How did the adjective system evolve from Old English through Early Modern English in terms of grammatical categories and declension patterns?

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OE adjectives agreed only in number; ME added gender distinctions; EModE preserved both but eliminated case agreement.

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OE adjectives declined for gender, number, and case with strong and weak forms; by EModE, all these categories were lost except the degrees of comparison, with analytical forms (more/most) developing alongside suffixal ones (-er/-est).

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OE adjectives had only strong declension; ME introduced weak forms borrowed from French; EModE eliminated all declensions entirely.

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OE adjectives were invariable; ME developed gender and case distinctions; EModE retained only gender agreement with nouns.

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