5 Questions
What is the present-day Standard English used in?
Public discourse, including broadcasting, education, entertainment, government, and news
What has modern English largely abandoned from Indo-European?
Inflectional case system
Which word class retains morphological case more strongly than any other in modern English?
Personal pronouns
How is grammatical function indicated for nouns, adjectives, and articles in modern English?
Only by word order
What are the divergences from the grammar described in the text related to?
Historical, social, cultural, and regional varieties of English
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