Homework

Identify the class and subclass of the words in bold: Noun (countable; non-countable);
Verb (auxiliary, copulative, transitive, intransitive); Adjective (attributive, predicative);
Adverb; Preposition; Determiner (article, possessive, demonstrative, quantifier);
Pronoun (personal, possessive, demonstrative, relative, indefinite).

It has been ambitious and plucky of me to attempt to describe what is indescribable, and I
have failed, as I knew I would. But I have discharged my duty to my society; and besides, a
writer, like an acrobat, must occasionally try a stunt that is too much for him. At any rate, it is
worth reporting that long before the circus comes to town, its most notable performances have
already been given. Under the bright lights of the finished show, a performer need only reflect
the electric candle power that is directed upon him; but in the dark and dirty old training rings
and in the makeshift cages, whatever light is generated, whatever excitement, whatever
beauty, must come from original sources - from internal fires of professional hunger and delight,
from the exuberance and gravity of youth. It is the difference between planetary light and the
combustion of the stars. (White 1934: 145)

ambitious - adjective attributive

me - personal pronoun
failed - adjective predicative
discharged - transitive verb
my - possessive pronoun
duty - non-countable noun
society - countable noun
an - determiner article
must - countable noun
stunt - countable noun
too - adverb
long - adverb
its - possessive determiner
most - adverb
already - adverb
Under - preposition
the - determiner article
need - transitive verb
reflect - transitive verb
that - relative pronoun
makeshift - adjective
whatever - adverb
beauty - countable noun
exuberance - non-countable noun
difference - countable noun
between - preposition
planetary - adjective

Show that the underlined words in the sentences belong to different categories,
using morphological and distributional criteria.

(1) She's in an up mood. - distribuição

(2) He upped the ante. - morfologica, flexão
(3) Life is full of ups and downs. - morfologica, flexão
(4) They live just up the street from us. - distribuição
(5) The balloons rose up into the sky. - distribuição
(6) The dog tore up the slipper. - morfologica, flexão

True or false? In the sentence All shopping centres in the world look exactly alike:

(i) all is a determiner

(ii) in is an verb particle
(iii) the is an adjective
(iv) exactly is a verb
(v) alike is an adjective

Falso, em “in” é um adverb.

“the” é um determiner.
“exactly” é um adverb.

“alike” e “all” estão corretos.

Francisco Carvalho
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