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Select if the statement is true or false.
English has changed very little since the time of the King James Version of the Bible.
True
False
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False.
The King James Version (1611) is in Early Modern English; since then vocabulary, meanings, grammar, pronunciation and spelling have all shifted substantially. Many words in the KJV have different senses today (e.g., "awful," "presently," "conversation"), pronouns and verb endings like "thou" and "-eth" have fallen out of regular use, and pronunciation has changed too. The KJV influenced modern English and preserves many familiar phrases, but English has not remained largely unchanged.
The King James Version (1611) is in Early Modern English; since then vocabulary, meanings, grammar, pronunciation and spelling have all shifted substantially. Many words in the KJV have different senses today (e.g., "awful," "presently," "conversation"), pronouns and verb endings like "thou" and "-eth" have fallen out of regular use, and pronunciation has changed too. The KJV influenced modern English and preserves many familiar phrases, but English has not remained largely unchanged.
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