12. Inflections

Question 1

Analytic language

Answer 1

A language which uses word order to express grammatical relationships

Question 2

Conjugation

Answer 2

Inflection of verbs; class of verbs inflected in the same manner

Question 3

Declension

Answer 3

The inflection of nouns; a class of nouns inflected in the same manner

Question 4

Imperative mood

Answer 4

Verb form used to indicate a command or instruction

Question 5

Indicative mood

Answer 5

Verb form used in statements and questions

Question 6

Subjunctive mood

Answer 6

Verb form indicating desire, supposition, or a situation contrary to fact or which may or may not exist

Question 7

Synthetic language

Answer 7

A language that uses inflections to communicate grammatical relationships

Question 8

Verbal

Answer 8

A word or phrase formed from a verb and acting as a noun or adjective; a participle, infinitive, or gerund

Question 9

Latin was a ___ language

Answer 9

Synthetic

Question 10

Latin is grammatically similar to?

Answer 10

Old English

Question 11

Old English was?

Answer 11

Synthetic

Question 12

Modern English is?

Answer 12

Analytic

Question 13

Old English shared four of latin’s cases:?

Answer 13

Nominative
Genitive (possessive)
Dative (indirect object)
Accusative (direct object)

Question 14

Old English evolved and lost?

Answer 14

Its inflections

Question 15

Latin also evolved and now on in?

Answer 15

Romance languages

Question 16

Languages that resulted from independent development of Latin dialects?

Answer 16

French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese

Question 17

One function of inflections is to show?

Answer 17

Gender and case of nouns and adjectives

Question 18

Case shows ___ of noun in a sentence

Answer 18

Function

Question 19

Old English declined its?

Answer 19

Nouns

Question 20

In Latin, ____ reflected gender and case of the modified noun

Answer 20

Adjective

Question 21

Old English had ___ variety of endings for adjectives than nouns

Answer 21

Greater

Question 22

Tense tells us?

Answer 22

When an action occurs (past, present, future) and whether it is habitual or occurring at a given moment

Question 23

Perfect tenses denote an action or state as?

Answer 23

Completed at the moment of speaking

Question 24

Always use ‘were’ rather than ‘was’ when?

Answer 24

Using verb ‘to be’ in subjunctive

Question 25

What class of words in Modern English retains grammatical gender?

Answer 25

Personal pronouns

Question 26

Pronouns use apostrophes to indicate possession? (True/false)

Answer 26

False

Question 27

In Modern English the subjunctive mood can be shown in various ways?

Answer 27

By a plural verb with a singular subject or by use of ‘be’ for am, is, or are