bhh

pass

-ed, -en,-ing

present tense past tense

-s -ed

Modal auxiliaries (MOD) Perfect auxiliary (PERF) Progressive auxiliary (PROG) Passive auxiliary (PASS)

4 kinds of auxiliary verb

particles

A characteristic of _____________ is that they can appear in a position after the direct object.

auxiliary verbs

A full VP it may contain ________

lexical verb

A full VP must contain a -________

adverb

A word that describes a verb. ends with -ly

non-finite (neither present nor past).

All verbs following an auxiliary verb are

progressive

BE demands that the following verb has the (non finite) -ING form.

primary auxiliaries.

Be, have and do are sometimes called

Present and Past

English has just two tenses

finite verb.

Every sentence must contain a ___________

Perfect

HAVE is always followed by another verb

subject position.

In passive sentences, a gap is created in the object position left by the movement of the object to _____

auxiliary verbs

In questions, ________ can move in front of the subject NP. A lexical verb cannot.

the capula

Intensive verbs be is called?

perf

MOD+PERF+LV

PASS

MOD+PERF+PASS+LV

PROG

MOD+PERF+PROG+LV

sub-categorise the verb.

PPs are optional and can occur with almost any verb, they cannot be used to _______

direct object.

The NP that complements a transitive verb is said to function (more specifically) as its _______

negative particle

The ___________(not or n't) can attach to an auxiliary verb but never to a lexical verb.

Complementizer

The ______________ position is: sister of S and daughter of S-bar (S).

predicative.

The complement of an intensive verb functions (more specifically) as a _________

be.

The most obvious and commonly used intensive verb is ____________

tensed auxiliary.

The negative particle not is placed immediately after the ____________

stem form.

The verb that follows a modal auxiliary always appears in its (non-finite)

lexical and auxiliary.

There are two kinds of verb in English:

verb (V)

Verb Phrase (VP) must contain is a _______. VPs are centred on_______

finite verb forms.

Verb forms that are tensed are traditionally called __________

intensive verb.

When a verb is complemented just by an AP, you can be sure you are dealing with an ______

phrasal verb

a _________ consists of a verb + a particle.

transitive verb

a verb that has a direct object

Complex transitive

a verbs take two complements: a direct object (NP) and an object-predicative.

verb

action word ends with -ed,- ing -s

VPs

adjunct adverbials are modifiers of _______

adjunct adverbials.

adverb phrases (AdvP) can also function as ________

noun

after the words THE its either noun or adjectives

adjective

after the words very, too

modals

always tensed (finite).

lexical verb;

auxiliary verbs (if present) always precede the ________

pass

be, been, being, is, was -en, -ed

prog

be, is, was, being -ing

mod

can/could

adjective

describing words

adjective

ends with -er, est higher, highest

be, have, and do and can/could, will/ would, shall/should, may/might, must, and need.

example of auxiliary verb

at in on above between before

example of preposition

perf

have, has, had -en

modal verb

in a sequence of verbs, there can be only one__________

pronoun

instead of a noun i, me ,you

intransitive verb

is one that does not require any further constituent

whether lexical or auxiliary

it is always just the first verb - ___________ - that displays the tense distinction between present and past;

Ditransitive verbs

require TWO NPs as complements

Intensive verbs

require a single complement, which can take the form of an AP, NP, PP

adjunct adverbials

sisters of Verb Phrase (VP).

(1) transitive, (2) intransitive, (3) ditransitive, (4) intensive, (5) complex transitive, (6) prepositional.

six sub-categories of lexical verbs:

Preposition

tell something about the location or direction of noun or subject

transitive

the direct object position required by a _________ verb won't be filled in the passive.

a sequence of verbs

the form of a verb is determined by the verb that precedes it.

subject

the object in an active sentence becomes the ________ of the corresponding passive sentence.

complements

the verb are sisters of Verb (V)

det

the, that, a, this

●

this gap with a conspicuous blob: .

Predicatives

used to attribute properties to the things referred to by other expressions.

lexical verbs

verbal inflections -s, -ing, -ed, -en.

Prepositional

verbs are called 'prepositional' because they can only be complemented by a PP.