Minor class categories: Prepositions, conjunctions, determiners.
Major class categories: Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
* Semantic definition
* Morphological behaviour ==> affixes
* Syntactic behaviour ==> location
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Minor class categories: Prepositions, conjunctions, determiners.
Major class categories: Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
* Semantic definition
* Morphological behaviour ==> affixes
* Syntactic behaviour ==> location
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There is also diversity in the structure of sentences across languages in terms of the order of adjectives and nouns.
- In some languages the adjectives occurs before the noun.
- In other languages, the adjective occurs after the noun.
==> AN
French ==> NA
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Preposition
==> In English, Arabic, Polish: Preposition - Noun
In Turkish: Noun - preposition
Finnish: Noun - prepositions
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* Mustafa eats Hummus
- The subject is the performer of the action.
- The first nominal thing in the sentence.
- Mustafa and Faris eat hummus.
- If you change the number of the subject, the verb will be affected.
- eats is the verb because it is the action word.
- Mustafa eats Hummus and falafel
- Hummus is the object because if you change its number, the verb will NOT be affected.
- It is the other nominal thing in the sentence.
- If Mustafa is the subject, then Hummus must be the object.
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* The basic structure in English is:
SVO
OSV
OVS
VSO
VOS
SOV
This shows that there is great diversity across languages when it comes to sentence structure.
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Syntax ==>
Linguistics is your absolute favourite topic to study.
Syntax is a branch of linguistics that is concerned with arranging words within a sentence to make meaning.
Syntax is the scientific study of sentence structure.
Syntax is one of studying language by focusing on sentence formation.
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