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January 31 learning englishIt's time to learning English well.
1.A morpheme is the minimal distinctive grammatical unit, and is the lowest unit in grammatical hierarchy. morpheme are actually abstract elements of analysis. what occurs is an orthographic form in writing termed "morph" which realizes morpheme.
2.A free morpheme is a morpheme that has a meaning of its own can be used independently. a free morpheme can be a simple word or the root of a derivative.
3.A bound morpheme is morpheme that doesn't have a meaning of its own can't be used independently. Bound morpheme only possess additional or grammatical, meaning.
4.An allomorphe is undistinctive variant of a morpheme.
5.The finite clauses are the ones that have subjects and finite verb as predicates.
6.The non-finte clauses are the ones that leave subjects unsaid and verbs in non-finite forms.
7.The complex sentence is a sentence that contains more than one clause that are joined together by subordinating
one to another.
8.Statements is a form of simple sentences are the foundation stone of all the English sentences. their primary function is to convey information, in a positive way or in a negative way. there are two major types of statements. on a polarty- positive statemenets and negative statemenets.
9.WH-qusetion
They cover all questions that normally begin with WH-series of words, i.e. what,when,where,why,who(m),whose,which and now. spoken with a final falling tone. they are sometimes called "information questions" because they require some specific information in the reply. Rather, they ask for detail about a part of it.
10.Alternative questions
They fall into two subclassess: one is formed on the basis of Yes-No questions; the other on the basis of WH-questions. they suggest two (or more) alternatives and usually imply that one of them could be true. they expect one of the suggested answer.
11.How-exclamations
This exclamation is introduced by how. "How" is an adverb. It highlighting the adjective,adverb, or verb in exclamations.
12.Semi-negatives
Semi-negatives refer to words which are negative in meaning but not in appearance. they include seldom,rarely,scarcely,hardly,barely,little,few,etc... they similarities to the ordinary negative items are such that they are followed by non-assertive rether than assertive words and that they are folloed by positive rather than negative tag questions.
13.Transferred negative
Transferred negative refers to the shift of negation from the subordinate clause (usually a that-clause), where it semantically belong to, the main clause. It normally occurs with such verbs as think,believe,suppose,inagine and expect, that is, verbs that express "opinion".
14.Commands
Commands are also called directives. It is used by the speaker or writer when they intend to get things done. they typically take the form of an imperative sentence and the main verb in an imperative sentence takes the base form and the sentence generally goes without a subject. negative imperatives are generally formed by adding "don't" (or do not)
in the initial positive and substituting non-assertives for assertives where applicable.
15.Non-assertion
A non-assertion sentence is either an interrogative sentence or a negative sentence. It is associated to non-assertive words and negative words.
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