sentences:  Some traits typical of Germanic languages persist in English, such as the distinction between irregularly inflected strong stems inflected through ablaut (i.e.changing the vowel of the stem, as in the pairs "speak/spoke" and "foot/feet") and weak stems inflected through affixation (such as "love/loved", "hand/hands").Vestiges of the case and gender system are found in the pronoun system ("he/him, who/whom") and in the inflection of the copula verb "to be".