ENGL1007 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Present Perfect, Participle, Preposition And Postposition

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL1007
• Professor: Nick Reimer

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Looking at the particular contexts in which the word is used to determine its status in that particular clause. Nouns: ability to be pluralized; ability to immediately follow determiners. Verbs: ability to take tense (e. g. suffix: -ed) and aspect (e. g. Verbs: ability to take tense (e. g. suffix: -ed) and aspect (e. g. "i am (verb)") markers; ability to appear in verb groups. Adverbs: many do, but often they don"t, end in "-ly", e. g. "well". If it is not a noun, preposition, verb or adjective it is likely an adverb. Prepositions: are a fixed class, express very concrete physical relationships. The most abstract preposition is "of", because it can be used to describe the all sorts of relationships and possession among them, not just those that are physical. Parts of the verb: (referring to the diagram of verbs from collins and hollo textbook) The biggest distinction is between the tensed and non-tensed parts of the verb;