"warmths" - 1 õppematerjal

Inglise keele struktuur

*King's famous College, *the beautiful Hague) - may undergo processes of lexical morphology: un-Joneslike, Jonesian - open class words Common nouns: - count (denote individual countable entities): dog, pen, chair - noncount (denote an undifferentiated mass or continuum): water, gold, sugar, furniture Concrete vs. Abstract: (semantic distinction) concrete: table, milk abstract: love, thought, idea remark--remarks, warmth--*warmths One class or more: Nouns in English can be assigned to a primary or default class. Nevertheless, it is often possible to coerce a noun from one class to another, with a concomitant meaning change. Proper count: There are three Evas in the class. Count noncount (mass): After the accident, there was cat all over the road. Mass count: The waitress brought three waters to the table. - dual class membership: some nouns can be seen from the point of view of count or