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What are the eight word classes or parts of speech commonly distinguished in English?
What are the eight word classes or parts of speech commonly distinguished in English?
Nouns, determiners, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions.
What has modern English largely abandoned in favor of analytic constructions?
What has modern English largely abandoned in favor of analytic constructions?
The inflectional case system of Indo-European.
In what ways is grammatical function indicated for pronouns, nouns, adjectives, and articles in Modern English?
In what ways is grammatical function indicated for pronouns, nouns, adjectives, and articles in Modern English?
Grammatical function is indicated by word order, prepositions, and by the 'Saxon genitive or English possessive' (-'s).
What is described as a generalized, present-day Standard English in the text?
What is described as a generalized, present-day Standard English in the text?
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What is the remnant of the more extensive Germanic case system of Old English in Modern English?
What is the remnant of the more extensive Germanic case system of Old English in Modern English?
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