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[/b][/i][/size][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_grammar][b][i][u][size=29][color:b7ad=#0000ff]English grammar[/b][/i][/u][/color][/size][/url][b][size=29]
English grammar has minimal [/b][/size][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflection][b][u][size=29][color:b7ad=#0000ff]inflection[/b][/u][/color][/size][/url][b][size=29] compared with most other [/b][/size][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages][b][u][size=29][color:b7ad=#0000ff]Indo-European languages[/b][/u][/color][/size][/url][b][size=29]. For example, Modern English, unlike Modern German or Dutch and the [/b][/size][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages][b][u][size=29][color:b7ad=#0000ff]Romance languages[/b][/u][/color][/size][/url][b][size=29], lacks [/b][/size][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender][b][u][size=29][color:b7ad=#0000ff]grammatical gender[/b][/u][/color][/size][/url][b][size=29] and [/b][/size][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreement_(linguistics)][b][u][size=29][color:b7ad=#0000ff]adjectival agreement[/b][/u][/color][/size][/url][b][size=29]. [/b][/size][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_case][b][u][size=29][color:b7ad=#0000ff]Case[/b][/u][/color][/size][/url][b][size=29] marking has almost disappeared from the language and mainly survives in [/b][/size][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronoun][b][u][size=29][color:b7ad=#0000ff]pronouns[/b][/u][/color][/size][/url][b][size=29]. The patterning of [/b][/size][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_inflection][b][u][size=29][color:b7ad=#0000ff]strong[/b][/u][/color][/size][/url][b][size=29] (e.g. [i]speak/spoke/spoken[/i]) versus [/b][/size][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_weak_verb][b][u][size=29][color:b7ad=#0000ff]weak verbs[/b][/u][/color][/size][/url][b][size=29] inherited from its Germanic origins has declined in importance in modern English, and the remnants of inflection (such as [/b][/size][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural][b][u][size=29][color:b7ad=#0000ff]plural[/b][/u][/color][/size][/url][b][size=29] marking) have become more regular.
At the same time, the language has become more [/b][/size][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolating_language][b][u][size=29][color:b7ad=#0000ff]analytic[/b][/u][/color][/size][/url][b][size=29], and has developed features such as [/b][/size][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_verb][b][u][size=29][color:b7ad=#0000ff]modal verbs[/b][/u][/color][/size][/url][b][size=29] and [/b][/size][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_order][b][u][size=29][color:b7ad=#0000ff]word order[/b][/u][/color][/size][/url][b][size=29] as resources for conveying meaning. [/b][/size][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary_verb][b][u][size=29][color:b7ad=#0000ff]Auxiliary verbs[/b][/u][/color][/size][/url][b][size=29] mark constructions such as questions, negative polarity, the [/b][/size][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_voice][b][u][size=29][color:b7ad=#0000ff]passive voice[/b][/u][/color][/size][/url][b][size=29] and progressive [/b][/size][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_aspect][b][u][size=29][color:b7ad=#0000ff]aspect[/b][/u][/color][/size][/url][b][size=29].
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