Wednesday, January 14, 2009

HMT504: The Grammar Book (1999) - Perkataan & Kata Nama

  1. The notional, or semantic, definition of a noun is ... the name of a person, place, or a thing. some linguists add "or idea' to account for abstract nouns .... (15)
  2. ... [N]ouns have endings or derivational morphems that formally indaticate that a word is a noun .... They also have grammatical morhemes or inflections for plural and possessive. (15-16)
  3. In terms of their position, they are frequently preceded by determiners.... (16)
  4. ... [N]ouns serve functionally as subject of verbs. They can also ... be:
    • direct object of verbs: Dia menyiram Labu.
    • subject of noun predicates: Kita pelajar.
    • object of noun predicates: Mereka melantik Obama presiden.
    • indirect object of verbs: Obama memberikan Amerika harapan.
    • appositives: Taiping, bandar tertua di Taiping dalam sejarah koloni Inggeris di Perak, mempunyai taman tasik terindah di Malaysia.;)
    • objects of prepositions: Taman Tasik Taiping terletak di Taiping.;)
    • vocatives: Baik aku beritahu engkau, sahabatku, kelas ini mengarut. (16, contoh telah diubahsuai)


Celce Murcia, Marianne & Diane Larsen-Freeman (1999) The Grammar Book: An ESL / EFL Teacher's Course, Second Edition. United States of America: Heinle & Heinle Publishers.

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