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English Grammar Overview
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English Grammar Overview

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What is the second-largest word class in English?

  • Determiners
  • Verbs (correct)
  • Adjectives
  • Pronouns
  • How is grammatical function indicated for nouns, adjectives, and articles in Modern English?

  • Word order and prepositions (correct)
  • Syllable stress
  • Conjugation
  • Inflectional case
  • Which language system did Modern English largely abandon in favor of analytic constructions?

  • Conjugational system
  • Tonal system
  • Inflectional case system of Indo-European (correct)
  • Syllabic structure
  • What retains morphological case more strongly than any other word class in Modern English?

    <p>'Saxon genitive or English possessive' (-'s)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How many 'word classes' or 'parts of speech' are commonly distinguished in English?

    <p>8</p> Signup and view all the answers

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