LIN204H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nonstandard Dialect, Lexical Verb, Dependent Clause
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Standard dialect is the dialect recognized worldwide in newspapers and publications. Formal style is used in formal situations while informal style is used in casual, everyday situations. Chapter 2: the most basic clause is composed of a __________ and a ____________. Subject, predicate: noun phrases and verb phrases contain a __________ (the most important word) and 0 or more __________. Category is a class of grammatically alike expressions. Take, took, taken are different inflectional forms of the same __________. Open: lexical verbs, proper nouns and common nouns, adjectives, adverbs. Closed: auxiliary verbs, pronouns, prepositions, determinatives, subordinators, coordinators. Any member of a category that has the full set of distinctive properties: verbs function as the head of vps, also known as __________. Predicators: a set of inflectional verb forms is called a __________. Secondary forms cannot (with the exception of the imperative use of the plain form: the plain form can be further divided into 3 more contexts.
