Grammatical units of English. English grammar terms relates to the English language. Some terms here may have additional or extended meanings when applied to other languages. For example, “case” in some languages applies to pronouns and nouns. In English, nouns do not have case and therefore no reference to nouns is made in its definition here. Term Definition active voice one of two voices in English; a direct form of expression where the subject performs or “acts” the verb; see also passive voice eg: “Many people eat rice” adjective part of speech that typically describes or “modifies” a noun eg: “It was a big dog.” adjective clause seldom-used term for relative clause Adjunct word or phrase that adds information to a sentence and that can be removed from the sentence without making the sentence ungrammatical eg: I met John at school. adverb word that modifies a verb, an adjective or […]
Explain various parts of speech with your own examples
Parts of Speech In grammar, a part of speech (also a word class, a lexical class, or a lexical category) is a linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items), which is generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behavior of the lexical item in question. Common linguistic categories include noun and verb, among others. There are open word classes, which constantly acquire new members, and closed word classes, which acquire new members infrequently if at all. A words have been traditionally classified into eight lexical categories, or parts of speech (and are still done so in most dictionaries): Noun: any abstract or concrete entity Pronoun: any substitute for a noun or noun phrase Adjective: any qualifier of a noun Verb: any action or state of being Adverb: any qualifier of an adjective, verb, or other adverb Preposition: any establisher of relation and syntactic context Conjunction: any syntactic […]
How you would differentiate between linguistics and non-linguistics communication?
Explain the concept of Linguistic and non-linguistic Communication? DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LINGUISTIC AND NON LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION As language may not always be used to communicate, so also communication may be possible without necessarily using spoken language. For example sign language. Deaf and dumb people have their own non-linguistic code (gestures and hands signs) to express themselves or to communicate with one another. The linguistic key is the tone, manner or spirit in which an act is performed. Linguistic communication differs from non-linguistic communication. For communicating linguistically, the whole language is available. Sometimes one can communicate in even more than one language, whereas the choices are limited for a non-linguistic communicator, such as, facial expressions, signs and gestures, movements of hands etc. An interesting point here is that even linguistic communication is accompanied by certain elements of non-linguistic communication. While talking a speaker often uses facial expressions and hand movements to convey […]