Week 2- Practice Exercises
1. Name the five main lexical categories, i.e. parts of speech.
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2.
Provide your own definition of nouns. Then name the two main subcategory of the nouns that you
learned in the lecture. Give two examples for each subcategory.
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3. State whether the following nouns are count or non-count. Then provide an example for each.
Note that some nouns can be both count and non-count depending on the context.
a. coffee
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b. toothbrush
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c. mail
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d. baggage
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e. information
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f.
honesty
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g.
furniture
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h. hair
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i.
beans
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j.
speech
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4. Identify the noun phrases(NPs) in the following sentences.
a. The dog might bite that boy.
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b. This is a picture of Mary.
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c. The mechanic fixed our car.
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d. The customer requested for more cold water.
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e. The police looked through their records.
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f. Joan could bring some food to the gathering.
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5. Now identify the nouns (not noun phrases) in each of the sentences in (4). Then use morphological
and syntactic tests to show why they are nouns.