Oct 19, 2009

Studying made fun.

I have been studying a lot lately.  Seeing as it is mid-terms, studying is to be expected.  Everyone knows that studying is rarely the most fun way to obtain information, but sometimes it can be entertaining.  What I am talking about is the Linguistic Anthropology "Parts of Speech Primer" which my professor wrote.  It contains multiple examples of parts of speech within sentences, and many of these sentences really make me smile.  Here are a few examples:
"Verbs may be used with the auxiliary verbs have and beand the inflectional suffixes -ing, -ed, -en to form perfect and progressive tenses and passives (see tenses below),Have you ever seen such an ugly baby?"
"present perfect progressive (continuous in the past but now complete): Gladys has been poisoning pigeons in the park.
"past progressive (continuous in the past): Horst was making chlorine in his bedroom."
"Adverbs₁ may be found in the predicate modifying the verb (generally they answer the questions ‘how?’ or ‘when’ or ‘where’): I always₁ drink tea with vodka."
"Somebody ate the tulips. Nobody seemed disturbed." 
"relative pronouns: who, whom, that, which, when, whereand why are all called relative pronouns when they begin a relative clause (a clause embedded in a noun phrase as a complex adjective); adding ever makes these indefinite: The man whom you fired just got a firearms license.  I have a secret place where I keep those naughty pictures of you. Give me one good reason why I shouldn’t marry my brother."

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