English language

Grammar

English grammar is based on its Germanic roots, though some scholars during the 1700s and 1800s attempted to impose Latin grammar upon it, with little success. English is just slightly inflected, much less so than most Indo-European languages. It compensates for this by placing more grammatical information in auxiliary words and word order. Unlike most other Indo-European languages, nominal groups (nouns) in English do not carry gender.

Related Topics:
1700 - 1800 - Latin - Inflected - Indo-European - Indo-European languages

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