tailieunhanh - The grammar book teacher course part 107

Tham khảo tài liệu 'the grammar book teacher course part 107', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Chapter 35 Degree Complements and Superlatives 749 a semantic point of view it seems more sensible to present comparatives and equatives along with verbs adjectives nominals and prepositions such as the following all of which express similarity or difference Verbs Adjectives Nominals Prepositions to differ from NP sound fee to look like NP taste seem to behave like NP to be different from than12 NP to be similar to NP to be taller than NP to be as tail as NP to be equal equivalent to NP to be identical to NP to be alike to be the same as NP to be like NP to be unlike NP Examples John is different from Bill. John is taller than Bill is . Comparatives in our opinion can usefully be considered a complex type of transitive adjective. Superlatives on the other hand should be presented in the context of ordinals and ordinal-like prénommai modifiers that occur in the postdeterminer position Definite Core Determiner Post Determiner Head Noun the my this first second third next last ÎNOUN tÄat S 1 t NOUN prep NP J core post head noun Examples This is my first course. I This is the best course that I have taken. core post head noun core post head noun core post This exercise is your next assignment This exercise is the hardest head noun assignment of the semester. In other words it is useful to classify superlatives as a type of postdeterminer. Lack of Double Marking with Superlatives Solomon s 1994 findings for the use of superlatives in spoken data produced by native English speakers show some differences with comparatives in that no tokens of double marking occurred with superlatives whereas six double-marked tokens occurred with comparatives . more sneakier . She also found only one token of the periphrastic most superlative with a one-syllable adjective vs. 17 tokens of more with one-syllable adjectives for comparatives and this token was a case where most was stressed It s one of the MOST grand sights in New York City. Solomon 1994 17 750 The Grammar Book The 62 .