Grammar - Determiners And Nouns Flashcards
Logic asks?
When is a sentence true
Rhetoric asks?
Which is the right sentence?
Grammar purely asks?
When is a sentence correct
….. …. carry the meaning of a sentence. The classes for these words are open, meaning new words are readily added. E.g new noun ……., meaning ‘one who eats locally grown food’
Content words
Locavore
Types of words where the classes are generally closed and very limited in number, rarely admitting new numbers?
Structure words - structure a sentence
Provide the demonstrative determiners:
This, that, these and those
Provide the possessive determiners:
My, your, his, her, its, our , their
Whose, whichever and whatever are types of:
Give example in sentence:
Relative determiners
You can do whatever you want
Case:
Whose, which and what are types of:
E.g What time did you arrive
Interrogative determiners
E.g they didn’t know whose car it was
Yusuf’s in the context of determiners are called:
S-Genitive
Case:
The horse ran is:
Nominative - Horse is the agent of the action
Case:
The horse’s stable:
The genitive - horse is possessor of another term
Case:
He gave something to the horse
Dative - horse is the receiver of something or indirect object of an action
Case:
She rode the horse
Accusative - horse is the direct object of an action
Case:
He fell from the horse:
Ablative - horse is the origin of the action
Case:
She rode the horse with a saddle
Instrumental - saddle is a tool of an action
Case:
He rode the horse on the track
Locative - on the track is the location of something
Case:
Oh horse
Case:
“I don’t know, John,”
“I don’t know John”
Vocative - horse is directly addressed
John is a vocative expression that indicates the party being addressed, as opposed to the sentence
“John” is the direct object of the verb “know” (accusative)
In English, declension (type of ….. for nouns, pronouns and adjectives), is limited to:
Singular v ……
Nominative v ……
And some nouns that take ….. forms. E.g prince and ……
Inflection Plural Genitive Gender Princess
Determiners are articles that …. Nouns
Modify
An owl is what type of noun (s)?
Animate, common
Milk is what type of noun (S)
Inanimate
Noncount (mass)
What type of nouns are words such as freedom, anger, happiness, glory?
Abstract
What type of noun is William Shakespeare or Asia?
Proper noun
Common nouns refer to general …..
Most have a …. and a …. form e.g. crab/crabs rose/roses, liberty/ liberties
entities
singular and plural
Count nouns denote things that can be ….; one person, two glasses, many problems, several books.
counted
Collective nouns define groups composed of individual members referred to ….; team, class, electorate, parliament, flock
collectively
Noncount (or mass) nouns refer to …. entities or constructs and are usually only expressed in ….. forms e.g. thunder, cotton, milk, luggage, hair
Inanimate
constructs
