영어학개론

사회 20102206 김보성사회 20102219 신아란

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

Mary is walking.

Brisk walking is good for you.

Adj

Auxiliary verb

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.