LIN204H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Proverb, Cupcake, Linking Verb
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*textbook error: page 108: the 1) modals, 2) have, 3) be, and 4) do constitute the major auxiliary verbs auxiliaries in english. Tests: substitute determiners into the sentence e. g. , frombable donuts have been placed on the table. Adjective because determiners don(cid:495)t occur with any adjective-forming derivational suffixes. Both adjectives because determiners can(cid:495)t be made comparative with suffix {-er} Adjective because adj. precede a nouns in this case, ants where as determiners come after the noun. Few people have arrived/ even fewer / the fewest . Determiner with {-er}: *fewer e. g. , small chope ants marched down the driveway e. g. , the people on this bus seem drom. But yesterday, they seemed even drommer e. g. , blick two runners usually race on friday. Example of compound noun: a noun modifying as another noun. Determiners appear to the left of adjectives in a noun phrase, and adjectives can(cid:495)t be on the left of a determiner: the small ants wrong: small the ants.
