Word Labelling WORD LABELLING Objectives To provide indepth
Word Labelling
WORD LABELLING Objectives • To provide in-depth knowledge about teaching of grammar • To help the teacher trainees understand the main characteristics of word labelling
• Key ideas Word is a grammatical unit. It is identified on the basis of morphological and syntactic criteria. • Content When we study a word, we discuss it from four angles. Phonic, Graphic, Grammatical and Lexical.
• Words are potentially complex units, composed of even more basic units, called morphemes. • A morpheme is a meaningful morphological unit of a language that cannot be further divided (e. g. in, come, -ing, forming incoming). -in and –ing are morphemes and cannot be further subdivided.
The grammar of a word is the sum of its behaviour in the structure of a higher linguistic unit. For example look at the way the word ‘round’ appears in the following sentences: • Everybody joins hands and dances round. (Adverb) • The fruits are small and round. (Adjective) • We sat round the fire. (Preposition) • India and Pakistan started the next round of peace talks. (Noun) • The boat rounded the tip of the Island. (Verb)
• “An extremely angry tiger was staring most ferociously from a huge cave. ’’ If we analyse this sentence, we would end up saying that § It is a complex sentence § Made up of a noun phrase (an extremely angry tiger), § a verb phrase (was staring), § an adverbial phrase (most ferociously) § prepositional phrase (from a huge cave). We could further analyse each phrase and say that the noun phrase is made up of words which could be classified as § An article / determinant (an) § two pre – modifiers (extremely, angry) § and a noun (tiger) and so on. .
Form and Function “An extremely angry tiger was staring most ferociously from a huge cave. ’’ • In the sentence the noun phrase ‘an extremely angry tiger’ is functioning as the subject of the sentence. • The prepositional phrase, ‘from a huge cave’ functions as an adjunct. • Terms like noun, verb, adjective, adverb and preposition are formal labels because they are based on the form of the word. • Terms like subject, object, complement are functional labels because they refer to the function a word or phrase performs in a sentences
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