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    The document discusses lexical word classes and provides exercises to test understanding of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and other parts of speech. It asks the reader to characterize these parts of speech in terms of their morphology, syntax and semantics, and to explain the differences between lexical and auxiliary verbs, primary verbs, lexemes and borderline cases through examples. The exercises are meant to deepen the reader's knowledge of word classes and how they function in language.

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    The document discusses lexical word classes and provides exercises to test understanding of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and other parts of speech. It asks the reader to characterize these parts of speech in terms of their morphology, syntax and semantics, and to explain the differences between lexical and auxiliary verbs, primary verbs, lexemes and borderline cases through examples. The exercises are meant to deepen the reader's knowledge of word classes and how they function in language.

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    Lexical word classes – Exercises

    1. What are the four main classes of lexical words?


    2. Characterize the nouns in: morphological, syntactic and semantic.
    3. What is the difference between lexical verbs and auxiliary verbs?
    4. What are the primary verbs? Why are they call primary verbs? Are they lexical or auxiliary?
    Explain and give examples.
    5. Characterize the lexical verbs in: morphological, syntactic and semantic.
    6. What is a lexeme?
    7. Characterize the adjectives in: morphological, syntactic and semantic.
    8. Characterize the adverbs in: morphological, syntactic and semantic.
    9. What does the graphic on page 23 mean? Why do you think that happen?
    10. What are the borderline cases? Give an example and explain.

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