WRIT2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Adverb, Closed Set
Week 6 Lecture
Expletive Pronouns:
Subjects – it is, there is, there are, it was, there was, there are
Gender-neutral – using they and them
This:
Use noun or noun phrase
Being used as a determiner
Determiners:
Comprise a small closed set
Make nouns and noun phases more specific
Demonstrative
Articles, possessive, interrogative, quantifiers
Always combine with noun
Alone they act as a pronoun – stand on their own
Adjectives:
Modify nouns – attributive – comes before the noun
Complement nouns – predicative – comes after the noun
Postpositive or postnominal come after the noun they modify
Can’t sit in the predicate
Form adjectives from verbs – past and present participial (ing)
Can change form and show grade – positive, comparative, superlative
The Royal Order
Forming:
Form from other parts of speech
Gradable vs absolute adjectives:
Gradable – can inflect for grade or be modified
Absolute (non-gradable) – cannot be logically modified, quantified or qualified
Adjectives:
Cumulative adjectives – do not need commas, build up
Coordinate adjectives – use commas, stand in place of the word and
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