LIN204H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Continuous And Progressive Aspects, Preposition And Postposition
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But destruction is a noun so that does not fit into this criteria. Not relying on the meaning of the word but focus on syntactic behavior of. Syntactic categories (noun, verbs, adverbs parts of speech) Ex: the cat frequently chases the grumpy dog outside. Can follow a determiner like the, a, this, my, etc. , The cat frequently chases the grumpy dog outside. No cat will chase the grumpy dog outside. *the cat the house frequently chases the grumpy dog outside. Unacceptable (a native speaker would never say this) Plural form is suffix -s (often but there are some exceptions in which noun cannot be pluralized) The cats frequently chase the grumpy dog outside. Santa delivered presents the day after halloween. Ai believes that the pope destroyed all the fluffy fish. These sentences do not make sense but they are not unacceptable. A word is acting like a noun if it is the case that it cannot take an.
