The adjective. Types of adj. Degrees of comparison

Classification of verbs:

1. 
   finites – non-finites
   
2. 
   regular – irregular
   
3. 
   notional – semi-notional (auxiliary, link and modal verbs) e.g. The girl is reading. The room is large. The soup tastes delicious. The trousers have grown short. We needn’t have opened the door. We didn’t need to open the door.
   
4. 
   transitive – intransitive · Primary meaning – transitive (I’m reading) · Primary meaning – intransitive (He walks his dog every evening) · It’s difficult to say which meaning is primary (The weather changes. The Dean changed the timetable)
   
5. 
   terminative – non-terminative (durative – non-durative) e.g. close, shut, put, take – sleep, walk, love, live e.g. We are building a cottage – We have built a cottage.
   

According to their semantic structure the finite verbs are divided into:

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  notional which possess full lexical meaning
  
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  seminotional – they have very general faded lexical meaning
  a. auxiliary verbs - they perform purely grammatical function
  b. modal verbs - they express relational meaning, ability, obligation and so on.
  auxiliary – no lexical meaning, only grammatical //do, be 
  c. link verbs -introducing predicative which is expressed by noun,adj,phrase (to seem)
  

Here we’re to mention of the existence of the notional link verbs, this are verbs which have the power to perform the function of link verbs and they preserve their lexical value. Ex:The Moon rose red. Due to the double syntactic character, the hole predicate is reffered to as a double predicate (a predicate of double orientation)

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  Notional verbs - the 1-st categorization on the basis of the subject process relation. The verbs are divided into actional and statal.
  
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  Actional - express the action, performed by the subject (do, act, make)
  
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