Grammar
Is English an analytical or synthetic language?”
Analytical language:
Explain the difference between an utterance and a sentence
an utterance is only spoken
a sentence can be spoken and written
what is the basic unit of the language system?
The word is the basic unit of the language system, t
What does "notion" mean?
Notion means a concept, idea, or mental representation of something.
What do morphology and syntax study?”
Morphology-It is concerned with the structure of words and their relationship to other words
Syntax-Syntax deals with the sentence, different types of sentence and their meanings.
Explain the distinction between language and speech
Language is a collective body of knowledge, it is a set of basic elements, but these elements can form a great variety of combinations.
Speech is individual, personal while language is common for all individuals.
“What are root morphemes and affixational morphemes?”
The main part of the word that carries the core meaning
Affixational morphemes (affixes)
What does "substance" mean?
What is grammar and what's the difference between practical grammar and theoretical grammar?
1. Theoretical grammar-This is the study of grammar as a system.Focuses on rules, structures, and analysis.Explains how language works
2. Practical grammar-This is the use of grammar in real communication.Focuses on using grammar correctly in speaking and writing
Are interjections notional words or functional words?
Notional words
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What does "inanimate" mean?
Inanimate means not alive; without life.
Does the sentence ‘Is reading student the happy book a’ contain a syntagmatic or paradigmatic mistake?
“Is reading student the happy book a” contains a syntagmatic mistake.
These are relationships between words in a sentence (in a sequence).
What are the grammatical categories of nouns?
1.Number (singular\plural),
2.Case (possessive case)
What are the criteria of parts of speech?”
the meaning common to all the words of the given class (semantics)
the form with the morphological characteristics of a type of word (morphological)
and the function in the sentence typical of all the words of this class (syntax)
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Explain the lexical and grammatical meaning of the word "dog"
Lexical meaning
Grammatical meaning
The grammatical meaning can be explicit and implicit.
Give examples to explain
cats,fish
“What does inflectional changing of a word mean?”
Inflection is the change in the form of a word to express its grammatical features, such as tense, number, case, person, or degree,
What does the word "carnivore " mean?
an animal that eats meat