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by zerb 2881 days ago
It seems there's a general trend in the development of English to remove tenses and moods in favor of instead more-strictly prescribing word order.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_language

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Yep, and in a lot of other Indo-European languages as well. However, it's not a constant trend across languages as Finnish and Estonian both have more cases than their ancestor language did. It's likely that English will circle back around and start becoming less analytic as time goes on due to various things such as grammaticalization.