LIN204H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Count Noun, Nonfinite Verb, Part Of Speech
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Answers to exercises: chapter 3: spot the word class. They gulched [verb quaffed] and guttled [verb guzzled]. Mephitically [adverb offensively] alliaceous [adjective smelly] ventripotent [adjective big-bellied] fopdoodles [noun fools] and gotchy [adjective bloated] slubberdegullions [noun ratbags], she mussitated [verb muttered]. [verb nibbling] moliminously [adverb laboriously] at the jejune [adjective meagre] and unsaporous [adjective unsatisfying] grots [noun scraps] tofore. Pabulous [noun delicious] comessations [noun banquets] were an ephialtes [noun nightmare] for the deipnetic [noun diner]. It was a niminy [adjective weak] gulosity [noun gluttony], she wiste [verb knew] it, but they begat [verb caused] swilk. Thilke [demonstrative those*] trogalions [noun sweets] she yissed [verb desired] avidulously [adverb greedily]. We will summarize how we assigned the word classes here: we classified all the items on the basis of their grammatical behaviour; that is, their shape (i. e. their morphology) and their position in the sentence (i. e. their syntax).