LIN204H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Inflection, Mass Noun
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Verbs express action; as in sit and speak. But nouns can name actions too; as in the attack. Verbs can denote states and conditions; as in lay and resemble. Words looking like nouns can also be used as verbs as in you must dog; functional shift. {-ion} and {-ity} and {-s} possessive indicate nouns. {en-} and {-ing} and {-ed} indicate verbs. How it can function with other categories in a phrase or sentence. Words can take more than one categories. Fit the frame sentence: (the) -------- seem(s) all right. All right can be varied- seems slow . Derivational morpheme that creates verbs: {-ify}, {-en}, {en-}, etc. Verbal inflectional morphology: {-s3}, {-ing}, {-ed}, {-en} Frame sentence: they must ------ (it)/ they must ------ good. Must: modal auxiliaries that must be followed by a verb. Stakes, skated, skating, has skated make sense. Therefore, although it has no verb-making morphology, it behaves like a verb in all other ways.
