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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 from the Indo-European language?
What has modern English largely abandoned from the Indo-European language?
The inflectional case system.
What is indicated by word order, prepositions, and the 'Saxon genitive or English possessive' (-'s) in English?
What is indicated by word order, prepositions, and the 'Saxon genitive or English possessive' (-'s) in English?
Grammatical function for pronouns, nouns, adjectives, and articles.
In what areas do divergences from the grammar described in the article occur?
In what areas do divergences from the grammar described in the article occur?
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What retains morphological case more strongly than any other word class in English?
What retains morphological case more strongly than any other word class in English?
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