Late Modern English

Question 1

Time period?

Answer 1

1700AD-present

Question 2

Samuel Johnson (2)

Answer 2

Dictionary made 1755- 40,000 words

Used literary sources to support his definitions from Shakespeare, the bible etc

Question 3

Prescriptivism

Answer 3

Study of language with the intention of controlling it/dictating it

Question 4

The Prescriptive Grammarians (2)

Answer 4

Group published over 200 guides on grammar being the most influential
It had 200 pages of idiosyncratic rules on which grammatical forms should be avoided and encouraged

“Never put a preposition at the end of a sentence”