New laws that were passed during the Industrial Revolution helped city residents by O creating more jobs for industrial workers.
O giving children the option to attend school.
O improving the standard of Iiving in cities.
O enabling people to move to the upper class.

The three steps before modern english were indo-european, germanic, and old english. as peoples moved around the eurasian continent, their languages changed. throughout the ages, the languages became more specialized. as english has many germanic influences, it is easy to see how this was one of the forebears. also, old english was one of the main ancestors of the modern language, spoken in the 5th through about the 13th centuries.