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The Adjective and The Adverb - Classifications PDF

The document provides a classification of adjectives and adverbs according to their position, meaning, and subclasses. Adjectives are classified based on whether they are restricted to attributive or predicative position, and based on their semantic meaning. Adverbs are classified based on their classes as circumstantial, degree, or sentence adverbs, based on their comment on the content of the sentence as disjuncts, and based on their semantic meaning as intensifiers.

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The Adjective and The Adverb - Classifications PDF

The document provides a classification of adjectives and adverbs according to their position, meaning, and subclasses. Adjectives are classified based on whether they are restricted to attributive or predicative position, and based on their semantic meaning. Adverbs are classified based on their classes as circumstantial, degree, or sentence adverbs, based on their comment on the content of the sentence as disjuncts, and based on their semantic meaning as intensifiers.

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GRAMMAR II

THE ADJECTIVE

CLASSIFICATION 1: ACCORDING TO THEIR POSITION

RESTRICTED TO ATTRIBUTIVE POSITION

 INTENSIFIERS NON-INHERENT AMPLIFIERS (complete, firm, entire, great, perfect)

EMPHASISERS (certain, clear, mere, outright, plain, simple, true)

 RESTRICTIVE (certain, chief, main, only, precise, principal, specific)


 RELATED TO ADVERBIALS (old, past, possible, present, occasional, hard, big, good)
 DENOMINAL (criminal, atomic, woolen)

RESTRICTED TO PREDICATIVE POSITION

 RELATED TO HEALTH (faint, ill)


 REQUIRING COMPLEMENTATION (afraid of, familiar with)

CLASSIFICATION 2: ACCORDING TO THEIR MEANING

SEMANTIC CLASSIFICATION

 STATIVE / DYNAMIC
 INHERENT / NON-INHERENT
 GRADABLE / ABSOLUTE (NON-GRADABLE)
 MARKED / UNMARKED
THE ADVERB

CLASSIFICATION 1: ACCORDING TO THEIR CLASSES

ADVERBIAL SUBCLASSES

 CIRCUMSTANTIAL (often, gleefully, intentionally, reluctantly)


 DEGREE (extremely, extraordinarily, less, more, pretty, quite, too, very)
 SENTENCE (however, probably, perhaps)

CLASSIFICATION 2: ACCORDING TO THEIR COMMENT ON THE CONTENT OF THE SENTENCE

DISJUNCTS

 STYLE (seriously, personally, strictly speaking, frankly, bluntly, briefly, confidentially,


honestly, in all frankness, put frankly)
 ATTITUDINAL (obviously, to our surprise, of course, unfortunately, certainly, definitely,
indeed, surely, undeniably, maybe, perhaps, possibly, clearly, evidently, apparently,
essentially, curiously, naturally)

CLASSIFICATION 3: ACCORDING TO THEIR MEANING (SEMANTIC)

INTENSIFIERS

 EMPHASISERS (definitely, indeed, really, just, simply)


 AMPLIFIERS MAXIMIZERS (completely, entirely, fully, perfectly, thoroughly, totally,
utterly)

BOOSTERS (badly, bitterly, deeply, greatly, highly, intensely, much,


strongly, terribly)
 DOWNTONERS COMPROMISERS (more or less, sort of, kind of)

DIMINISHERS (mildly, moderately, partially, partly, slightly, somewhat)

MINIMIZERS (hardly, little, scarcely)

APPROXIMATORS (almost, nearly, practically, virtually)

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