LING 2P10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ditransitive Verb, Phrasal Verb, Adverb

• School: Brock University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 2P10
• Professor: Angelica Galante

Document Summary

Verbs define what the subject does or describes the state or condition of the subject. They provide crucial sentence meaning to a sentewnce. Verbs province clue of what subject does or state or condition of subject. Inflectional endings to mark tense on verbs. Verb comes after subject in affirmative sentences. Main verbs can stand alone in a sentence and do not need to be accompanied. The most common ones are have, be, do. Transitive verbs are those which must be followed by an object that receives the action of the verb. Di-transitive verbs take two objects, a direct and indirect. Ex he gave the pencil to me. The pencil is the direct object and me is the indirect object. Sentence could also be arranged he gave me the pencil so the. Intransitive verbs do not have an object, but may be followed by an adverb or indirect object is first prepositional phrase. Ex slept quietly, cried loudly, lives in india.