Parts of Speech

Right and Straight

• Adjectives:
• *right red
• *right conspicuous
• ?right smart
• Prepositions
• Straight into the room
• Right on the table

Coming with a question word when it moves (Pied Piping, from a story where kids and rats followed a piper)

• Relative clause
• I saw a man
• The man who I saw ___
• Embedded question
• I know that you saw someone.
• I don’t know who you saw ___.
• Prepositions
• She cut the bread with a knife
• The knife with which she cut it ___
• The knife she cut it with
• I know that you are referring to someone.
• I don’t know to whom you are referring ___
• I don’t know who you are referring to.
• Adjectives
• She is fond of Sam.
• ?The boy fond of whom she is ___
• The boy of whom she is fond __
• The boy who she is fond of ___
• *I don’t know fond of whom she is.
• *I don’t know of whom she is fond ___.
• I don’t know who she is fond of ___.

Worth

• Predication:
• Worth over a million dollars, the jewels were kept under surveillance.
• *Worth over a million dollars, there will be ample opportunity for a lavish lifestyle.
• Become
• What might have been a $200 first edition suddenly became worth perhaps ten times that much.

Worth

• Degree modification
• *It was very worth the effort.
• It was very much worth the effort.
• ?It was enough worth the effort.
• ?It was worth the effort enough.
• Followed by a bare NP
• yes

Worth

• Right and straight
• *The land is right worth $100K.
• Comes with a question word?
• She thought the land was worth $100K.
• This was far less than the amount which she thought the land was worth ___.
• *This was far less than the amount worth which she thought the land was ___.

Worth

• Degree modification