• Aucun résultat trouvé

NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES

N/A
N/A
Protected

Academic year: 2022

Partager "NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES"

Copied!
7
0
0
En savoir plus ( Page)

Texte intégral

(1)

NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES

LICENSE 3RDYEAR

ACADEMIC YEAR: 2019-2020 COLLECTED BY: DR F.ABI-AYAD

(2)

COMPARE THESE SENTENCES:

The efficiency of the machine depends on the precision of its construction.

Precise construction results in an efficient

machine.

(3)

• The first sentence uses the nouns ‘efficiency’ and

‘precision’. The second uses adjectives: ‘precise’ and

‘efficient’.

• Although the meaning is similar the first sentence is more formal. Effective academic writing requires

accurate use of both nouns and adjectives

.

(4)

Noun Adjective Noun Adjective approximation approximate particularity particular superiority superior reason reasonable strategy strategic synthesis synthetic

politics political economy economic/al industry industrial culture cultural

exterior external average average height high reliability reliable

heat hot strength strong

confidence confident truth true

width wide probability probable

necessity necessary length long

danger dangerous relevance relevant

(5)

* COMPARE THE THREE NOUNS:

Economics is a demanding undergraduate degree course. (academic subject)

The Greek economy is heavily in debt. (national economy, countable)

Economy is needed to reduce the deficit. (saving money, uncountable)

(6)

ABSTRACT NOUNS

• A range of nouns is used to express common ideas in academic writing:

Political geography is an interesting field.

The concept of class was first discussed in the eighteenth century.

Drucker developed a new approach in his second book.

(7)

TASK: Look for the adjectives or nouns of the following words

process organisation machine theory

event types

worry answer area views

cause feature

problem

Références

Documents relatifs

Sample lists are word fre- quency lists – with words-constituents of direct and figurative meanings descriptions, in our case the word golden; they are the components of

First and foremost, we must no- tice that three idioms for every type of variants (Linear DSM, Structured DSM and iMWN) ob- tained a 0.0 score for all the variant-based indices since

The following factors have been previously demonstrated to be significant in classifying French adjective placement: lemmas as a better gauge of corpora rather than raw counts of

Systems like OLLIE, which can only extract triples corresponding to relations expressed through verb phrases, can be assisted by T RIPLEX , which extracts triples from

Does the presence of noun dependents affect the position of the adjective in sentence production. Results noPP PP 0 50 100

In this paper, we have provided a set of rules to predict the possible interpretations of the derived noun vn-sha, depending on the properties of the system of argument

We show synchronous games in which the social optimum (a pair of actions for which the sum of the players’ gains is maximized) is not a rational choice for the players but in

They included the most common verbs, nouns, adjectives, and adjective-noun combinations used in the experts’ opinions on definitions of human and machine intelligence from

In particular, we (1) investigate the role of con- text in accurately capturing semantic anomalies and implement a system based on distributional topic coherence, which

Use the adjectives, nouns and adverbs from the top line in the box with the present and past participles from the bottom line to fill in

SUFFIXE ADJECTIF MASCULIN ADJECTIF FÉMININ NOM -été habile, rare, honnête,.. propre,

Conçu et fabriqué en France, le revêtement bénéficie d’une couche d’usure compacte transparente de 0.80 mm, d'un décor imprimé et de la technologie D3S core composée

Pour en avoir le cœur net, il se saisit de nouveau du rameau d’olivier, l’introduisit dans le trou et le remua dans tous les sens pour débusquer une quelconque créature hostile..

The analogy is about the internal structure of the unity (discrete versus continuous structure): the compatibility from a few emotion verbs with the inchoative form is

In this work we tested whether a series of compositionality indices that compute the distributional similarity between the vector of a given expression and the vectors of its

As pointed out in the introduction, Oyharçabal (2006) has developed an analysis of Basque DP-internal adjective ordering (in fact, of Basque DP-internal constituent ordering)

Let us recall (cf. §6.3.2) that, according to him, in a certain period the local cases lacked morphologized number opposition. By con- trast, the grammatical cases did have this

L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des

In French, an adjective is usually placed after the noun it modifies and must agree in gender and number with the noun.. In English, an adjective usually comes before the noun

joli (jolie), pretty mauvais (mauvaise), bad nouveau (nouvelle), new petit (petite), little vieux (vieille), old.. ordinal

Or, mais and puis are usually placed at the very beginning of the second sentence.. Donc is usually placed either at the beginning or right after the conjugated verb of the

The general characteristics of various schools of grammar are presented briefly in order for the reader to follow more easily the line adopted by the author in her

Second, behavioural paradigms do not allow to disentangle whether different or longer processes observed in a specific task strictly reflect linguistic processes or