Modern English, which almost entirely lacks declension in its nouns, does not have an explicitly marked accusative case even in the pronouns.

It is written in English, very similar to the Early Modern English linguistic style of the King James Version of the Bible, and has since been fully or partially translated into 108 languages.

Translations into the vernacular were done by famous notables, including King Alfred ( Old English ), Jean de Meun ( Old French ), Geoffrey Chaucer ( Middle English ), Queen Elizabeth I ( Early Modern English ), and Notker Labeo ( Old High German ).

Another result of the English influence on Chinese is the appearance in Modern Chinese texts of so-called 字母词 zìmǔcí ( lit.

Examples of cognates in Indo-European languages are the words night ( English ), nuit ( French ), Nacht ( German ), nacht ( Dutch ), nag ( Afrikaans ), nicht ( Scots ), natt ( Swedish, Norwegian ), nat ( Danish ), nátt ( Faroese ), nótt ( Icelandic ), noc ( Czech, Slovak, Polish ), ночь, noch ( Russian ), ноќ, noć ( Macedonian ), нощ, nosht ( Bulgarian ), ніч, nich ( Ukrainian ), ноч, noch / noč ( Belarusian ), noč ( Slovene ), noć ( Serbo-Croatian ), νύξ, nyx ( Ancient Greek, νύχτα / nyhta in Modern Greek ), nox ( Latin ), nakt-( Sanskrit ), natë ( Albanian ), noche ( Spanish ), nos ( Welsh ), nueche ( Asturian ), noite ( Portuguese and Galician ), notte ( Italian ), nit ( Catalan ), noapte ( Romanian ), nakts ( Latvian ) and naktis ( Lithuanian ), all meaning " night " and derived from the Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ), " night ".

Another Indo-European example is star ( English ), str-( Sanskrit ), tara ( Hindi-Urdu ), étoile ( French ), ἀστήρ ( astēr ) ( Greek or ἀστέρι / ἄστρο, asteri / astro in Modern Greek ), stella ( Italian ), aster ( Latin ) stea ( Romanian and Venetian ), stairno ( Gothic ), astl ( Armenian ), Stern ( German ), ster ( Dutch and Afrikaans ), starn ( Scots ), stjerne ( Norwegian and Danish ), stjarna ( Icelandic ), stjärna ( Swedish ), stjørna ( Faroese ), setāre ( Persian ), stoorei ( Pashto ), seren ( Welsh ), steren ( Cornish ), estel ( Catalan ), estrella Spanish, estrella Asturian and Leonese, estrela ( Portuguese and Galician ) and estêre or stêrk ( Kurdish ), from the PIE, " star ".

According to Partridge ( 1972: 12 ), it dates from around 1840 and arose in the East End of London, however John Camden Hotten in his 1859 Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words states that ( English ) rhyming slang originated " about twelve or fifteen years ago " ( i. e. in the 1840s ) with ' chaunters ' and ' patterers ' in the Seven Dials area of London.

The language of Don Quixote, although still containing archaisms, is far more understandable to modern Spanish readers than is, for instance, the completely medieval Spanish of the Poema de mio Cid, a kind of Spanish that is as different from Cervantes's language as Middle English is from Modern English.

This conflation of case in Middle and Modern English has led most modern grammarians to discard the " accusative " and " dative " labels as obsolete, often using the term " objective " for oblique.

In Modern English, an indirect object is often expressed with a prepositional phrase of " to " or " for ".

Old English was a highly inflected language, as befits its Indo-European and especially its Germanic linguistic ancestry, but its declensions greatly simplified as it evolved into Modern English.

In Modern English, nouns have distinct singular and plural forms ; that is, they decline to reflect their grammatical number.

Gender is at best only weakly grammaticalized in Modern English.

Adjectives are not declined for case in Modern English, though they were in Old English.

The article is never regarded as declined in Modern English, although technically the words this and that, and their plural forms these and those, are modern forms of the as it was declined in Old English.

* English in the British Isles until its consolidation as a national language in the Renaissance and the rise of Modern English ; subsequently internationally under the various states in or formerly in the British Empire ; globally since the victories of the predominantly English speaking countries ( United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and others ) and their allies in the two world wars ending in 1918 ( World War I ) and 1945 ( WW II ) and the subsequent rise of the United States as a superpower and major cultural influence.

Nash was regarded respectfully by the literary establishment, and his poems were frequently anthologized even in serious collections such as Selden Rodman's 1946 A New Anthology of Modern Poetry.

