English Grammar Overview Quiz
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What are the eight word classes or parts of speech commonly distinguished in English?

  • Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, adjectives, pronouns
  • Nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, determiners, adverbs
  • Nouns, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, determiners, pronouns, verbs, prepositions
  • Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, determiners, prepositions (correct)
  • What has modern English largely abandoned in favor of analytic constructions?

  • Possessive case system
  • Saxon genitive system
  • Word order system
  • Inflectional case system (correct)
  • Which structure of the English language includes words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and whole texts?

  • Syntactic structure (correct)
  • Lexical structure
  • Morphological structure
  • Semantic structure
  • What is indicated by word order, prepositions, and the 'Saxon genitive or English possessive' (-'s) in English?

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    Which word class forms the largest class in English?

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