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English was brought from the Continent by Germanic tribes who had no form of writing and hence left no records.  Philologists know that they must have spoken a dialect of a language that can be called West Germanic and that other dialects of this unknown language must have included the ancestors of such languages as German, Dutch, Low German, and Frisian. Still earlier, Germanic was just a dialect of a language conventionally designated Indo European, and thus English is just one relatively young member of an ancient family of languages whose descendants cover a fair portion of the globe.

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As English came into contact with other cultures around the world and distinctive dialects of English developed in the many areas which Britain had colonized, numerous other languages made small but interesting contributions to the word-stock

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The period of Modern English extends from the sixteenth century to our own day. The early part of this period saw the completion of a revolution in the phonology of English that had begun in late Middle English and that effectively redistributed the occurrence of the vowel phonemes to something approximating their present pattern.

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In general word order is now very close to that of our time, though the present tense verbs still receive a plural inflection. The number of inflections for nouns, adjectives, and verbs has been greatly reduced, and is closer to Modern than to Old English.

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The period of Middle English extends from the twelfth century through the fifteenth. The influence of French (and Latin, often by way of French) upon the lexicon continued throughout this period, the loss of some inflections and the reduction of others accelerated, and many changes took place within the phonological and grammatical systems of the language.

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Main difference between Old and Modern English 

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Main difference between Old and Modern English 

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In my opinion, the most distinctive difference is the elaborate system of inflections. Nouns, adjectives, and even the definite article are inflected for gender, case, and number: ðære ðeode "(of) the people" is feminine, genitive, and singular, Angle "Angles" is masculine, accusative, and plural, and swilcum "such" is masculine, dative, and plural.

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The earliest period begins with the migration of certain Germanic tribes from the continent to Britain in the fifth century A.D..

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The history of English is conventionally,divided into three periods usually called Old English (or Anglo-Saxon, Middle English,and Modern English.