Major Flashcards
Can be: -ing, -ed, -PT s, -en
Occurs after nouns, adverbs, and infinitive ‘to’
Verbs (syntactic)
Plural S, poss. S, not all can be pluralized, occurs after determiner
-ion
Nouns (syntactic)
Modified by very, -er, -est, -ly
Adjectives
Words that modify adj/man adv
-very
Intensifier
Modify verbs... Eagerly Reluctantly Virtually Almost Slowly
Manor adverb
Very reluctant
Int MA
In a ___ manner
Modifies sentence
Test: it is ____ sentence
Obviously I lost my homework
It I obvious that I lost my homework
Sentence adverb
Modify verbs and come from nouns Linguistically Geographically Mathematically From the perspective of\_\_\_ linguistics...
Denominal adverbs
Cannot be in the progressive state (-ing)
State verbs
Can in the progressive state -ing
Activity verbs
Has a built in end point
Consume
Evaporate
Recover
Telic verbs
No built in end point
Talk
Sit
Atelic verbs
Requires direct object(s)
Design
Imagine
Transitive verbs
Meaning is the Referent
Does not occur with articles
Doesn’t take plural -s
Proper nouns
Kentucky
Sym. Class
Requires determiner/article
Takes the plural -s
Common nouns
My foot-feet
The chair-chairs
