ENGL 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Calgary Stampede

• School: Chico State University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 375
• Professor: Sara Trechter

Document Summary

Nouns verbs adjectives adverbs - prepositions. I looked up the street: i = subject; looked = verb; up = preposition; the street = noun phrase. Our local yards turned brown because of the drought. : our local yards = subject; turned = verb; brown = adjective; because of the drought = prepositional phrase. Possessive pronouns: my, your, his, her, our, their. The chef made the young couple a mango-basil soup. Transitive = np after verb; intransitive = no np after verb. Cow-hands consider the calgary stampede a rip-roaring party. Cow-hands = subject (noun inside of noun phrase); consider = verb (vt); the calgary stampede = np (the = article; calgary.