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Which word class is the largest in English?
Which word class is the largest in English?
- Nouns (correct)
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Verbs
What indicates grammatical function for nouns, adjectives, and articles in English?
What indicates grammatical function for nouns, adjectives, and articles in English?
- Conjunctions
- Prepositions (correct)
- Word order
- Inflectional case system
Which language system has Modern English largely abandoned?
Which language system has Modern English largely abandoned?
- Analytic constructions
- Saxon genitive system
- Germanic case system (correct)
- Indo-European gender system
What is a remnant of the more extensive Germanic case system of Old English?
What is a remnant of the more extensive Germanic case system of Old English?
What has largely replaced the inflectional case system of Indo-European in Modern English?
What has largely replaced the inflectional case system of Indo-European in Modern English?