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English is modern world language . It is used by not less than a hundred countries for doing government work, commerce,banking, education,scientific and technical research .

Let us study contribution of English to the world’s pool of sublime knowledge. English is the mother togue of people of England . It was a Germanic language  and its grammar and sentence structure are somewhat similar to German. Four centuries back  English had old archaic  words and old spelling which cannot be understood now. In those old days all government  and diplomatic work,commercial and banking work were conducted in Latin language .

Later many English writers developed English language for literary work. The spellings were archaic. The language can be only half understood now. Example –the works of Chaucer and Spencer.

In latter Middle Ages England was developing as a great military and economic power. It controlled the seas. The economy greatly prospered and schools were being established to spread knowledge to all sections of society. From this time great efforts were made to standardize and simplify language ,to develop standard vocavbulary and standardize spelling . During this early period we have the great William Shakespeare the great dramatist who wrote dramas with majestic philosophic and poetic content. He is still considered the greatest author who wrote the most beautiful content. The dramas of Shakespeare,Ben Johnson etc were written in good majestic  English. These writings helped inspire other English writers to aim at reforming the language  and popularizing the language

In this great movement  Dr Samuel Johnson is one of the central figures. In the London clubs,coffee houses and pubs great literary figures often gathered. There were great essayists who followed Dr Johnson’s example and also on their own wrote books in simple modern English. There were all through great poets (like John Milton, William Wordsworth )who can be counted among thw world’s best poets... Great and voluminous poetry started to develop in the language.

in 19th and 20th centuries there were great writers. There were great poets, philosophers and essayists.  In 18th century a new literary form,the Novel,was born. The English novel can be called the most fertile literary form in the world. There were dozens of  great novelists in  three centuries and their output can be called one of the  gold mines of thought in human literature. The daily newspaper and novel became respectively great vehicles of information and entertainment .



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