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What are the two largest word classes in English?
What are the two largest word classes in English?
- Nouns and adjectives
- Verbs and adjectives
- Adjectives and adverbs
- Nouns and verbs (correct)
How is grammatical function indicated for nouns, adjectives, and articles in English?
How is grammatical function indicated for nouns, adjectives, and articles in English?
- Through determiners and pronouns
- By adverbs and conjunctions
- Word order, prepositions, and 'Saxon genitive or English possessive' (-'s) (correct)
- Inflectional case system
What has Modern English largely abandoned from Indo-European?
What has Modern English largely abandoned from Indo-European?
- Inflectional case system (correct)
- Word order rules
- Morphological case for nouns
- Analytic constructions
Which language feature retains morphological case more strongly than any other word class in Modern English?
Which language feature retains morphological case more strongly than any other word class in Modern English?
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In what way do nouns in English differ from nouns in many other Indo-European languages?
In what way do nouns in English differ from nouns in many other Indo-European languages?
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