Parts of Speech


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sept5-07

Right and Straight

  • Adjectives:
    • *right red
    • *right conspicuous
    • ?right smart
  • Prepositions

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

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