ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses on fair share of linguistics. This is because in order to understand how Shakespeare's grammar works, and how it differs from our own, we will have to lift up the bonnet and look inside the car engine. This may apply to the following section, which deals with ways of conveying grammatical information by means of inflexions, function words, and word order. Languages differ widely in the degree to which they use inflexions to express grammatical notions. Some languages use function words and word order more than inflexions to express grammatical information, and such languages are called analytic ones. In highly inflected languages like Russian or OE, word order is often not important. Chronologically Shakespeare lies exactly half way between the end of the OE period and the present day. The main function of tenses in a language is to indicate time relations.
