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Which word class is the largest in English grammar?
Which word class is the largest in English grammar?
- Verbs
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Nouns (correct)
What has modern English largely abandoned from the Indo-European language?
What has modern English largely abandoned from the Indo-European language?
- Word order
- Morphological case
- Analytic constructions
- Inflectional case system (correct)
How is grammatical function indicated for nouns, adjectives, and articles in English?
How is grammatical function indicated for nouns, adjectives, and articles in English?
- Inflectional case system
- Morphological case
- Word order and prepositions (correct)
- Saxon genitive or English possessive (-'s)
Which form of speech and writing does the article describe?
Which form of speech and writing does the article describe?
What retains morphological case more strongly than any other word class in Modern English?
What retains morphological case more strongly than any other word class in Modern English?