5 Questions
What are the eight word classes commonly distinguished in English?
Nouns, determiners, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions
Which system has Modern English largely abandoned in favor of analytic constructions?
Inflectional case system of Indo-European
What indicates grammatical function for nouns, adjectives, and articles in English?
Word order and prepositions
What retains morphological case more strongly than any other word class in Modern English?
Personal pronouns
What has Modern English largely abandoned from the Germanic case system of Old English?
Inflectional case system
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