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| refer to things relatively near (this, these) or to thing relatively far away (that, those) |
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| used to ask questions (Who, What, Whose, You) |
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same forms as other pronouns but are used differently
Ellen's a doctor -who- specializes in gerontology.
The show -that- won most awards is "60 Minutes." |
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| the name used for a set of pronouns whose referents are identifiable but not specified (one, some someone, anyone, everyone, no one, somebody, anybody) |
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precede pronouns (a book, the plays, this problem, those guys)
definite: the, a, an
demonstratives: this, that
possessives: my, our, your, her
interrogatives: which, what, whose |
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a class with few enough members that they can be enumerated (deleted)
Ex: of, with, to |
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suckiest of all
cannot be identified by form alone
usually identified though by -ly
loudly, soundly, quickly |
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| Coordinating conjunctions |
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| serve to conjoin expressions of the same category (and, but, or) |
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| Subordinating conjunctions |
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| link clauses to one another in a coordinated role (that, whenever, while, because) |
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a root whose meaning or lexical category has been modified by the addition of elements
true (one morpheme)
untrue (two morphemes)
untruthfulness (five morphemes) |
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morphemes that can stand alone
true |
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morphemes that cannot stand alone
un- |
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| transform a word into another word that has a related meaning but belongs to a different lexical category |
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| new words from exiting words in two ways: they change the meaning of a word (true versus untrue) or they change a word's lexical category (true versus truly) |
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changes the form of a word but not its lexical category or its central meaning
collect-ed
sleep-s
loud-er |
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morphemes at the end of stems
commit-ment |
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morphemes in front of stems
un-true
dis-appear
re-paint |
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| a morpheme that occurs in two parts (rare in English) |
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| occur in the middle of a morpheme (rare in English) |
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blending of morphemes
smog (smoke+fog) |
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| process by which a morpheme or part of a morpheme is repeated to create a new word with a different meaning or a different category |
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putting words together to create a new word
pay phone
phone call
breakup
training course
petroleum engineer |
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shortening words and multiplying the words of a language
jet for jet airplanes
feds for federal agents |
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| a word belonging to one category can be converted to another category without any changes to the form of the word |
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