2011 Descriptive Grammar of English Marcin Cinciała - Serwis ...

ADJECTIVES
stative/dynamic
gradable/non-gradable
inherent/non-inherent
1. How does distribution of words in a sentence help in their classification
into the parts of speech categories
2. There are two expletive subjects in English: what are they and how do
they differ
3. Give examples of parts of speech which have suppletive forms.
4. What does it mean that an adjective is non-gradable
pure adv.
ADVERBS compound adv.
derived adv.
copulative
5. How do nouns and pronouns differ in terms of their morphological
marking (open/closed class, Case marking, person distinction, gender
contrast, number forms morphologically related/unrelated).
6. What is the difference between Saxon and Periphrastic Genitive Refer
to their form, meaning and use.
coordinating disjunctive
adversative
CONJUNCTIONS
Subordinating
Morphological marking (inflection) of different parts of speech
Case, number and gender of nouns and pronouns,
(a) Saxon vs. periphrastic Genitive (form, meaning and use),
(b) tense, aspect, mood and voice of verbs,
(c) subject/verb agreement,
(d) grading of adjectives and adverbs,
(e) suppletive forms,
(f) verb forms: infinitive, tensed and participial.
Exercises: