LING 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Dependent Clause, Verbal Noun, Gerund
8 Feb 2018
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Interjection: a word or group of words which expresses some feeling in an exclamatory fashion. Types of nouns: common nouns, diverse in what they denote, can be physical entities, mental entities, states, events and conditions, divided into two sections, concrete, denoting concrete entities, 21/10/16: abstract, denoting abstract entities, intangible, collective nouns, denoting collections, or groups, compound nouns, made up of different nouns, combined nouns. Properties of nouns: grammatical number, plural versus singular, case, nominative, objective, possessive, gender, masculine feminine. Use of nouns: subject, bill runs five miles every day, predicate nominative, soccer is a sport, appositive, the instructor gave a book to paul, my brother, direct object, amy went to the store. Indirect object: the instructor gave a book to bill, object of a preposition, objective complement, we consider them our friends, nominative absolute. 21/10/16: direct address, helen, please leave the room. English pronouns: words which stand for a noun, personal.
