Episode 164: Somewhere in the Middle
The History of English Podcast
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The Grammar of the Elizabethan Period
In each of the scenarios I described people had a choice between using do or not using do. And once again English ultimately chose a middle path. It embraced the use of do for negative statements and questions but it abandoned do in those regular affirmative statements. So as we look at the way these various types of sentences were being formed in the Elizabethan period we see how the grammar of the period was in flux.
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