LIN204H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Adpositional Phrase, Possessive, Closed Set
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Made up of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. They contain meaning independent of one another: cat, love, run, gradually. Grouped into: determiners, auxiliaries, qualifiers, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, relatives and interrogatives. Provide the sentence infrastructure into which the content words can be placed. Provide information about how to interpret content words and phrases. Modifying words that determine the kind of reference a noun or noun phrase will have. Possessives: my, our, your, his, her its, their. Indefinites: some, any, every, other, many, much, all, both, each. Adjectives also modify a noun or noun phrase. Do not pass the formal or functional tests for adjectives. Determiners in english give us information about definiteness or indefiniteness. Something is specific and identifiable; the speaker assumes that the listener knows which specific object is being referred to. New information that is not talked about yet, or the speaker could be making a generalization.
