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ANAL revision

1 Syntactic categories

Nouns:
 concrete
 abstract
 count
 non-count
 proper
 common

Adjectives:
 Predicative - before
 attributive - after
 comparative - taller
 superlative - tallest
 gradable - long, longer, longest

Verb:
 transitive - takes objects
 intransitive - works on it's own
 ditransitive - can work either way
 copula verb - to be
 auxilliary verbs
o Add info
o can, could, shall, should, will, would, may, might, must
o aspect, voice and modality
o modal verbs show possibility, probability
o epistemic modality - belief or knowledge (may, might, must)
o deontic modality - expectations, desire (shall, hope)

Auxilliary:
N = negation (can not)
I = inversion (sub-aux inversion) but has to have dummy-aux for "Does Sue
like Bill?"
C = code/context (need the context, it is a reply) "he has left"
E = emphasis (on truth of sentece) "Yes he can"

Adverb:
 manner
 time (yesterday, tomorrow, tomorrow, later)
 frequency (often, more etc)
 locative (where, there, here)

Prepositions:
 place (to, from, around, under)
 time (on, it, at, since, by)

Determiners: