What kind of language is Anglo-saxon was it fragmented inflected or simple?

Anglo-Saxon, also known as Old English, was a highly inflected language. This means that words changed their forms depending on their grammatical function in a sentence. For example, nouns changed their endings to indicate singular or plural, and verbs changed their endings to indicate tense, person, and number.

Here's why it's considered inflected:

* Extensive use of suffixes: Anglo-Saxon relied heavily on suffixes to mark grammatical relationships.

* Case system: Nouns and pronouns had distinct case endings (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative) to show their role in a sentence.

* Verb conjugation: Verbs had complex conjugation patterns, with changes in endings based on tense, person, and number.

While this inflected system might seem complex, it provided a lot of grammatical information within the structure of a word itself. This made it possible to have relatively simple sentence structures compared to modern English, which relies more heavily on word order.

Here's an example to illustrate the difference:

* Modern English: The dog chased the cat. (Word order dictates subject-verb-object)

* Old English: Se hund geċēas þā catt. (The dog chased the cat.) (Case endings on "hund" and "catt" indicate their grammatical roles)

While Anglo-Saxon was not as simple as some modern languages, it wasn't fragmented either. It had a strong grammatical system that was consistent and well-defined.