Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 2 AIL 0139 short lesson, about 20 seconds
How Long These Features Last
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The idea
Thou and -eth fade through the seventeenth century, but inversion, suspension and the subjunctive persist into the nineteenth and survive in the twentieth where a writer wants formality. The skills in this unit are not confined to the oldest band.
In practice
Inversion outlives thou by centuries.
Where people slip
Recent does not mean plain.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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