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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?
The inflectional case system of Indo-European.
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?
Grammatical function is indicated only by word order, by prepositions, and by the 'Saxon genitive or English possessive' (-'s).
What is the largest word class in English?
Nouns.
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