LING 3P94 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Count Noun, Mass Noun, Ditransitive Verb
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The carrying over or transferring of an activity from one participant (agent) to another (patient) Related to grammatical valency (# of arguments (np) required by v) Intransitive (1 arg): he (subject) runs fast. Monotransitive (2 arg): the cat (subject) killed a bird (direct object) Ditransitive (3 arg): we (subject) gave her (indirect object) some advice (direct object) Complex transitive (3 arg): she (subject) put the plate (direct object) on the table. Low transitivity involves 1 argument, high transitivity more than 1 argument. Proper noun, animate, human, concrete, singular, count noun, referential, definite (the) Common noun, inanimate, abstract, plural, mass noun, non- referential (a) Concerned with opinion and attitude of speaker towards what she says. You may leave if u like (permission) This book must be a best seller; i must have a ticket for admission (necessarily true/necessity) He cans, she mays, it musts are all wrong. He will come and so will she.
