Name: Lourdes A.

Soliva Date: June 14, 2022

EL2 : Structures of English

WORKSHEET NO. 2

Instructions
LET’S INITIATE! Activity 1. Let us try to check your understanding of the topics. Write your
answers on the space provided below every after the questions. Describe the following criteria:

1. Semantic

Familiarize the definitions of the categories. To easily identify what part of speech the word is,
you have to understand its meaning. For example, the word "happy" is defined as a feeling of
contentment or excitement. If you are able to understand its meaning, you immediately identify
what part of speech is the word "happy." We can easily tell that it's an adjective if we know that
adjective describes a noun or pronoun, and the word “happy” describes a feeling.

2. Structural

Aside from meaning you can also identify word classes through their structural or their position
in a sentence. For example, if you can use will, should, would, may, must, might, have to, ought
to, and can... then the word is probably a verb.
Ex. He (might stay, will go, should come, must leave) home.

3. Functional

The best way to identify a word's part of speech is to think about what role the word plays in the
sentence. For example, Ryan showed up for work two hours late. In the first sentence
below, work functions as a noun; in the second sentence, a verb; and in the third sentence, an
adjective. The noun work is the thing Ryan shows up for.
LET’S INQUIRE! Activity 1. In this activity, you are required to expound your answer to each
of the questions below.

1. Differentiate the major and minor word classes.

Major word classes are words that have meaning. They are words we would look up in a
dictionary, such as "lamp," "computer," "drove." major word classes have thousands of
members, and new nouns, verbs, and other words are being created every day. Therefore, we
refer to content words as an "open" class. On the other hand, minor word classes are words
that exist to explain or create grammatical or structural relationships into which the content
words may fit. Words like "of," "the," "to," they have little meaning on their own. Therefore, we
refer to minor word class as a "closed" class. These are
pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, determiners, qualifiers/intensifiers, and interrogatives

2. Differentiate derivational morphemes and inflectional morphemes

The difference between inflectional and derivational morpheme is that Inflectional morphemes
never change the grammatical category of a word. For example, smart and smarter are both
adjectives. The inflectional morpheme -er simply produces a different version of the adjective
smart. While, derivational morpheme often change the part of speech of a word. A derivational
morpheme is an affix we add to a word in order to create a new word or a new form of a word
that can either change the meaning or the grammatical category of the word For example, the
verb " help". If we add derivational morpheme -er , the verb "help" becomes "helper," which is
no longer a verb but a noun.