Modern English
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- noun
- /ˈmɒdərn ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
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inglés moderno
- That's because our modern English plural pronouns, like they actually come from Old Norse.
- modern English usage
- modern English culture
In Old English, as in Modern English, subjects can be simple or complex.
- In Old English, as in Modern English, subjects can be simple or complex.
- I enjoyed learning a lot about older English and the etymology of certain say older English or even modern English words.
- So we basically, I think, never do this in modern English.
Examples
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Many classic texts have been translated into modern English to make them more accessible to today's readers.
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Now, these offenses, venial though they may be, against Fowler's Modern English Usage have got to cease.
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If I would take that beautiful poem and put it into modern English, into practical language, it would be this.
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It's what we call in modern English a curb chain.
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Later that morning, I bought her a Bible in modern English since she said she was having trouble understanding the KJV.
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The historical roots of modern English play an even larger role in Tolkien's work.
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The New Berkeley Version in Modern English translates the 9th verse.
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Bankovskis says that his world has been made more colorful by modern English-language literature.
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His knowledge of Latin would have alerted him to etymological connections with words derived from it in modern English.
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Yet the phrase also means that we are dedicated to learning or to scholarship, words that in modern English have been used to designate all knowledge outside the natural and social sciences.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
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A language spoken in the UK, the US, and many countries and used worldwide for communication
How Archaic
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the modern form of the English language' is directly derivable from combining 'modern' (present or recent) with 'English' (the language). This compositional, adjective + noun pattern is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will comprehend the MWE.
Etymology
Modern English gets its name from calling this stage 'modern', meaning 'recent', because after about 1450 the new printing press and many books spread a newer kind of English across the country and made spelling and words more like what we use today. So Modern English refers to the form of English spoken and written from that time up to now.