Form Class Words: Adjectives/ Adverbs

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Predicative Only <strong>Adjectives</strong>●●Many so-called A-adjectives are predicative only:– ablaze, afraid, aghast, alone, awake●●●●The house was ablaze*The ablaze house burned down in an hourThe children were awake*The awake children were noisyIncidentally not all predicative adjectives take very,the sample qualifier in the test frame– we do not usually say:●“very afraid” or “very awake”– we would rather say:●“very much afraid” and “very much awake”– although they do combine with the other qualifiers:●quite afraid, extremely afraid, completely awake, wide awake
<strong>Adjectives</strong> Followed by Clauses●A number of adjectives in predicative position appearfrequently with complements in the form of phrases orclauses– some adjectives: fond and aware, are rarely used withoutthem:●●●●●The children were afraid that the dog would biteThe children were aware that the dog would biteThe dog was fond of biting childrenWe were conscious of the problemOur team is certain to win– these cases are called 'complements' rather than modifiersor qualifiers because they complement the idea expressedby the adjective = direct objects are complements of verbs
Page 1 and 2: Lecture 4English 3318: Studies in E
Page 3 and 4: Adjectives●●In terms of form, a
Page 5: Adjective Inflectional Suffixes●
Page 8 and 9: Adjectives or Adverbs●●More and
Page 10 and 11: Rules of ThumbFormal ProofFunctiona
Page 12 and 13: Subclasses of Adjectives●●The a
Page 16 and 17: Ability to Combine with Qualifiers
Page 18 and 19: Derivational Suffixes●One common
Page 20 and 21: Other Derivational Suffixes●Besid
Page 22 and 23: Adverb Subclasses●Adverbs are oft
Page 24: Exercise 21. There are two - ly mor

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