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

  • Only in entertainment and news
  • Historical and regional varieties of English
  • Public discourse, including broadcasting, education, entertainment, government, and news (correct)
  • Private conversations and informal writing

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

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

    • Which word class retains morphological case more strongly in Modern English?

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

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

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    What are the divergences from the described grammar more minor than?

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