Rearrange the following numbered sentences so that they will read logically. Put the numbers in proper sequence in the boxes provided below. ① They dressed in animal skins, lived in caves or rude wooden huts, and had their own languages. ② The English language we speak today went through three stages — Old English, Middle English and Modem English. ③ During the Stone Age, some Indo-European people lived on the islands of Britain. ④ The earliest known of these British Indo-Europeans split into two groups called the Scots and the Celts. ⑤ But ages before Old English came into being, many other languages had to arise and develop. ⑥ Together these three peoples are known as Britons. ⑦ There was another group, who were not Indo-Europeans, called Picts. ⑧ The oldest of these, as far as we know, was the Indo-European family of languages, which were beginning to be spoken during the Stone Age. ⑧ ④ ⑥
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