1. Some Linguistic Features of Early Modern English
1. Grammatical Features, in particular
Early modern English was characterized by lack of the progressive aspect in its verb system: when goes he rather than when is he going.
Constructions like having considered the event, and having analyzed the event were very few.
There was impersonal use of the verb. They often said such things as: it likes me not for I am not pleased with, or it yearns me not for I am not eager.

2. Some Linguistic Features of EME Cont…ed
It maintained archaic past tense forms of the verb, e.g. holp ‘helped’, brent ‘burnt’, brast ‘burst’.
Early Modern English omitted an article where present day English calls for one and interjected the definite article where current usage omits it: creeping like snail, with as big heart, in number of our friends, within this mile and half, in table of my heart, at the length, at the last.
The negative was syntactically positioned before the verb, as in she not denies it.

3. Some Linguistic Features of EME Cont…ed
Use of double superlatives, as in more happier, the most unkindest.
The prepositions were used differently from the present day English. For example, in was used for at, and of was used for from, on, upon, about, during, by, at, with, for, and as.
In the noun, the –s of plurality became the standard morphology.

4. Some Linguistic Features of EME Cont…ed
A few archaic weak plurals in –n survives, as in oxen and the mixed forms brethren and children, some indeterminate plurals like sheep and deer remained, and a small number of vowel mutation plurals like mice and feet continued in use, but for the most part, -s became the universal plural marker.
Possession was marked by –’s in terminal positions. The apostrophe indicated the omission of either e, i, or y of the Middle English genitives: -es, -is, -ys.

5. Some Linguistic Features of EME Cont…ed
The pronouns underwent three major changes: the abandoning of the terms thou, thy, and thee, except in formal prayer usage; the replacement of ye by you in the nominative case; and the gradual acceptance of its as the genitive case of it.
Who/whom emerged as a relative pronoun, as in who steals my purse steals trash.
There was domination of –s over –eth as the morpheme of the third person singular in the present indicative mood of the verb.