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Which word class forms the largest in English?
Which word class forms the largest in English?
- Adverbs
- Adjectives
- Nouns (correct)
- Verbs
What has Modern English largely abandoned from Indo-European?
What has Modern English largely abandoned from Indo-European?
- Prepositions
- Inflectional case system (correct)
- Word order
- Conjunctions
What retains morphological case more strongly than any other word class in Modern English?
What retains morphological case more strongly than any other word class in Modern English?
- Nouns
- Adjectives
- Personal pronouns (correct)
- Verbs
What is used to indicate grammatical function for nouns, adjectives, and articles in English?
What is used to indicate grammatical function for nouns, adjectives, and articles in English?
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What is the form of speech and writing used in public discourse, including broadcasting, education, and news?
What is the form of speech and writing used in public discourse, including broadcasting, education, and news?
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Study Notes
English Word Classes
- Nouns form the largest word class in English, encompassing a wide variety of entities, concepts, and phenomena.
Historical Linguistics
- Modern English has largely abandoned the complex inflectional system present in Indo-European languages, simplifying grammatical structures over time.
Morphological Case
- Pronouns retain morphological case more strongly than other word classes in Modern English, exhibiting distinct forms for subjective, objective, and possessive cases.
Grammatical Function Indicators
- Prepositions are used to indicate grammatical function for nouns, adjectives, and articles in English, facilitating sentence structure and meaning through relationships between words.
Varieties of English
- Standard English is the form of speech and writing used in public discourse, encompassing broadcasting, education, and news, promoting clarity and uniformity in communication.
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