Closed-class words and open-class words 1.Open class words:or content words, to which new words can be regularly added 了 Nouns,verbs,adjectives,adverbs 了2.Closed class words:or“grammatical” or functional"words,to which new words are not usually added Conjunctions,prepositions,articles, pronouns
Closed-class words and open-class words 1. Open class words: or content words, to which new words can be regularly added Nouns, verbs, adjectives , adverbs 2. Closed class words: or “grammatical” or “functional”words, to which new words are not usually added Conjunctions, prepositions, articles, pronouns
Lesser categories Numerals Interjection cardinal numerals i.e.exclamation, i.e.one,two,one sorrow,surprise, hundred,three regret,etc. millions Oh, ordinal numerals My God! i.e.first,second, eighth,twenty-third Dear me!
Numerals cardinal numerals i.e. one, two, one hundred, three millions ordinal numerals i.e. first, second, eighth, twenty-third Interjection i.e. exclamation, sorrow, surprise, regret, etc. Oh, My God! Dear me! Lesser categories
dentifying Part of Speech Huddleston,R(1984).Introduction to the Grammar of English.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press The syntactic category of the word
Identifying Part of Speech Huddleston, R (1984). Introduction to the Grammar of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press The syntactic category of the word
For example The boy ate the mahak.(X) The boy will mahak it.(X) The boy feels very mahak.(V) Describing the part of speech of the word: Mahak is a noun; a verb; an adjective an adjective nipic.com/amyyangqian
For example The boy ate the mahak. (X) The boy will mahak it. (X) The boy feels very mahak. (V) Describing the part of speech of the word: Mahak is ______. a noun; a verb; an adjective an adjective
The Syntactic Category of the Word category Co-occur Co-occur Co-occur with a det. with an with a (a,the, auxiliary or a degree word every) tense/aspect (very,quite) (wil,时态， 语态) noun + 一 verb + adjective +
The Syntactic Category of the Word category Co-occur with a det. (a, the, every) Co-occur with an auxiliary or a tense/aspect (willl, 时态， 语态) Co-occur with a degree word (very, quite) noun + _ _ verb _ + _ adjective _ _ +