While adjectives almost always have some relationship to a noun, whether in the NP or the VP, adverbs modify many other parts of speech; classically, adverb phrases (AdvP) are understood as ‘modifying’ verbs in verb phrases, where they appear as adjuncts, but they can also modify adjective phrases, prepositional phrases, other adverb phrases, and both main and subordinate clauses as well.
In what way are adverbs different from adjectives in terms of what parts they can change?
Prepositional phrases have a variety of functions.
So are prepositional phrases used a descriptions for nouns?
With the diagram serving as a visual metaphor, we can say that the features of the head word project upward in the diagram.
the main subject of this example would be worker while diligent is just describing the worker.
There is an unfortunate difference in terminology regarding the terms determiner and determinative.
According to the paragraph determiner and determinative are different because a detrminer is a category while being detrminative is a function. A detrminer word is basically a word that is placed ahead of a noun to specify some details about it while, a determinative is just determinining something.
Just as words can fall into several different parts of speech, verb can employ several different patterns. For this reason, you can’t just assume that a particular verb will always fall into one subtype. You must look at the sentence in which that verb appears.
This basically says that the same way words can have many different functions a verb can have different patterns so, you have to look at how the sentence is formed to determine which group the verb should be placed in
When we analyze a sentence, we take it apart to determine what function each unit in the sentence has. This process is known as parsing a sentence. You can probably do some basic parsing already, even if you have never heard of the term.
So basically, parsing is breaking down a sentence to understand the functions in simpler terms.
Two of the most important constituents to identify are the subject and the predicate. In simple sentences, finding the subject is intuitively obvious.
identifying the subject in a sentence is always easy because its always the "thing" that something is happening to. For example in this sentence "The car is getting washed" the subject would be the car because its getting washed.
In the example above, the act of reaching the summit does not occur in the present.
The reason that you can tell that "reaching the summit" did not happen in the present is because "reaching" has and -ing meaning it happened in the past.
Mood refers to a grammatical system that is primarily used to convey modality. The difference between mood and modality is parallel to the difference between tense and time. Like time, modality is a semantic concept; like tense, mood is a grammatical realization of a concept. For the most part, English expresses mood analytically, through a system of modal auxiliaries.
I agree with the difference between mood and modality because despite them both surrounding around time and place. Mood is based more on peoples emotions while modality is how somethings is done.
Nouns are words that represent people, places, things, and ideas. If you can put ‘the’ in front of it and it’s a complete phrase, it’s a noun.
an example of a noun would be my name and where i live. The only misconception is that you cant use the word "the" before a noun in some cases.
Prepositions express a relationship between (mostly) nouns and noun phrases and other things in language.
in simpler terms prepositions are words that tell you where something is or when its happening in connection to another thing
A rhyme is further split into a nucleus which are the vowel sounds and the coda which are the consonants that come after the nucleus.
an example of rhyming is: hug, rug, mug, tug, bug
With language, different combinations of a small number of sounds yield hundreds of thousands of words, and different combinations of those words yield an essentially infinite number of utterances.
Basically this is saying that when it comes to language, there are many possible word combinations formed by a limited set of sounds, and there are practically endless ways to combine those words to create sentences.
Children can learn any language they are exposed to. Take a moment to consider how remarkable that ability is. If an infant is raised in a society, that child will learn the language—or languages—they hear spoken.
i definitely agree with the fact that if children are exposed to something then they can obtain it like its their own. I was raised around Spanish people and i was also partially raised around people who were from England and because of that i'm a fluent spanish speaker and i have a killer british accent.
Linguistics also distinguishes itself from the other language arts by its scientific approach. Like other sciences, linguistics constructs theories and tests the validity of these theories against empirical evidence. Linguists for the most part study how people actually use language, whether or not that use matches what schoolbooks claim is the “correct” form of the language. Linguistics wants to explain things the way they actually are, not to change them according to some preconceived notion. Consider, for example, an utterance such as:
so basically linguistics are just people who make sure others are using pronunciation correctly.
Why another grammar book?
Its going to be nice to see what I remember from high school compared to now.
The basic attitude towards language that this course promotes is that language is a phenomenon to be studied, not an ideal or goal to be reached. This textbook will help you use real-world evidence to think about language, basing your conclusions primarily on the way English actually works rather than on arbitrary assertions by so-called authorities who may or may not offer well-founded advice.
im interested on learning more information on how english really works, and increasing my knowledge.
It's going to be interesting to gain a deeper knowledge about grammar.
The most common verb in English, and also the most irregular, is to be. This verb is generally considered a linking verb. Like other linking verbs, BE[3] can take a subject complement, either an NP or an AdjP:
so basically a linking verb and a subject complement go hand in hand