Personal Pronouns 1st‚ 2nd‚ 3rd singular Vocabulary and key phrases I I you you he he she she I speak English. I speak English. You speak Spanish. You speak Spanish. He speaks French. He speaks French. She speaks German. She speaks German. Do you speak English? Do you speak English? Does he speak French? Does he speak French? www.busuu.com - All rights reserved 1/4 Personal Pronouns 1st‚ 2nd‚ 3rd singular Does she speak German
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Grammatical categories The grammatical categories which are realised by the described types of forms organised in functional paradigmatic oppositions‚ can either be innate for a given class of words‚ or only be expressed on the surface of it‚ serving as a sign of correlation with some other class. For instance‚ the category of number is organically connected with the functional nature of the noun; it directly exposes the number of the referent substance‚ e.g. one ship — several ships. The category
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Philology Department Gender in the English language: a diachronic perspective 8.030502 – the English Language and Literature Course Paper CONTENTS INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………3-5 CHAPTER I. THEORETICAL BASIS FOR THE STUDY OF THE CATEGORY OF GENDER IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1.1. The study of Gender in Modern Linguistics……………………….6-8 1.2. Contradictory Views on Gender in Modern English………………8-10 1.3. The Category of Gender in Germanic languages:
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Grammatical Categories of Speech The main grammatical categories are Determiner‚ Auxiliary‚ Coordinator‚ and Complementizer. As also mentioned above‚ it is hard to define grammatical categories in terms of meaning because they have very little. Their function is to make the lexical categories fit together. • Determiner (D) The determiner category includes the articles a(n) and the‚ as well as demonstratives‚ possessive pronouns‚ possessive nouns‚ some quantifiers‚ some interrogatives‚ and
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CONTENTS Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Part 1 The English adjective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Part 2 Old English adjective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Part 3 Middle English adjective. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Part 4 Early Modern English
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Nouns I. DEFINITION Nouns are the largest group of words in the English language. Nouns may refer language. to: phenomena (ex. Sunshine‚ storm‚ and weather). abstract ideas (ex. Honesty‚ love‚ and loyalty) events (ex. Birthday‚ new year‚ and fiesta) animals (ex. Cat‚ dog‚ and bird) names of persons (ex. Ana‚ nun‚ and datu) names of things (ex. Boat‚ hat‚ and necklace) places (ex. Panay‚ Taal‚ and Borneo) Page 1 of 4 II. DERIVATIONAL NOUNS A noun may be formed by adding
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December 21‚ 2012 The Whipping 1. Who is the speaker? What kind of person is the speaker? a. The speaker could be a neighbor or passenger who observes a domestic scene that reminds him of one similar to his own.. The speaker has a strong sympathy about the boy but also is a coward because the speaker did not stop the woman. 2. Is there an identifiable audience for the speaker? What can we know about it? a. There is no identifiable audience. The speaker is just noticing the woman beating
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8 l SUFFIXES l l l The Suffixes are letters added to the end of words to make new words. (The suffixes change the word class of the words they attached to) - Common Noun Suffixes: 1. –er / -or: these suffixes are added to Verbs to derive nouns of a person who does the a action. Verbs + –er ــــــــــــــــــــــــ> noun of a person
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COMPOUND PERSONAL PRONOUNS: NOTES: 1. Reflexive pronouns act as the object of the verb‚ but they reflect the action back to the subject. These pronouns will always be the same person or thing as the subject. Ex. She blamed herself for the mishap. He hurt himself yesterday. 2. Intensive pronouns simply add force or emphasis to a noun or pronoun that is already in the sentence. Ex. You yourself wrote those words. I prepared the meal myself. EXERCISES: Tell whether the underlined
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Gender From “Critical Terms for Art History” The essential feature of gender in representation is not so much "difference‚" as we are often told‚ but "agreement." To focus on agreement‚ as I will do here‚ enables us to deal not only with the genders depicted in a representation (for example‚ images of women) and with their relations of difference (for example‚ depicted distinctions between men and women). It also enables us to deal with the gender of representation - what has come to be called
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