Diskusi 1 Grammar Analysis
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Give us two examples of your selected sentences and analyze their word structure and word classes.
Answer:
1. They missed their plane because they were late.
Word structure:
- They: Free morpheme
- Missed: consist of “miss” free morpheme and suffix “ed”. The word “missed” belongs to the inflectional suffix.
- Their: free morpheme
- Plane: free morpheme
- Because: free morpheme
- They: free morpheme
- Were: free morpheme
- Late: free morpheme
Word classes:
- They: refers to a proper noun (subject pronoun)
- Missed: past verb (miss+ suffix “ed”)
- Their: refers to the possessive pronoun
- Because: conjunction
- They : subject pronoun (a proper noun)
- Were : past verb
- Late : adjective
2. I am teaching English and Mary is teaching Biology.
Word structure:
- I : free morpheme
- am : free morpheme
- Teaching : consists of “teach” (free morpheme) + suffix “ing” (inflectional suffix)
- English : free morpheme
- And : free morpheme
- Mary: Free morpheme
- Is : free morpheme
- Teaching : consists of “teach” (free morpheme) + suffix “ing” (inflectional suffix)
- Biology: free morpheme
Word classes:
- I : refers to the subject pronoun
- Am : refers to progressive
- Teaching : refers to verb (progressive)
- English : noun
- And : conjunction
- Mary : subject pronoun
- Is : refers to progressive
- Teaching : refers to verb (progressive)
- Biology: noun