10 Questions
Describe present-day Standard English.
Present-day Standard English is a form of speech and writing used in public discourse, including broadcasting, education, entertainment, government, and news, over a range of registers, from formal to informal.
How has Modern English changed from Indo-European in terms of inflectional case system?
Modern English has largely abandoned the inflectional case system of Indo-European in favor of analytic constructions.
What is English grammar?
English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language, including the structure of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and whole texts.
Which word class retains morphological case more strongly than any other in Modern English?
The personal pronouns retain morphological case more strongly than any other word class.
What are some areas where divergences from the described grammar may occur?
Divergences from the grammar described here occur in some historical, social, cultural, and regional varieties of English, although these are more minor than differences in pronunciation and vocabulary.
Which branch of science studies formal systems governed by axioms and rules?
Formal sciences
What distinguishes the applied sciences from other science disciplines?
They use scientific knowledge for practical purposes
Which historical period marks the earliest written records of identifiable predecessors to modern science?
Bronze Age Egypt and Mesopotamia
What characterizes the natural sciences?
Reliance on empirical evidence
Why is there disagreement about whether the formal sciences are science disciplines?
They do not rely on empirical evidence
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