Rules of Language: Definitions and Applications
Here are some rules that must be followed:
- The rules: are rules that must be fixed as or as something must be done.
- The intrusions: are indications that guide the orderly manner of doing or using something.
- A word or expression is used figuratively used with a meaning different from its literal meaning.
- The personification: of attributing qualities or actions of animate beings themselves to inanimate beings.
- The comparison relates two elements which have some similarity.
- The metaphor is to associate two
Locative Alternation: Understanding Verb Variations
In the locative alternation, certain verbs denoting the transfer of a substance or set of objects (the theme, content, locatum, or figure) into or onto a container or surface (the goal, container, location, or ground) allow two variants:
I. The Locative Variant
In the locative variant, the theme/content/locatum/figure is the direct object of the verb, and the goal/container/location/ground follows, introduced by a preposition (59a, b).
II. The With Variant
In the with variant, the goal/container/location/
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Adjectives vs. Verbs
Attributive Position: Adjectives in attributive position cannot be used predicatively and are not gradable. Adverbs that typically modify these items are manner adverbs.
Worth vs. Due: These adjectives are complements of “become.” “Due” is a preposition that admits a noun phrase (NP) complement and may be followed by an -ing form.
Adjective Phrases (AdjPH) and Adverb Phrases (AdvPH)
AdjPH: Modification (modifier + head) or complementation (head + complement).
AdvPH: Adverb modifiers
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Adjective
In grammar, an adjective is a “describing” word; the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object signified.
Nouns
Nouns are a part of speech typically denoting a person, place, thing, animal, or idea. In linguistics, a noun is a member of a large, open lexical category whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition.
Adverb
An adverb is a word that changes
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Classes and Degrees of Adjectives
Classes of Adjectives: Specifying and explanatory.
Degrees of Significance of Adjectives:
- Positive: Expresses the quality without changing intensity. Example: Large lounge.
- Comparative: Comparison of:
- Inferiority: (e.g., Peter is less intelligent than me)
- Equality: (e.g., This car is as nice as mine)
- Superiority: (e.g., Farith is prettier than Adriana)
- Superlative: Expresses the quality in its maximum degree (e.g., Pass it excellently, he did very well, she is high).
- Absolute:
Understanding Greek Participles
Present Active Participle
Feminine
Singular Plural
N. OATUU ai “ h “ G. ousai th / j oushj twn ousw / n D. th | “ oush | taiji ousaij A. th, n ousan taj ousaj
Masculine Singular or Plural N. ontej “ G. “ oi wn tou / ontoj tw / n ovntwn D. tw / onti toi / j to ousin A., No onta tou / j Mounting
Present Participle of Middle-Passive
Feminine
Singular Plural
N. omevnh ai “ h “ G. ovmenai th / j omevnwn D. omevnhj twn th | “ omevnh | taiji omevnaij A. th, n omevnhn taj omevnaj
Masculine Singular or
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