... English Banana.com Test Your Grammar Skills NounsandVerbs Answers: All the words can be used as both nounsandverbs Here are some examples: Using each word as a noun: • • ... with Auntie Jane Annie smiled and went inside Here are some examples: pull, hope, joke, drink, sleep, frown, cheat, fall, walk, drive For more fun tests, quizzes and games log onto www.englishbanana.com ... tests, quizzes and games log onto www.englishbanana.com now! This worksheet can be photocopied and used without charge ...
... 1 Mark Haddon writes in a simple and understandable way UNDERSTAND The party was much more enjoyable than I had expected ENJOY I wish I had magical ... magical powers MAGIC Mary came to me in a very emotional state EMOTION He was terrible at school and left with few academic qualifications ACADEMY My sister is allergic to cats ALLERGY That girl ... 10 Colin Firth is a wonderful actor WONDER 11 The war was endless END 12 They are now penniless and deeply in debt PENNY 13 Hannah is so ambitious, determined to it all AMBITIOUS 14 Their honeymoon...
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... i n k o v a : Alliteration and sound change in early English m a r k c b a k e r : Lexical categories: verbs, nouns, and adjectives LEXICAL CATEGORIES Verbs, Nouns, and Adjectives MARK C BAKER ... The criterion of identity Occurrence with quantifiers and determiners Nouns in binding and anaphora Nounsand movement Nouns as arguments Nouns must be related to argument positions 95 95 101 ... theory They claim that verbsand prepositions take complements, andnounsand adjectives not; this is like Jackendoff’s +/−obj feature They also claim that adjectives and prepositions form predicates,...
... home? My friends and I will help you You have no time to lose Terry will be there REVIEW OF VERBS, NOUNS, AND PRONOUNS 67 Lesson 11 Adjectives What is the difference between sweater and that white ... 11Eventually, Frodo decides his quest must lead him to Mordor, and he leaves secretly to continue it alone continued REVIEW OF VERBS, NOUNS, AND PRONOUNS 65 12Though tales of fantasy, the Lord of the Rings ... housewife—housewives (See Rule 4, page 30.) REVIEW OF VERBS, NOUNS, AND PRONOUNS 63 EXERCISE For each singular noun below, write (a) the plural and (b) the letter of the rule for forming that plural...
... not apply to nouns, 100 of nouns into adpositions, 304n of nouns into verbs, 166 verbs derived from adjectives by, 151n., 165, 215, 221, 253–56, 261, 275, 298n conjunction, 146n and referential ... process nominals: evidence from adverbs and the VP anaphor so Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 19: 549–82 Fukui, Naoki and Margaret Speas 1986 Specifiers and projections MIT Working Papers ... Jane and Armin Mester 1988 Light verbsand θ-marking Linguistic Inquiry 19: 205–32 Gupta, Anil 1980 The logic of common nouns New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press Hale, Kenneth 1983 Warlpiri and...
... (1994), Anderson (1997), and others My view, in contrast, is syntax-centered, defining verbs in terms of having a specifier, nouns in terms of c-commanding something with a shared index, and adjectives ... certainly not random either The words meaning ‘rock,’ ‘dog,’ ‘child,’ and ‘tree’ are nouns in every language, and the words meaning ‘buy,’ ‘hit,’ ‘walk,’ and ‘fall’ are almost always verbs Dixon ... assume that objects are designated by nouns, actions by verbs, and properties by adjectives They then jump to the conclusion that there are a few nouns, verbs, and adjectives in the language they...
... either with the nouns or with the verbs ((86c,d)).33 (86) Transitory situations Permanent situations a X— (verbs) —X———-(Adjs)————X— (nouns) —X (English) b X— (verbs) —X–(A1 s)—X–(A2 s)———X– (nouns) —–X (Japanese?) ... neither nouns nor verbs semantic linking in resultative constructions Verbs derived from adjectives and their adjectival passives differ minimally from simple adjectives in that they imply an ... resultative predicate, verbs can be used as resultatives given certain parameter settings involving tense, andnouns can never be used as resultatives 4.5 Adjectives and adverbs So far I have considered...
... readings that nouns zero-derived into verbs have in English: (184c) is like Hale’s and Keyser’s (1993) location verbs (to corral the horses) and (184d) is like Hale’s and Keyser’s locatum verbs (to ... categories – Preds that make nouns look more verbal, and pronouns / determiners that make adjectives andverbs look more nominal In languages in which both Pred and pronouns are systematically null, ... of inflection, and adjectives happen to take the same range of number, gender, and case forms as nouns in Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit For this reason, the distinction between nounsand adjectives...
... inchoative verbs; and –wa, which forms causative verbs Heath observes that both of these morphemes attach productively to adjectives but not to nouns, as shown in (138c,d) 160 (138) Nouns as bearers ... this section is very simple: predicate adjectives become verbs more easily and regularly than predicate nouns do, because both adjectives andverbs lack a referential index The nuances of this for ... inflectional distinction between nounsand adjectives, and this fits with the fact that [A N] constituents are possible in Mayali, and so is noun incorporation into verbs (Evans 1991) In spite of...
... adjectival.20 3.4 Nouns in binding and anaphora My task now is to go on and show how nouns having a criterion of identity and a referential index can explain differences between nounsand other categories ... testing caused a celebration 3.4 Nouns in binding and anaphora 127 can bear a referential index The binding of anaphors and pronouns requires that they be c-commanded by and coindexed with their antecedent ... bear referential indices, and it is not surprising that these phrases participate in anaphora But the prediction that APs and VPs by themselves cannot holds true 3.5 Nounsand movement I turn next...
... turn now to consideration of what sets nouns apart from verbsand adjectives Using phrase structure and theta-role assignment to distinguish verbs from nounsand adjectives builds on relatively ... khəRa h˜ ˜ u I stand be ‘I stand, am standing.’ b Məy ys pətthər ko ˜ kəhRa kər˜ ga u I this stone A C C stand make-F U T ‘I will stand this stone up.’ The adjective kh Ra ‘standing’ combines ... guise and a syntactic guise: (1) a Semantic version: nounsand only nouns have criteria of identity, whereby they can serve as standards of sameness b Syntactic version: X is a noun if and only...
... of the standard features +/−V and +/−N, then one would expect to find causative affixes that subcategorize for a +V root, and therefore attach to both adjectives andverbs but not to nouns, just ... the nature of verbs, adjectives, andnouns will lead (me) to a better understanding of the complexities of nominalizations and gerund constructions, but this area is enormously rich and complex, ... distinguish direct objects and the subjects of unaccusative verbs (which are generated in Spec, VP) from both the subjects of transitive verbsand unergative verbs (in Spec, vP) and the subjects of...
... verbsand other categories has no obvious connection to the superficial inflectional properties of verbs, but it does suggest that there is a structural difference between verbsand predicate nouns/ adjectives ... tense My proposal is that verbs take subjects directly andnounsand adjectives not, as a universal definition of these categories Thus, Pred is present with predicate nounsand predicate adjectives ... the verbs are themes, then it is reasonable to say that the subjects of the adjectives andnouns are also themes (or perhaps Essentially the same distinction is found in Reinhart and Reuland’s...