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Late Modern English (lModE) is characterised by comparatively few changes to the inventory of morphosyntactic variants (Denison 1998: 92–3). However, a great deal of linguistic change takes place in the period, as the frequencies and relative proportions of many linguistic features (e.g. the progressive and be vs. have as the perfect auxiliary with intransitive main verbs) change greatly between 1700 and 1900.