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===Numerals=== | ===Numerals=== | ||
====Units of measurement==== | |||
All unit words have paired imperial and metric meanings based on agreement with the noun they modify, imperial for American nouns and metric for British nouns. | |||
===Classifiers=== | |||
Classifiers are optional in informal speech, but in formal speech must precede nouns when modified by ''no'' or a numeral. Classifiers can also be applied to unmodified nouns as honorifics. | |||
===Derivational morphology=== | ===Derivational morphology=== | ||
====Part-of-speech modifiers==== | ====Part-of-speech modifiers==== | ||