verb
What is a verb and what question does it answer in question?
A verb is a word that shows action or state. It answers the question “What does the subject do?” or “What is happening?“
They are playing football in the park.
What type of verb is used in this sentence?
dynamic verb: playing
the nouns has two cases. they are:
common and genitive case
What is a noun and what does it denote?
A noun is a part of speech that denotes a person, place, thing, idea or phenomenon.
She remembers his name clearly. What type of verb is used in this sentence?
Stative verb: remember
”every sentence needs at least 2 verbs”
is this statement correct?
no, only 1 needed
The scope of meanings rendered by the Genitive Case
7 genitive case
Name the main grammatical categories of the English noun.
The main grammatical categories of the noun are number and case.
What is the difference between regular and irregular verbs? Give one example of each.
Regular verbs form the past tense by adding -ed (play → played).
Irregular verbs change their form in the past tense (go → went).
types of verbs:
dynamic, stative, auxiliary, phrasal verbs
Syntactically nouns can function in the sentence as:
subject,object,predicative,attribute,adverbial modifies
Explain the grammatical category of number in English nouns. How is it expressed?
The category of number shows the opposition between singular and plural. It is mainly expressed by the ending -s or -es, and in some irregular forms like men, children, etc.
Functional characteristics of lexical (full) verbs
They have independent lexical meaning. They name actions, processes, or states. They can function as the main predicate of a sentence.
say the definition of phrasal verbs
phrasal verbs are phrases that act as individual verbs, often combining two ore more words and changing their meaning.
the noun can be characterised by three criteria:
semantic,morphological,syntactical
What are the two main grammatical categories of the English noun?
The two main grammatical categories of the English noun are:
Number and Case.