English Grammar: a resource Book for Students
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English Grammar- A Resource Book for Students
Activity A2.6
14 I N T R O D U C T I O N Now while this might be an acceptable statement in pedagogic grammar, we need to go one stage further to distinguish the two uses, and for this purpose we use special terms, ‘count’ and ‘noncount’, for the technical, grammatical meaning, while leaving ‘countable’ and ‘uncountable’ for normal use. Thus ‘Money is countable but money is noncount.’ (e) Many terms are like this; when you are studying grammar (rather than learning about it in a language class) you need terms that are precise in meaning and distinctive in form. Comments Activity A2.1: there are seven: noun, word, class, day, example, chocoholic, text. If the repetitions are included, then 13 of the 44 words in the paragraph are nouns. Activity A2.2: there are four which fit the definition: bomb, carpet, teacher, tree. Activity A2.3: even though you do not know the meaning of glob in each case, you probably worked out that it is a noun in 1, 2 and 3. In 1 the evidence is that it has two in front and has an s added (for plural) – points a) and b); in 2 the clue comes from the fact that is in the company of two other nouns, embarrassment and anger – point b). In 3 it is preceded by a, a determiner – point b). In 4 you probably realised that it is a verb, while in 5 it is not so easy to determine; it could be a noun or adjective, but none of the three tests works for it. So even the formal definition is not perfect. Activity A2.4: all of these words exist in the singular but with different meanings that do not make sense here, or are unidiomatic. Activity A2.5: as you can see, the genitive marks all sorts of relationships between two nouns, usually involving people. In 1 and 2 there is an underlying verbal relation ship, where the genitive marks the object of an underlying verb (‘someone defeated Federer’) or the subject (‘the man died’); or a personal relationship (3 and 4); or an associated feature or attribute (5 and 6). Activity A2.6: accident, dream, journey and programme are count; the others are noncount. Note the difference between journey and travel, though they both refer to basically the same idea. There are other pairs of words like this, for example a difficulty and trouble. Download 1.74 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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