LIN204H1 Lecture Notes - Grammatical Category, Auxiliary Verb, Future Perfect
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Subject + predicate (in that order) e. g. [a dog] subject [chased the car] predicate. After he took a shower, he went to school. (dependent and independent) Clauses can be dependent or independent, but sentences have to be independent. I have to complete three homeworks by friday. Error = homework is not a count noun, so can not be pluralized. Error = determiner is missing, singular and countable must have a determiner. Error = non count noun, can not have -s after non-count nouns. Verbal noun (gerund): e. g. smoking is not allowed here. Smoking = verbal noun, it is a verb but functions as a noun e. g. to stay here is a crazy idea! Stay functions as a noun, but is a verb. Traditionally verbs = action but they can be nouns. Verbs = refer to action and states e. g. lay, seems, resembles, remain, hate, believe. But nouns = name actions too e. g. attack, storm, delivery, departure, lightening.
