1. Old English like modern German, French, Russian and Greek, had many inflections to show singular and plural, tense, person, didn't it?
2/ Do verbs now have very few inflections?
3/ And adjectives do not change according to the noun, do they?
4/ Why has English become, over the past five centuries a very flexible language?
5/ Without inflections, the same word can operate as many different parts of speech, can't it?
6/ Can we can talk about water to drink and to water the flowers; time to go and to time a race; a paper to read and to paper a bedroom?
7/ Is a sixty-year old man inearing retirement; we can talk about a round of golf, cards or drinks?
8/ What has contributed some words to English at some time, and the process is now being reversed?
9/ Is English the most widespread language on the Earth, second only to Mandarin Chinese in the number of people who speak it?
10/ Is it the language of business, technology, aviation and sport?