The link below will take you to the OE/PDE version of Moses parting the Red Sea.  If you take on this assignment, I suggest
you print two or three of them (it should print out as one page).  You may also just do it on-screen.  That is up to you.

Also up to you is how much you do.  I think you will start seeing things more clearly after only part of the exercises are
complete.  Do as much or little as you like.

I think these exercises can bridge (with out shaking) the gap between getting it an not getting it.  Please take this opportunity to explore the synthetic nature of OE.

Look  for the following in the sample:

     Noun Phrases

           Hint: You should only need to determine one word; the rest of the words in the phrase should agree, and
               you should only need to confirm those.
           Hint: You may find that the demonstrative pronoun is the most telling clue. 
Note the astonishing correspondence between the words and the phrasal and clausal syntactic patterns between the OE and
PDE versions of this story.  It's not at all difficult to see how the underpinnings of PDE were fully in place during the OE period.
 

http://www.wtamu.edu/academic/fah/eng/wc/OEsea.htm