Chapter 4. Form-class Words - English Grammar and Phonology

This chapter breaks down the form and function of speech. Form means the word itself and what it makes up of and the function means the context and placement that it is used in. Even more specifically there are four parts of speech are, nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.

Identifying Nouns:
1. Has a noun making morpheme
2. Can occur with a plural morpheme
3. Can occur as a possessive morpheme
4. With out modifiers it can directly follow an article and create a grammical unit
**Frame Sentences also help identify nouns by giving a blank in the sentence and understanding that only one word can go there

Gerunds- verbs that act as nouns in sentences
**There are two types of Noun Subclasses. The first being common. Common nouns have "a, an or the" at the beginning of the word and Proper Nouns usually are capitalized and names a place, person or event.

Identifying Verbs:

Verb= express actions
-One identifies a verb by the form, degree or the intensifier.


Identifying Adjectives:

Adjective- Links or modifies other words.
There are two types of adjectives:
1. Attibutive= Before noun 2. Predictive= after noun


Identifying Adverbs:

Adverb= Modifies a verb
*One identifies adverb by the form and function of the word.
**Usually ends in "ly"