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The morphosyntactic analysis of the English language requires understanding how word forms are adjusted to satisfy grammatical relationships. Mark the CORRECT alternative.

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D) In the English verbal system, the suffix "-ed" acts as a marker for both the simple past and the past participle of regular verbs, while the third person singular in the present simple is typically marked by the suffix "-s" or "-es".

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A) Collective nouns in British English, such as "team" or "government", are strictly prohibited from taking a plural verb agreement, regardless of the speaker's emphasis on the individual members.

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B) Modal verbs like "must" and "should" undergo morphological changes in the third person singular, receiving the same "-s" inflection as regular lexical verbs in the present tense.

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C) Adjectives in English must agree in number and gender with the nouns they modify, requiring the addition of a plural suffix when the noun phrase refers to more than one entity.

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