English Grammar Challenge
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What is the present-day Standard English used in?

  • Private conversations and informal writing
  • Formal academic research only
  • Historical and regional varieties of English
  • Public discourse, including broadcasting, education, entertainment, government, and news (correct)

    • What has modern English largely abandoned from Indo-European?

  • Inflectional case system (correct)
  • Verb conjugations
  • Noun declensions
  • Word order

    • Which word class retains morphological case more strongly than any other in modern English?

  • Adjectives
  • Personal pronouns (correct)
  • Nouns
  • Verbs

    • How is grammatical function indicated for nouns, adjectives, and articles in modern English?

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    What are the divergences from the grammar described in the text related to?

    <p>Historical, social, cultural, and regional varieties of English</p> Signup and view all the answers

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