ðat tu salt ðurg gon."—(Ibid., p. 7.)
"at tin herte."—(Ibid., p. 7.)
III. Simplicity of grammatical structure and construction of sentences.[[16]]
1. The neglect of gender and number in nouns.
2. The genitive singular of substantives end in -es in all genders.[[17]]
3. The absence of the gen. pl. of substantives in -ene.
4. The employment of an uninflected article.[[18]]
5. The use of ðat (that) as a demonstrative adjective, and not as the neuter of the article. The form ðas (those), common enough in the fourteenth century, does not occur in this poem or in the Ormulum.
6. No inflection of the adjective in the accusative singular. The phrase 'godun dai,' good day, in l. [1430], p. 41, contains a solitary instance of the accusative of the adjective, but it is, no doubt, a mere remnant of the older speech, just like our 'for the nonce' (= for then once), and is no proof that the writer or his readers employed it as a common inflection. The form godun is a corruption of godne, as it is more properly written in works in the Southern dialects as late as the middle of the fourteenth century.
7. Adjectives and adverbs with the termination -like.