2. Content and function words,
Active and Passive words,
General and Special Words , and
Rules of word structure
3. Content and function words
Content words are Full of meaning, and they form the core
of the communicative message of the sentence. Normally,
they include nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, and
adverbs. Function words are not so important to the general
meaning of the sentence although they are essential to its
grammaticality . They partly include prepositions,
conjunctions, and articles. They are sometimes called
grammatical words.
4. Content and function words
For example:
Nouns:
John, room, answer
Adjectives:
happy, new, large, gray
Verbs:
search, grow, hold, have
Adverbs:
really, completely, very, also,
enough
5. Content and function words
First content words are much more in
number, most words in language lexicon
are content words.
types of
words differ
in several
ways
Second, the sentence may be exclusively
formed by content words, but no sentence
can be structured by function words only,
e.g., cats love mice.
6. Content and function words
types of
words differ
in several
ways
Fourth, content
words in a language
grow in number as
time passed on and
as the language
grow in number as
time passes on and
as the language
develops, but
function words do
not normally
increase in number
with the passage of
time .
Third, if the
content words of
a sentence are
omitted, nothing
remains of its
communicative
message.
8. Active and Passive words
The words that someone use in a language some
words are Actively used when he speak or
write it .
The others are Passively used (or rarely) he
understand when he hear or read it almost
never used while talking .
9. Active and Passive words
Shop? shop
Some active word can be passive to other person.
10. Active and Passive words
Shop?
After years
Its been long time since saying it .
11. Active and Passive words
For explain..
The way your grandparents or your parents talk you it
may be a passive to you but its active to them .
Turn
Active passive
Turn
* The word move in a circle , the reason that it’s a circle?
The need for the word .
12. Active and Passive words
The old English that used in litreture is passive but because we
use it , it become active like:
13. Active and Passive words
This words become active because we used it just now.
Shall I compare thee to a summers day ?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate .
(William Shakespear)
passive
active
The word is
control by age and
educational level
..
14. Chair
Door
Window
Man
Boy
Home
Pen
Book
School
car
Stress
Nuclear
Proton
Photon
Voiceless
Semi-vowel
Light year
Input
Nebula
What is the different between a two
lists?
When we use it?
Used by who..??
When we can search about the
meaning of these words??
15. General and Special Words
Chair
Door
Window
Man
Boy
Home
Pen
Book
School
Car
…so on
This group is general words used in
everyday life by most or all people.
16. General and Special Words
Stress
Nuclear
Proton
Photon
Voiceless
Semi-vowel
Light year
Input
Nebula
These words are used in
specialized fields like: electricity ,
astronomy , physics , medicine and
computer science.
17. General and Special Words
General words
General dictionaries
Ex:
Picture : drawing
Image : the picture that you see
18. General and Special Words
Special words
Specialized dictionaries
Q :
Give two examples for special words and
Search about the meaning ?
There are a gifts…
19. Rules of word structure
build
Control rules + phonemic string = syllable
build
Control rules+ morphemic string = words
build
Control rules + word string = sentence
20. Rules of word structure
The rules set the (phonemic , morphemic ,
syntactic system , respectively) in other word
the correct place .
E.G : the word its un + wanted=?
wanted + un=
Why..?
Because the rules tell where we put it and the
word become tidy
21. Rules of word structure
Morphological
rules
Every affix has a
specified position in
relation to the root .
some affixes come only
before the precfixes ,
after suffixes and inside
infixes.
Every affix is used with
a certine part of speech
and may not be usable
with other parts .
22. Rules of word structure
For example:
A- let + root noun =booklet , leaflet.
B- ness + adjective =smallness , greatness.
C- en + adjective =widen , blacken.
23. Team work :
Reem Ali Alosaimi
Hela Alyousef
Bushra Hamdi
Latifah Alshibani
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