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Part of Speech Lecture 12022
Part of Speech Lecture 12022
1.Noun 1. Preposition
2.Adjective 2. Conjunction
3.Verb 3. Pronoun
4.Adverb 4. Interjection
5. Determiner
Student Activity
Identify the parts of speech of the underlined words
1. To see the lecturer, you must book an appointment.
2. Flying aeroplanes can be dangerous.
3. I am satisfied with the attitude of the students towards studies.
4. ‘Come’ is a verb.
HOW TO IDENTIFY WORD CLASS
Examples
i. Dzifa ate the food.
ii. The school authorities have sent the boarders home.
iii. Sometimes, parents send their children to school.
iv. The teacher commended the students.
v. John is washing the car.
Passive Voice
A verb is said to be in the passive voice when its form signifies that
something is done to the subject.
That is, if a subject receives the action expressed by a verb, that verb is
in the Passive Voice.
The subject does not perform any action but rather it is acted upon.
The object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive.
Passive Forms of the Active Forms
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Functions of the agentless/short passive
• It enables us to drop something that will be
obligatory in the active i.e. the subject of the
active.
• It enables speakers to distance themselves from
certain obligations and commitments.
Prepositional Passives
• In such constructions the subject of a passive may relate to an object
of a preposition rather than the verb.
• The preposition is usually stranded; no actual complement follows it,
but we can understand the complement as being retrieved from the
subject.
Examples
i a. The VC is looking into the case.
i b. The case is being looked into.
ii a. He took advantage of her.
ii b. She was taken advantage of.
Rewrite each of the following sentences by changing the verb into the passive
voice.
1. The patient takes the medicine two times a day.
2. Your parents will find out the truth.
3. The girls were making too many calls.
4. An armed robber stole my mother’s jewellery.
5. We advised the youth to live chaste lives.
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Change the following sentences which are in the passive voice to
active voice
1. The keys have been handed to the new tenant by the landlord.
2. The children will be taught how to swim at the programme.
3. A parcel was delivered at the S.T.C. bus terminal by my father.
4. The dog is sometimes frightened by a strange noise.
5. An appeal is being made by the staff of KNUST
ADJECTIVE USAGE
1. Gradable adjectives: positive, comparative and superlative
2. Rules on adjective sequence (Assignment)
3. Functions of adjectives
4. Adjectives used as nouns (nominal adjectives):
1. They are structurally singular
2. They always accept plural verbs (e.g. The righteous are always happy.)
Comparison of Adjective