* Shiffert, Edith, and Yuki Sawa, editors and translators, Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry, Rutland, Vermont, Tuttle, 1972

* Profile at Modern American Poetry Society

* John Dennis: The Advancement and Reformation of Modern Poetry

* Lola Ridge at Modern American Poetry

Around the end of 1908, he presented his paper A Lecture on Modern Poetry at one of the club's meetings.

The Imagist Poem, Modern Poetry in Miniature ( Story Line Press, 1963, expanded 2001 ).

: " In a Station of the Metro " at Modern American Poetry

* Emily Dickinson at Modern American Poetry

** Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era, Poetry, Drama, Criticism, Columbia University Press © 1984 reprinted 1998 ISBN 0-231-11435-4

* Biography and critical commentary at Modern American Poetry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

* Harry Crosby Modern American Poetry

* Modern American Poetry

* Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Grace Schulman

* Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Frederick Morgan

* Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Eleanor Ross Taylor

* Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: George Garrett

* Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: X. J.

* Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Fred Chappell

* Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Maxine Kumin

* Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Wendell Berry

* Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: George Starbuck

* Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Gwendolyn Brooks

* Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: John Frederick Nims

* Spence, Jonathan D. The Search for Modern China ( 1999 ), 876pp ; well written survey from 1644 to 1990s excerpt and text search ; complete edition online at Questia

War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937-1945 ( 1994 ) complete text online free

* Spence, Jonathan D. The Search for Modern China ( 1991 ), 876pp ; well written survey from 1644 to 1980s excerpt and text search ; complete edition online

Modern Scottish History, 1707 To the Present: vol 5: Major Documents ( Tuckwell Press, 1998 ) online edition

An Economic History of Modern France ( 1979 ) online edition

* Duff, Michael J. M-Theory ( the Theory Formerly Known as Strings ), International Journal of Modern Physics A, 11 ( 1996 ) 5623 – 5642, online at Cornell University's arXiv ePrint server.

* Amryc, C. Pantheism: The Light and Hope of Modern Reason, 1898. online

* Perry ; Duncan M. Stefan Stambolov and the Emergence of Modern Bulgaria, 1870-1895 ( 1993 ) online edition

Modern online music distribution depends on digital recording and data compression.

Eckert and other " post-Farmerian " writers ( denoting authors working with or in a similar vein as Eckert, who are admirers of Farmer's Wold Newton biographies and fiction ) have – through crossovers documented in Eckert's massive online Crossover Chronology ( published in book form by Black Coat Press in two volumes in 2010 as Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World ), and through parascholarly articles such as those appearing on the various WNU-themed websites online ; Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe ( edited by Win Scott Eckert, MonkeyBrain Books, 2005, a 2007 Locus Award finalist ) and in various issues of the pro-zine dedicated to and authorized by Farmer, Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer ( published by Michael Croteau, webmaster of the Official Philip José Farmer Home Page ) – brought numerous further fictional characters into the WNU.

" Other architects, well known ( Frank Lloyd Wright, for example ) and not so well known, also contributed significant modern houses that elicited strong reactions from nearly everyone who saw them and are still astonishing today ... New Canaan came to be the locus of the modern movement's experimentation in materials, construction methods, space, and form ", according to an online description of The Harvard Five in New Canaan: Mid-Century Modern Houses, by William D. Earls.

Modern shuriken, unlike historical ones, are most often made of stainless steel and are commercially available in many knife shops in Europe and North America or online.

The Gilded Age: Essays on the Origins of Modern America ( 1995 ) online edition

Moody and the Rise of Modern Mass Evangelism ( 2003 ) online edition

A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America, 1865 – 1925 ( 1995 ) chapter 1 ' Dominance of Rails ' online

Modern Germany: society, economy, and politics in the twentieth century ( 1987 ) ACLS E-book online

War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937-1945 ( 1994 ) complete text online free

* A Third Testament: A Modern Pilgrim Explores the Spiritual Wanderings of Augustine, Blake, Pascal, Tolstoy, Bonhoeffer, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky, ( 1976, 2002 ) ISBN 0-87486-921-8 Full text online.

* Weaver, Richard M. " Two Types of American Individualism ," Modern Age 1963 7 ( 2 ): 119-134 ; compares Randolph with Henry David Thoreau online edition

The first complete comprehensive edition of Oahspe in Modern Language was published online in 2007 and in hardcopy in 2010.

Modern software editors make it possible to obtain sound banks from online sources and load them straight into the DX7 via MIDI.

" Beacon's Modern Era: 1945-2003 ," Journal of Scholarly Publishing ( 2004 ) 35 # 4 pp 200-209 online

Modern technology has led to new forms of abuse, by text messaging and online cyber-bullying.