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What are the eight word classes commonly distinguished in English?
What are the eight word classes 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.
What is a remnant of the more extensive Germanic case system of Old English in Modern English?
What is a remnant of the more extensive Germanic case system of Old English in Modern English?
The personal pronouns retain morphological case more strongly than any other word class.
How is grammatical function indicated for pronouns, nouns, adjectives, and articles in Modern English?
How is grammatical function indicated for pronouns, nouns, adjectives, and articles in Modern English?
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What is the largest word class in English?
What is the largest word class in English?
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