Grammatical Units

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Dr. Shadia Y. Banjar http://wwwdrshadiabanjar.blogspot.com

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 Grammatical Notions
Basic grammatical notions:
– form and function;
– grammatical unit,
– grammatical class,
– part of speech,
– grammatical category,
– grammatical function

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 Grammatical Units

sentence

Grammatical
clause word
Units

phrase

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 Word classes
The main word classes are:
1. verb,
2. noun,
3. adjective,
4. adverb,
5. preposition,
6. determiner,
7. Pronoun, and
8. conjunction.
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 Phrases

There are these kinds of phrase:

1.verb phrase,
2.noun phrase,
3.adjective phrase,
4.adverb phrase, and
5.prepositional phrase.

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 Clauses

Clauses are:
1.Main clauses
2.Subordinate clauses

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 Sentences
Sentences are:
1.Simple,
2.Compound
3.Complex

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