GRAMMATICAL METALANGUAGE

GRAMMATICAL METALANGUAGE

1. SUBSENTENTIAL LEVEL

   • CRITERIA
     • SEMANTIC
     • FUNCTIONAL
     • STRUCTURAL
       • Position
       • Adjacent function words
       • Constituents
         • possessive inflections
         • plural inflections
         • minimal unit
         • derivational morphemes
   • PARTS OF SPEECH
     • MAJOR WORD CLASSES
       • nouns
         • TYPES
           • common
             • countable
             • uncountable
           • proper
           • collective
         • FUNCTIONS
           • I.O
           • D.O
           • Object noun predicates
           • Subject noun predicates
           • Appositives
           • Objects of prepositions
           • Vocatives
         • GENDER
           • Only certain English nouns
       • verbs
         • INFLECTIONS
           • -s
           • -ed
           • -en
           • -ing
         • TYPES
           • Transitive
           • Ditransitive
           • Linking
           • Intransitive
           • Complex transitive
           • Prepositional
         • TENSES
           • Present
           • Past
           • Future
         • ASPECTS
           • Perfect
           • Progressive
       • adjectives
         • TYPES
           • Attributive
           • Predicative
         • DERIVATIONAL MORPHEMES
           • -ful
           • -able
           • -ish
           • -y
       • adverbs
     • MINOR WORD CLASSES
       • auxiliary verbs
       • prepositions
       • determiners
       • conjunctions

2. SUPRASENTENTIAL LEVEL

3. SENTENTIAL LEVEL