Morphosyntax Flashcards
Give examples of indefinite pronouns?
no one, someone, anyone, everyone, nobody, anybody, every-body, nothing, something, anything, everything
Give examples of demonstrative pronouns?
this, that,these, those
Difference between relative pronoun and interrogative pronoun?
Relative pronouns don’t form a question.
Who was that man?
Vs The man who ate my sandwich is sitting over there.
what’s the difference between these two adjective structures: Attributive and Predicative?
Attributive, in everyday English occurs before the noun e.g. The black dog chewed the bone.
He is a black dog.
Predicative, in everyday English occurs after the noun e.g. The dog is black.
Does adding -ly turn the adjective to an adverb?
Do adverbs modify verbs, adjectives & other adverbs?
Yes
In STASS what does ‘V Part’ refer to?
Preposition occurring with a verb such as ‘switch off’ or ‘turn on’
She crossed her name out
She crossed out her name
First person plural subjective pronoun?
First person plural objective pronoun?
subjective- we
objective- us
Third person plural
Subjective?
Objective?
subjective- they
objective- them
First person singular subjective?
3rd person singular subjective?
1st person singular subjective-
I
3rd person singular subjective- he/she/it
Give me examples of dummy auxiliaries?
the verb DO ( do, does, doing, did)
Give me examples of primary auxiliaries?
The verb BE ( am, is, are,was,were,been,being)
The verb HAVE (have,has,had,having)
are more, most, less and least adverbs?
yes they can be used as adverbs modifying adjectives or other adverbs.
She was more than happy.
She was the least happiest in the party.
Intensifiers in STASS recorded as?
Int X
e.g. very, extremely
If an -ly is added to a noun is the resulting word an adjective or adverb?
ADJECTIVE
