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Which word class is the largest in English grammar?
Which word class is the largest in English grammar?
- Adjectives
- Verbs
- Nouns (correct)
- Adverbs
What has Modern English largely abandoned from Indo-European?
What has Modern English largely abandoned from Indo-European?
- Inflectional case system (correct)
- Analytic constructions
- Word order
- Morphological case
How is grammatical function indicated for nouns, adjectives, and articles in English?
How is grammatical function indicated for nouns, adjectives, and articles in English?
- Morphological case and inflection
- 'Saxon genitive or English possessive' (-'s)
- Conjunctions
- Word order and prepositions (correct)
Which form of speech and writing is used in public discourse in present-day Standard English?
Which form of speech and writing is used in public discourse in present-day Standard English?
'Saxon genitive or English possessive' (-'s) is used to indicate grammatical function for which word class?
'Saxon genitive or English possessive' (-'s) is used to indicate grammatical function for which word class?