parts of speech

Question 1

how do we identify the part of the speech of a word in a particular sentence

Answer 1

process of elimination and use multiple cues to pick out patterns

Question 2

what does AUX, PRON, PREP, D, ADJ, N stand for?

Answer 2

auxiliary verb, pronoun, preposition, determiner adjective and noun

Question 3

What are function words?

Answer 3

Also known as closed word class/grammatical words because words belonging to this group have a grammatical role. e.g. determiner, pronouns, preposition, auxiliary verb and conjuctions

Question 4

What are content words?

Answer 4

Also known as open word class/lexical words because words belonging to this group modify meaning. e.g. noun full verb, adjective and adverb

Question 5

what form biased criteria is useful for identifying parts of speech?

Answer 5

suffixation-word endings (some are specific to nouns, verbs etc)
distribution-refers to the other words that occur in the context of the word whose part of speech we are trying to determine (pattern identification)

Question 6

why are determiners helpful in identifying parts of speech?

Answer 6

The often act as islands of reliability.
definite article-the
indefinite article-a/an

Question 7

How many types of determiners?

Answer 7

articles: the/ an/an
demonstratives: that, these this,those
possessives: my, your, his, her, its, our, their
quantifiers :many/some, several/few

Question 8

what words are always determiners

Answer 8

a, an, your, its, our, their, and my. Others can belong to other words classes as well e.g. his/her pro or det?

Question 9

how to identify a determiner

Answer 9

Try substituting with another unambiguous determiner e.g. the/their without it becoming ungrammatically incorrect

Question 10

why are prepositions helpful in identifying parts of speech?

Answer 10

The often act as islands of reliability.

Question 11

when prepositions are used in multiword verbs e.g. phrasal verbs what do we call the PREPS

Answer 11

Particles