Language history
The language family within the Indo-European languages that English belongs to.
What is the Germanic language family?
Many words relating to the Church e.g. altar, priest, or hymn originate from this language.
What is Latin?
A simple sentence.
What is (a sentence consisting of) one main clause?
The definition of the prefix bi-.
What is two?
The centuries in which Britain was subject to Viking attacks and later colonization.
Which was approximately 800-1100?
Words like birth and knife originate from this language.
What is Old Norse/Scandinavian?
A complex sentence.
What is (a sentence consisting of) one main clause and one or more subordinate clauses?
The suffix added to a word to indicate being capable of or in condition of.
What is -able/-ible?
These are two words that Old English and Old Norse had in common and that made the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings able to communicate.
What are man/wife/mother/folk/house/thing/winter/summer, will/can/come/hear/see/think/ride/over/under/mine/thine?
Many words relating to government and the judicial system originate from this language.
What is (Norman) French?
A compound sentence and a compound-complex sentence.
What are a sentence consisting of two or more main clauses and a sentence consisting of two or more main clauses and one or more subordinate clauses?
The definition of superfluous.
What is unnecessary/excessive/too much?
The winner of the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
Who were William the Conqueror and/or the Normans?
Other than words with the prefix al-, these three words originate from Arabic
What are Soda/Zero/Admiral/Coffee/Guitar/Hazard/Racquet/Sofa/Safari?
It is the kind of sentence that asks a question.
What is an interrogative sentence?
To be almighty or all-powerful.
What is(the definition of) omnipotent?
These are two reasons why English did not disappear after the Norman conquest.
What are the fact that the Normans were a minority/ they had to learn English to interact with the commoners/ not many Norman women moved to England, resulting in intermarriages and bilingual children/ there were political uncertainty and France was the enemy/ the plague decimated the population?
These are one loan word from the Americas and one loan word from India respectively.
What is skunk/ bayou/ toboggan/ squash/ totem/ avocado/ chili/ barbecue/ canoe/ hammock (from the Americas) and
bangle/ cheetah/ cot,/ juggernaut/ jungle/ loot/ pyjamas/ shampoo/ yoga (from India)?
These are all the correct ways of correcting a run-on sentence.
What are 1) inserting a comma and a coordinating conjunction, 2) inserting a period, and 3) inserting a semicolon?
To wander or ramble about.
What is (the definition of) meander(ing)?