Functional English: Grammar
Functional English: Grammar
Grammar
Topics
What is Grammar
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Grammar
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Grammar
Word
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Grammar
Consider these:
Word Classes
Lexical words
Word Classes
lexical words
Lexical words are the most numerous and
growing all the time
Function words
Word classes such as prepositions, coordinators,
auxiliary verbs, and pronouns 10
Word Classes
Word Classes
Function words
Word Classes
Inserts:
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Word Classes
Inflection:
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Word Classes
Derivation:
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• Inflectional morphemes change what a word
does in terms of grammar, but does not create
a new word.
• For example, the word <skip> has many forms:
skip (base form), skipping (present
progressive), skipped (past tense).
• The inflectional morphemes -ing and -ed are
added to the base word skip, to indicate the
tense of the word.
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inflectional morphemes are always suffixes in English,
and they include the following:
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IRREGULAR INFLECTIONAL MORPHEMES
-ed past tense walked Verbs was began broke brought built bought
caught chose came crept drew drank
drove ate fell fed fought flew found sang
and many more!
-en past (have) Verbs (have …) begun sung drunk grown known
participle given thrown ridden rung seen
and many more!
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Word Classes
Compounding:
Compounding, which also leads to more complex
words
For example:
Noun + Noun chair + man
Verb + Noun cook + book
Adjective + Noun flat + fish
Noun + Adjective head + long 19
THANK YOU
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1(a). From the From the following list of words, select five words with inflectional morphology.
Click on 'Check Inflectional' to check.
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