5 Questions
What are the two largest word classes in English?
Nouns and verbs
How is grammatical function indicated for nouns, adjectives, and articles in English?
Word order, prepositions, and 'Saxon genitive or English possessive' (-'s)
What has Modern English largely abandoned from Indo-European?
Inflectional case system
Which language feature retains morphological case more strongly than any other word class in Modern English?
Personal pronouns
In what way do nouns in English differ from nouns in many other Indo-European languages?
They do not have grammatical gender
Test your knowledge of the structural rules of the English language with this quiz. From words and phrases to clauses and whole texts, this quiz covers a range of grammar topics in present-day Standard English used in public discourse.
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