English Grammar Overview
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English Grammar Overview

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What are the eight word classes commonly distinguished in English?

  • Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and articles
  • Nouns, determiners, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions (correct)
  • Nouns, determiners, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, and articles
  • Nouns, adjectives, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and articles

    • Which system has Modern English largely abandoned in favor of analytic constructions?

  • Genitive case system of Indo-European
  • Inflectional case system of Indo-European (correct)
  • Analytic case system of Indo-European
  • Nominal case system of Indo-European

    • What indicates grammatical function for nouns, adjectives, and articles in English?

  • Inflectional endings
  • Word order and prepositions (correct)
  • Tone and stress patterns
  • 'Saxon genitive or English possessive' (-'s)

    • What retains morphological case more strongly than any other word class in Modern English?

    <p>Personal pronouns</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What has Modern English largely abandoned from the Germanic case system of Old English?

    <p>Inflectional case system</p> Signup and view all the answers

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