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Instead of “a ship ” and “a car” and “ love” which pronoun can be used?
A car and a ship = she
Love=he
Types of nouns?
Common and proper
Which words don’t admit new words?
Closed classes
Noun can name also abstract ideas give an example?
Love, hate
What is a proper noun?
Name of specific things
What is appositive nouns?
Noun or noun phrases that renames another noun next to it
🥳
🥳
Most crucial part of the speech? And why?
Verb because main meaning can be understood by the meaning of the verb
How many aspects of gender identity and expression of noun and count them
Neutral masculine feminine
What is indefinite noun
Refers to non specific items or individuals
I have a big garden, I water___ flower there.
Which one is suitable each or every?
Every
What is a collective noun?
Refers to group of individuals or things
Flock what kind of noun is it
Collective noun
Which class have limited membership and include only functional words?
Closed classes
Count Indeclinable words?
adverbs, prepositions
conjunctions, interjections,
articles
What is a meaning of suffix “-ion”
A process and state or result
What is a property of verbs, and relates to the speaker's feelings about the reality of what he is saying.
Mood
Henry Sweet speaks of three principles of
classification, what are they?
form, meaning, and function.
Who was the first linguist to pay attention to some of function words (form-classes) peculiarities.
Charles Fries
What is a property of gradable adjectives and adverbs, and indicates amount?
Degree
What is inflection?
Morphemic changes with the addition of suffixes and morphological means
According to whose theory cases divided into 2groups?
Henry Sweet
Otto Jesperson
Difference between ‘s and the ….of ?
‘S for animals/people
The…of for only items
What is semantic agreement?
It is an agreement that agrees with the subject not grammatically but semantically
Prescriptive grammarians treated which language as an ideal language is?
Latin