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Trang 1E_English Grammar Course
Chapter I Elements of grammar
Trang 21 Introduction to Grammar
2 Morphemes and Words
3 Ways of word formation
4 Parts of speech
5 Parts of a sentence
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Grammar
In global sense
In narrow sense
• equals competence, a body of knowledge that a
native speaker has about his/her language which enables him/her to speak and understand it
• includes word and sentence structure rules, pronunciation rules, meaning of words/ sentences,
• equals competence, a body of knowledge that a
native speaker has about his/her language which enables him/her to speak and understand it
• includes word and sentence structure rules, pronunciation rules, meaning of words/ sentences,
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Trang 6Morphemes and Words
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I actually felt tired of
sitting doing nothing
And I hated enjoying
the unemployment
benefit I found myself
useless Then I decided
to look for a job
I found myself useless
hated enjoying
hated, enjoying
enjoy, -ing
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Trang 8Lexical item – meaning
LEXICAL ITEM = A basic unit of meaning …
• A single word
(E.g.: man, boy)
• Less than a word
(E.g.: terr in terror)
• More than one word
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LEXICAL ITEM & MEANING
Lexical item and meaning has arbitrary relationship
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WORD = An independent meaningful unit.
E.g.: try
boy turn return
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Free (words)
Bound (affixes) Grammatical Function words:
prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions
inflectional (suffixes)
Lexical Content words:
Nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives
derivational (prefixes, suffixes)
Types of morphemes
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Trang 13Inflectional morphemes Derivational morphemes
Inflectional vs Derivational morphemes
modify the meaning of an
item but not change its parts
of speech.
can change meaning of the stem and typically, they change the part of speech.
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Trang 14Inflectional morphemes Derivational morphemes
Inflectional vs Derivational morphemes
are changes in words to
express their semantic and
syntactic relationships to
other words in the sentence.
E.g.: ‘-s’ in ‘Bush says’
indicates the present tense
and the subject is third
person and singular.
indicate semantic relationships within words.
E.g.: the morpheme ‘-ful’ in
‘beautiful’ has no connection with other morphemes
beyond the word.
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Inflectional vs Derivational morphemes
are regularly distributed
They occur with all or most
members of a word class.
E.g.: ‘-s’ (3rd person
singular present) occurs
with most verbs.
do not occur across whole
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Inflectional vs Derivational morphemes
typically occur away from
the root
E.g.: the plural morpheme
‘-s’ occurs at the end of a
word, after all other
morphemes.
occur close to the root, before inflectional morphemes.
E.g.: organizations.
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Inflectional vs Derivational morphemes
-s : 3rd person singular
present
-ed : past tense
-ing : present participle
-en : past participle
suffixes.
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Trang 18Inflectional vs Derivational morphemes
• Work in groups of 3
• Each group make a list of 5 inflectional
and 5 derivational morphemes
• What are their meanings?
• The fastest group win the game
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Trang 19Prefixation: adding a prefix to the base
Trang 20Suffixation: adding a suffix to the base
Trang 21Conversion: a change of word-classes
Trang 22Compounding: word formation from two or
Trang 23Clipping: shortening a word
E.g.: Phone from telephone
Photo from photograph Flu from influenza
Morphological processes of word
formation
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Trang 24Reduplication: word formation from two or
more either identical or slightly different elements
E.g.: Goody-goody
Tick-tock Seesaw Wishy-washy
Morphological processes of word
formation
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Trang 25Blending: word formation from two
Trang 26Acronym: word formation from initial
letters of a series of words.
E.g.: TV from television
FAQ from frequently
asked question.
Morphological processes of word
formation
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Trang 27E.g.: boss, piano
E.g.: opt (option)
Trang 28Morphological processes of word
formation
3
• Each student receives an affix
• Group yourselves into prefixes and
suffixes
• Each student gives an example of
his/her affix
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Parts of speech
4
• comprises functional words such as
articles, demonstratives, pronouns prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections
• comprises functional words such as
articles, demonstratives, pronouns prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections
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Parts of speech
4
• comprises notional/ lexical words
such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and
adverbs
• comprises notional/ lexical words
such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and
adverbs
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• stressed words in spoken language
Features:
• extendable number of members
• combinability
• having certain syntactic functions
• stressed words in spoken language
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• Decide if the following words belong to
closed-system or open class
blue head the that summarize which
open open closed closed open closed
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E.g.: Her parents visit her sick uncle
every day.
What is being discussed – theme.
E.g.: Her parents visit her sick uncle
every day.
Trang 37What is being said about the subject – rheme.
E.g.: Her parents visit her sick uncle every day.
What is being said about the subject – rheme.
E.g.: Her parents visit her sick uncle every day.
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Trang 39• include BE & HAVE
E.g.: I am a student and I have a part-time job
• include BE & HAVE
E.g.: I am a student and I have a part-time job
• include BE & HAVE
• include will, shall,
should, can, might, etc
E.g.: I can cook
• include will, shall,
should, can, might, etc
E.g.: I can cook
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Sentence elements
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Subject Verb Object Complement
See more in 2.10
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Sentence elements
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Subject Verb Object Complement Adverbial
indirect (Oi) direct (Od)
E.g.: He sent me (Oi) a postcard (Od).
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Trang 42Parts of a sentence
Sentence elements
5
Subject Verb Object Complement
E.g.: His brother who is a teacher (Cs) considers me his best friend (Co).
E.g.: His brother who is a teacher (Cs) considers me his best friend (Co).
Object Complement (Co) Subject Complement (Cs)
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Sentence elements
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Subject Verb Object Complement Adverbial
E.g.: He goes fishing on Tuesday (A opt) His birthday is on Tuesday (A obli)
E.g.: He goes fishing on Tuesday (A opt) His birthday is on Tuesday (A obli)
obligatory optional
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Sentence elements
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Subject Verb Object Complement
Intensive
Extensive
+ Cs (1)
+ A (obli) (2)
intransitive (3) transitive
mono-transitive
(4)
complex-transitive
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Sentence elements
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Subject Verb Object Complement Adverbial
He put the vase on
(7)
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Sentence elements
5
Subject Verb Object Complement
Stative
Dynamic
Not progressive form
Progressive form
E.g.: The food he cooked tasted very good
E.g.: She is tasting the food he’s cooked
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sentences Syntax
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sentences Syntax
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Sentence
Adverb phrase Adjective phrase Verb phrase
E.g.: John has been looking for Jane.
E.g.: Tom is a very interesting man.
E.g.: He ran quite fast.
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sentences Syntax
elements & verb patterns In terms of kinds of verb phrases
In terms of kinds of verb
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sentences Syntax
elements & verb patterns In terms of kinds of verb phrases
In terms of kinds of verb
• SVO: John has cured many serious patients
• SVOO: He gives his patients the same
prescription
• SVOA: He put the prescription in a secret file
• SVA: John is at home
• SVCs: John is a doctor
• SVO: John has cured many serious patients
• SVOO: He gives his patients the same
prescription
• SVOA: He put the prescription in a secret file
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sentences Syntax
elements & verb patterns In terms of kinds of verb phrases
In terms of kinds of verb
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sentences Syntax
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sentences Syntax
Simple
E.g.: All these books are mine
E.g.: He was watching T.V and she was cooking
E.g.: He didn’t want to talk to whoever he met in
the London workshop
E.g.: He didn’t want to talk to whoever he met in
the London workshop
E.g.: Having seldom talked to anyone before, the
child simply wide opened his beautiful eyes
and looked at the stranger
E.g.: Having seldom talked to anyone before, the
child simply wide opened his beautiful eyes
and looked at the stranger
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