MLI 3 Material for 15th October

Worksheet 1 - Read Chapter One   of Mastering Advanced English  Language (The Structure of English) then complete.

1. Give definitions of the following terms:

Grammar 

Morphology

Syntax

Discourse

Form

Function

Phrase

Head word

Pre-modifiers

Post-modifier/qualifier

     2. Give examples of the following:

Open class words

Closed class words

Common nouns

Concrete nouns

Abstract nouns

Countable uncountable nouns

Collective nouns

modifiers

Static verbs

Dynamic verbs

Transitive verbs

Intransitive verbs

Lexical  verbs

Auxiliary verbs

Modal  verbs

The perfect aspect of verbs

The  progressive aspect

                     Finite verbs

Non-finite verbs

Adverbs of time, manner, frequency, place

Adverbs of degree

Sentence adverbs –disjuncts/conjuncts

Pronouns with  a deictic function

 The five main type of determiner

Co-ordinating conjunctions

Subordinating conjunctions

Free morphemes

Bound morphemes

Words formed by derivational morphology

 Words formed by inflectional morphology

 A noun phrase