exam Flashcards
-en
past participle
-ing
progressive participle
Aux verbs
establishes verb tense
BE, HAVE, DO
Prepositions
place, time, movement
examples: in, on, at, with, for, from, to, about
conj
links ideas
types of subordinate clauses
-adverbial
-complement
-relative
types of non-finite clauses
to-infinitive
-ing participle
en/ed past participle
bare infinitive
clause types
exclamative
wh- interrogative
imperative
yes-no interrogative
declarative
active to passive
-object NP of a clause becomes subject NP of p clause.
-insert an appropriate form of BE
-insert past participle (-en) form of lexical verb
-move subject NP of active clause to end of passive clause to for PP with by as the preposition.
active: I ate some biscuits
passive: some biscuits were eaten by me.
form negative clauses
auxiliary verb present: insert <not> or <n't> between aux and lexical.</not>
lexical verb only: insert dummy aux DO then place <not> or <n't> between DO and lexical.</not>
finite and non-finite
finite:
- simple present
-simple past
non-finite:
- infinitive (bare and to-)
-progressive participle
-past participle
suffixation vs Distribution
suffixation: inflection bound morphemes
distribution: look for position in the sentence and what words surround it.