Adjectives and Adverbs Worksheet, Study notes of Linguistics

Download Adjectives and Adverbs Worksheet and more Study notes Linguistics in PDF only on Docsity! ! ! ! ! Adjectives and Adverbs Worksheet ! This worksheet will test your knowledge of Adjectives and Adverbs and the content covered in the respective iTunes U course unit. If you haven’t covered this section, it is advised you do so to be able to work through the following worksheet. ! Once you’ve finished all the questions on this worksheet, you can find the answers on the attached answer sheet (we’re trusting you not to cheat!). If you don’t fully understand, take some time to revisit the course unit. Good luck! ! 1) Adjectives and adverbs can be described as ‘words that describe things or processes’. This definition is not sufficient at this level of linguistics. This definition is called the ‘______’ definition’: ! ! Answer: ……………………………………………………………………… ! 2) To classify adjectives and adverbs more accurately we can use look for certain criteria. Circle the two correct distributional criteria categories from that the following that we can use to accurately identify adjectives and adverbs: ! ! Semantic Morphological Syntactic Lexical ! ! 3) The following sentences all contain made up words. Using the distributional criteria you should have learnt from the course unit, identify the words you think are examples of adjectives and then use the extra space provided to explain how you came to your decision. ! a) The defubrical cheep-cheep rubluped it’s bloofly chongs. ! Adjectives: ………………………………………..… & …………………………………………………… Explanation: ! ! ! ! ! ! b) A scarabtilian gutterfree was more ghellied than the others. ! Adjectives: ………………………………………..… & …………………………………………………… Explanation: ! ! ! ! ! ! ! b) The most vulkish dasdin fangoed the luyable kindan. ! Adjectives: ………………………………………..… & …………………………………………………… Explanation: ! 
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