mihte fremjan jungum cildum to anginne þæs

cræftes, ōððæt hī to māran andgyte becumon.

[Ivanova I. P., Belyaeva T.M., Chakhoyan L.P.].

EXERCISES

Ex. 1. Transcribe the following words: þas, þam, þē, þā, forðan,

unlīcþ, þohte, þæt, þeos, oððat. (In the initial and final positions

the letter þ is voiceless, but in the intervocal position it was and

still is voiced: e.g. bother).

Compare the following words in Modern English:

1) [ð] this – these, that – those, there, then, though,

2) [þ] theatre, thin, thanks, thick, thoroughfare.

Ex. 2. Try to find:

1) two predicates – in the Past Simple,

2) one predicate – in the Present Simple,

3) two modal predicates,

4) two compound nominal predicates.