Q/A Inisiasi 3
Hi all,
If you have questions about module 3, please post it here. But, to start, I'd like to post a question as follows:
1. Out of all the parts of speech, which of them are the most important in sentence construction?
Please elaborate your opinion with example.
Cheers,
The eight English inflectional morphemes
| | MORPHEME | GRAMMATICAL FUNCTION | EXAMPLES |
| NOUNS | Plural | Marks as more than one | regular: dogs, cats, horses irregular: sheep, cacti, phenomena, children |
| Possessive | Marks for ownership | Bart’s, Homer’s, Marge’s | |
| ADJECTIVES | Comparative | Marks for comparison (usually accompanied by than) | closer, whiter, quicker |
| Superlative | Marks as superlative (sometimes accompanied by of) | closest, whitest, quickest | |
| VERBS | 3rd-singular Present Agreement | Marks to agree with singular third person (his, her, it), in the present tense | runs, waits, pushes |
| Past Tense | Marks (roughly) for past action. | regular: dragged, backed, baited | |
| irregular: hit, ran, swam | |||
| Past Participle | Marks past participle (follows be or have): “Bart was chosen” “I have chosen Bart). | “regular”: chosen, proven, woken | |
| irregular: drunk, hung; waited (same as past tense) | |||
| Present Participle | Marks present participle (follows be: “Bart was walking”). | walking, jumping, swinging |
| Derivational and inflectional morphemes |
Observe the underlined bound morphemes in the two lists below
| worked cats walking speaks John's faster slowest | modernise drinkable national nonsense infrequent overexcited dishonest |
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