1. What changes occurred in the vowels of Middle English?

2. What consonant changes occurred in Middle English?

3. How did the Middle English period end?

4. What is the Great Vowel Shift?

5. What changes were made by W. Shakespeare?

6. How did printing appear in Britain?

7. How did English become an internationally spoken language?

8. What were the first English vocabularies (grammars, phonetic books)?

9. What are the variants of the modern English language?

10. What do you know about Middle English dialects?

11. What Old English dialects can you point and what do you know about them?

12. What is the purpose of studying history of English?

13. How can we use diachronic and synchronic approaches in studying English?

14. Who were the first settlers of the British Isles, what do you know about them?

15. What syllable was stressed in Germanic words?

16. What alphabets were used by the Germanic tribes?

17. Why is English a Germanic language?

18. How did the Anglo-Saxon Conquest finish?

19. What were the main periods in the history of English?

20. How did the Roman Conquest happen?

21. What is Old English composition?

22. How did Old English words attach affixes?

23. What were Celtic and Roman loan-words in the Old English laguage?

24. What was Old English morphology?

25. What was Old English syntax?

26. What was the influence of the Scandinavian Conquest?

27. What was the result of the Norman Conquest?

28. What were the changes in Middle English?

29. How did English become literary?

30. What happened in Modern English phonetics and grammar?

31. What changes happened in the case system of Middle English?

32. What were the changes in conjugation in Middle English?

33. In what way was the spelling changed in Middle English?

34. What were the changes in the vocabulary of Middle English?

35. What is the Grimm's Law?

36. What is the Verner's Law?

37. What do you know about rhotacism?

38. What major vowel changes occurred in Germanic languages?

39. How was the Proto-Germanic grammar organized?

40. What were the dialects of the Proto-Germanic language?