This article talks about the history of English, how it was formed throughout time and how English language was originated mainly from Britain, but also from other countries. It also mentions the evolutions of English language in: Old, Middle and Modern English. The Old English is situated after the year of eleven hundred, it would be rather difficult to read and understand it now-a-days. The Middle English is located between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries, there are actual words which have disappeared because they had no meaning, the order of words was reorganized and show new and different meanings. The Modern English is the one we’re using now-a-days, phonics and spellings were improved. The author wrote some common difficulties in English language, like words with different meanings, the modifications of English in some countries, etc.
She thinks that English is the most complex language in the entire world because it’s a combination of some other languages like Anglo-Norman-French and Latin. What she expects from English language is constantly developing in vocabulary, grammar, etc.
The audiences of this article are the English Learners because they want to find out how English became the most important language in the world, and mainly to know the origin of it. Also the English Teachers would be another type of audience because for teaching English they want to be more informed about this language.
Its main purpose is to inform people about the history of the English Language, how it was formed and its origin. Another purpose is to express the author’s (Lucy Rucker) ideas about this language.
It is written in an informal tone because she says things like “in my opinion” or “we now have the language we love the most” in these phrases we can see that she wanted to express her ideas and not just facts about English language.
I think her research was complete because she explained the most basic things about English Language, even though she also could include more aspects about it, I think the message is clear and easy to understand.
I don’t agree that English is the most difficult language to learn because almost every language has its complications, like for example the combinations of other languages or different meanings with their words, etc. I really don’t think English is that difficult because if it was that complicated, then people wouldn’t choose it as a lingua franca.
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