numerals
why is the grammatical categorization of numerals controversial?
The categorization is controversial because linguists disagree on whether numerals should be treated as a special class of function words or as belonging to the notional (content/lexical) parts of speech.
What is proper nouns?
Nouns that are names of specific persons or things
Verbs are words that represent actions that are ____ and ____
external and internal
What is the main syntactic function of an adverb in a sentence?
Adverbial modifier.
What is the categorical meaning of numerals?
The categorical meaning of numerals is number.
Noun can be characterized by these criteries:
semantic, morphological, syntactical
Name types of verbs
Dynamic, Stative, Auxiliary, Phrasal
What are the three main semantic classes of adverbs?
Qualitative, quantitative, and circumstantial.
What are the three main structural types of numerals?
The three main structural types are:
Structurally simple forms: e.g., two, hundred.
Derived forms: e.g., thirteen, fifth.
Compound forms: e.g., twenty-five.
Name noun cases and explain how they are formed
Common and genitive case. Common case has no endings. The genitive case is formed by adding "-s" to the stem of singular or apostrophe - to the plural stem
What is "helping verbs" and when are they used?
Helping verbs or Auxiliary verbs are used in english to change another verb's tense, mood or voice
Besides the suffix -ly, what are two other ways adverbs can be formed structurally?
Non-derived (simple)
Composite/phrasal
List the syntactic functions (roles) that numerals can perform in a sentence.
Numerals can function as an attribute, a subject, an object, and a predicative (following a link-verb).
Syntactically nouns can function in the sentence as: ___ and give own examples
subject, object, predicative, attribute, adverbial modifiers.
How dynamic verbs can also be called? And give examples
Action or event verbs.
What are the two types of circumstantial adverbs, and how do they differ?
Functional: pronominal words used as connectives (when, where). Notional: independent words of time and place (today, far).
Provide a sentence from the text where a numeral acts as an object.
own example
The scope of meanings rendered by the Genitive Case is the following __
1.Possessive, 2.Subjective, 3.Objective, 4. Genitive of origin, 5.Descriptive, 6.measure and partitive, 7.appositive
Explain Stative verbs and Phrasal verbs and give examples
Stative verbs describe a subject's state or feeling, including things they like and don't like.
Phrasal verbs are phrases that act as individual verbs, often combining two or more words and changing their meaning.
Name three types of quantitative adverbs (degree adverbs) and give an example of each.
Intensifiers
Moderate degree
Low degree