Survey of English Grammar Wiki: Week 4

Nouns and Noun phrases

• Semantic test:
  • Nouns name persons, things or places
• morphological test:
  • Nouns can combine with a plural morpheme (-(e)s)
• syntactic test
  • Nouns can occur with the possessive 's, i.e. in the environment:
• __ 's
  • Nouns can occur between a determiner and a verb, i.e. in the environment: Det __ V

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Exercises on Nouns and NPs

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