Part of speech that modifies a noun or a pronoun is called adjectives, so they add to the information density of registers like academic prose. Adjectives tend to describe states, properties or attributes of things, though as usual, one needs to be careful with semantic definitions of syntactic categories. For example, “a green house across the street”, the adjective ‘green’ describes the noun ‘house’. According to Biber, Conrad and Leech (2002), there are two types of adjectives namely central adjectives and peripheral adjectives. The characteristics of central adjectives consist of morphological, syntactical and semantic characteristics. For morphological characteristic of central adjectives, it changes the form of a word to express a grammatical …show more content…
Some of the examples are gradable adjectives; poor, hot, wise and soft. In morphological adjectives, there are four basic rules for comparative and superlative. (Biber, Conrad and Leech (2002)) Firstly, one syllable adjectives with the usage of bound morphemes –er and –est. This can be further explained by the word ‘tall’. When the bound morphemes are added, it becomes ‘taller’ and ‘tallest’. The second rule is one syllable adjectives with a consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) pattern. If the adjective has a CVC patter, the consonant will be double and –er and –est will be added. For example; big (bigger, biggest), sad (sadder, saddest) and fat (fatter, fattiest). The third rule is where the bound morphemes are –ier and –iest, two syllables adjectives and usually ends with –y. Words which have two syllables and ends with –y are, “happy”, “busy” and “crazy”. Thus, when bound morphemes are added, it forms words such as “happier and happiest”, “busier and busiest” and “crazier and craziest”. Fourthly, adjectives with two or more syllables, free morphemes more and most are involved, and the example the word ‘important’. When free morphemes are added, it becomes ‘more important’ and ‘most important’. Besides, there are three other adjectives that have irregular comparative and superlative form: good, bad and far. For examples, good-better-best, bad-worse-worst and far-further-furthest. Variation exists in this general pattern, where some two syllables adjectives allow both type of comparison. For example, friendlier and more friendly. Other than that, adjective in terms of morphology can be formed from noun and verb, by, using the participle form, adding word ending or derivational suffixes and compounding. The participle forms –ing and –ed are usually added to verb to form adjectives. Such
In “The Treasure Of Lemon Brown” the author uses descriptive adjective to develop the mood and the characters of the story. First, the story talks about “The small pale green kitchen”. The descriptive language helps you visualize the the kitchen, you can infer the kitchen is old and not very appealing. Second, the story states “Then returned the graffiti-scarred building to the grim building.” This helps describe the mood, bleak
First, a brief background in the three dimensions of language discussed throughout this paper. The functional, semantic, or thematic dimensions of language as previously mentioned are often used in parallel with each other. Due, to this fact it is important to be able to identify them as they take place and differentiate between these dimensions i...
One example is > the description of Grendel’s claws as “nails as hard as > bright steel� (985) Another simile poetically depicts the > Geats journey stating, “The ship foamed through the sea > like a bird� (218). > An Epithet is an identifying repeating adjective used > to take the place of a person’s name.
There are some basic characteristics that result from this definition and they are the following:
..., verb, adverb, adjective and preposition. For example, to identify noun phrase, you only have to look for noun (I, He, Tommy) and to identify verb phrase, only look for verb (run, swim, watching, jump). If you want to identify which type, you just look for that word type in that sentence. If you have a good knowledge at basic word type in path of speech, you can also use them to identify the phrase too. We can call it “Two birds, one stone” for this new type.
A definite description is a phrase which is commonly written in the form ‘the so-and-so’ in which “so-and-so” is a singular noun. An Example of definite descriptions is “the President of Russia”. Apart from “the-so-and-so”, definite descriptions can also take the form of possessives such as “Mr. Smith’s daughter”.
1. Why do these words describe you? Provide examples from your experience that Illustrate how each word describes you?
Text linguistics is a “discipline which analyses the linguistic regularities and constitutive features of texts” (Bussmann, 1996: 1190). According to this definition, text linguistics is mainly concerned with studying the features that every piece of writing should have in order to be considered as a text. It is also defined by Noth (1977 in Al-Massri, 2013:33) as “the branch of linguistics in which the methods of linguistic analysis are extended to the level of text.” This means that text linguistics aims at producing rules and methods that can be used to analyze the whole text. This approach has been put forward by the two scholars Robert-Alain de Beaugrande and Wolfgang U. Dressler in their seminal book “Introduction to Text Linguistics”, in 1981. The study of texts in linguistic studies starts in
German participle formation through affixation is generally predictable, but not foreseeable by the surface structure of the verb. For monomorphemic verbs, a German participle is formed by attaching the participle marker ge- and a participle suffix to the verb stem. Depending on the verb, the participle suffix can either be -t (e.g. saugen - gesaugt ‘vacuum – vacuumed’) or -en (e.g. geben - gegeben ‘to give-gave’). -t participles are considered productive (or regular) and –en participles unproductive (or irregular) forms. Both forms can legally occur with a vowel change in the stem, as in reiten - geritten ‘to ride- ridden’ or brennen - gebrannt ‘to burn- burned’ (Smolka, Zwitserlood et al., 2007).
“Determiners indicate the type of reference made by the noun phrase (e.g. definite, indefinite, possessive); they also indicate number or quantity (e.g. six, much, some). Determiners come in front position in noun phrases, before adjectives and noun modifiers.” (CGE p. 353)
When grammar is put to use in a society, people will often have different beliefs at what is the "right" or "proper" usage. This had led to the formation of two widely accepted forms of grammar, Prescriptivism and Descriptivism. These forms will often separate those who believe their form of grammar is the only correct way from those who use many forms they find to be acceptable. Descriptive grammar is formed by analyzing how speakers use a language, and deducing the rules they follow. Linguists create descriptive grammars in order to understand language more deeply. They understand that a single language can have multiple dialects, and that each dialect will have its own grammatical rules--internally
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Next to last type are incorporating verb idioms. The author claims that the first component is an adjective or a noun in other surroundings and a slavish re-encoding of them disclose an interrelated configuration that is either
Second, due to the absence of the grammaticalized progressive aspect in German the durative qualities in Präsens, Präteritum and Futur I cannot be expressed morphologically. To convey the continuative nature of a situation German relies on the inherent qualities of the verb, the context of the verb, lexical expressions and other lexical means (e.g. adverbials).
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