LINGUIST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Infinitive

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1AA3
• Professor: Catherine Anderson

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Past participle: can be used as adjective or to form verb tenses: here it is used as an adjective: the whispered word, here it is used to form a verb tense: the message was whispered. Usually end with ed, -d, -t,-en, or n. The present participle used as an adjective: the laughing boy. The present participle used to form a verb tense: the boy was laughing. Past and present participles are verb forms that function either as an adjective or non. A modal verb is one that adds information about the probability or desirability of the infinitive that comes with it, like can, will, must, etc. Modal auxillaries: can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will and would. Verbs like vanish, arrive , and dash that don"t have an np complement are called intransitive . A word can belong to more than one subcategory.