Word Classes In English - Grammatical Categories

Jovanovska, Sashka and Talevska, Marija and Tashkoska, Marija (2024) Word Classes In English - Grammatical Categories. In: Spectrum 6.0: - Bridging Disciplines for Sustainable Development. Eudoxia Research University - USA, New Castle, USA, pp. 238-254. ISBN 979-8344702636

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Abstract

It is now known that the basic sentence consists of a
Noun Phrase (functioning as subject) followed by a Verb Phrase
(functioning as predicate) (Burton-Roberts, 2016, p.65). There are
several examples of VPs, though very little has been said about them.
This chapter deals with the general structure (the immediate
constituents) of the VP half of the basic sentence. As these VPs
illustrate, categories may appear in the VP, including Noun Phrases.
Within the VP, however, NPs have different functions. It’s these
different functions of NP and other categories of phrases that are
going to be mentioned here. There are two kinds of verb in English:
lexical and auxiliary (Burton-Roberts, 2016, p.65). Lexical verbs are
the ones that belong to the indefinitely large general vocabulary of
the language (e.g. run, eat, seem, explain, recycle, shatter, prepare, depend). Auxiliary verbs, by contrast, are a special and very restricted
set of verbs. The clear ones are: be, have, and do (which can also be
lexical) and can/could, will/would, shall/should, may/might, must,
and need. All mentioned verbs will be precisely defined in this paper.
Keywords: grammatical categories, verbs, auxiliary verbs, sentence
constituencies

Item Type:	Book Section
Subjects:	Humanities > Languages and literature Humanities > Other humanities Humanities > Philosophy, ethics and religion
Divisions:	Faculty of Philology
Depositing User:	Saska Jovanovska
Date Deposited:	04 Nov 2024 10:32
Last Modified:	04 Nov 2024 10:32
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/34946

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