English Grammar Quiz
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What are the eight word classes commonly distinguished in English?

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

    • What has Modern English largely abandoned from Indo-European?

  • Morphological case
  • Inflectional case system (correct)
  • Analytic constructions
  • Germanic case system

    • What do personal pronouns retain more strongly than any other word class?

  • Inflectional case system
  • Morphological case (correct)
  • Germanic case system
  • Analytic constructions

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

    <p>Word order, prepositions, and the 'Saxon genitive or English possessive' (-'s)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the second-largest word class in English?

    <p>Verbs</p> Signup and view all the answers

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