GENERATIVE GRAMMAR

GRAMMAR II

GENERATIVE GRAMMAR

Teacher: Román Cabezudo Anthony Brenneth

Students: Martinez Ninahuaman, Abigail Valenzuela Huaraca, Selena Rosemarye

PARTS OF SPEECH

VERB

A verb is a word which describes an action (doing something) or a state (being something). Examples: (to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must, talk, think, believe, live, like, want.

Walk

Verb

NOUN

A noun is a naming word. It names a person, place, thing, idea, living creature, quality, or action. Examples: Pen, dog, work, music, cowboy, theatre, box, thought, tree, kindness, arrival

Noun

sings.

Kelly

Verb

PRONOUN

A pronoun is used instead of a noun, to avoid repeating the noun. Examples: I, you, he, she, it, we, they

studies

Pronoun

She

Verb

english.

Noun

ADVERB

An adverb is a word that usually describes a verb. It indicates how, when or where the action was done. Examples: slowly, intelligently, well, yesterday, tomorrow, here, everywhere

Verb

Noun

Adverb

Quickly.

He

Ran

DETERMINER

A determiner is a word which is used at the beginning of a noun group to indicate, whether you are referring to one thing or several. Examples: a, the, some, this, and each.

Verb

Noun

Determiner

run.

The

dog

ADJECTIVE

An adjective is a word that describes a noun. It tells you something about the noun. Examples: big, yellow, thin, amazing, beautiful, quick, important, delicious.

Noun

Verb

Adjective

Determiner

Noun

dress.

Julie

wears

beautiful

PREPOSITION

A preposition usually comes before a noun, pronoun or noun phrase. It joins the noun to some other part of the sentence. Examples: on, in, by, with, under, through, at

Noun

Verb

Noun

Determiner

Preposition

on

She

the

sat

chair.

DEGREE

Degree or adverbs of degree tell us about the intensity of something, they are usually placed before the adjective, adverb or verb they modify. Examples: too much, quite a lot, very and extremely.

Noun

Noun

Verb

Degree

Determiner

is

The

very

house

expensive.

GENERATIVE GRAMMAR

GENERATIVE GRAMMAR

Generative grammar is a theory of grammar that holds that human language is formed by a set of basic principles that are part of the human brain, present in the brain at birth. This "universal grammar," according to linguists such as Noam Chomsky, comes from our innate linguistic faculty.

CHOMSKY TREE

Chomsky's tree rules are intended to show which verb can be placed in which sentence pattern, while the characteristics of different NPs with VP are specified in the selection rules. To explain this in more detail in the formation of a sentence.

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