Post on 13-Dec-2015
We’ve seen that the position of a word can help us identify its syntactic category.
Nouns, Verbs, or Adjectives?
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=Grammatical category-> 품사 구분
Using the tools introduced in the chapter to help you identify the syntactic category of a word, label the category of each of the following boldfaced word. Explain your answers by showing how the word behaves morphologically and syntactically like other words in a particular category (such as the position in which the word occurs or whether the word can take affixes.)
a. Horatio was very disappointed when he found
out that he couldn’t father children.
b. A very conscientious father, Horatio tried not to
disappoint his children by missing their birthdays.
to 부정사 : to + V
c. Loudly playing the drums is Horatio’s only
means of relaxation.
d. Horatio was playing the drums when the
hurricane hit.
V + -ing : Noun have object
Be + -ing : Verb
e. Loud playing of drums disturbs the neighbors.
f. Those annoying drums should be off limits to
people like Horatio.
NP PP
V + -ing : Noun have object
g. We should videotape Horatio playing the drums.
h. We could get a lot of money on eBay for that videotape.