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Anonymous Posted 4 years ago
Grammar
A lexeme
take is a lexeme;
overtake is the lexeme modification;
overtook and overtaken are the syntactic inflections of the modified lexeme.
Am I correct?
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anonymous Am I correct? If you are correctly using the terminology of the textbook you're using, then yes. I'd say take is a lexeme and overtake is also a lexeme.
- anonymous Am I correct?
- If you are correctly using the terminology of the textbook you're using, then yes.
- I'd say take is a lexeme and overtake is also a lexeme.
- overtake is a derivational lexeme from take .
- overtook and overtaken are, as you say, inflectional lexemes of overtake .
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anonymousAm I correct?
If you are correctly using the terminology of the textbook you're using, then yes.
I'd say take is a lexeme and overtake is also a lexeme. overtake is a derivational lexeme from take.
overtook and overtaken are, as you say, inflectional lexemes of overtake.
CJ
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