01355383 Varieties of English and Cultures of English Native Speakers 03 | Page 17

Inflection started to lose its significance in
the late Old English. For the first time,
prepositions came in. Word endings were
dropped. And therefore, the order of words
became very important. People started using
–s with plural nouns and –ed became more
popular as the past tense verb form.
(Bragg, 2003; Viney 2003)