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Chikaine Posted 21 years ago
Grammar
And yet
In the sentence "I knew I should work , and yet I watched TV", is the word "yet" an averb or a subordiante conjunction (provided that a coordination one cannot be preceded by and) ??
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Hello Chiklaine (1) I knew I should work, and yet I watched TV I think you can take the 'yet' as an adverb. Though OED and Webster do not mention anything about it, my E-J dictionary is classifying the 'yet' of the collocation 'and/but yet' as an adverb. I personally think it is not very useful for learners to know what part of speech such a word like 'yet' belongs to.
- Hello Chiklaine (1) I knew I should work, and yet I watched TV I think you can take the 'yet' as an adverb.
- Though OED and Webster do not mention anything about it, my E-J dictionary is classifying the 'yet' of the collocation 'and/but yet' as an adverb.
- I personally think it is not very useful for learners to know what part of speech such a word like 'yet' belongs to.
- The current system of English word classification was formed basically to accord with the module of Latin grammar.
- But the word like 'yet' is so Teutonic in origin that it looks not quite fit to the classification.
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Hello Chiklaine
(1) I knew I should work, and yet I watched TV
I think you can take the 'yet' as an adverb. Though OED and Webster do not mention anything about it, my E-J dictionary is classifying the 'yet' of the collocation 'and/but yet' as an adverb.
I personally think it is not very useful for learners to know what part of speech such a word like 'yet' belongs
(1) I knew I should work, and yet I watched TV
I think you can take the 'yet' as an adverb. Though OED and Webster do not mention anything about it, my E-J dictionary is classifying the 'yet' of the collocation 'and/but yet' as an adverb.
I personally think it is not very useful for learners to know what part of speech such a word like 'yet' belongs
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Paco,
My two cents. No. I don't think any kind of word classification makes sense other than for the most obvious nouns, verbs, and adjectives. At least I don't see how it helps anyone speak or write English more effectively.
Jim
My two cents. No. I don't think any kind of word classification makes sense other than for the most obvious nouns, verbs, and adjectives. At least I don't see how it helps anyone speak or write English more effectively.
Jim
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CJ
I have an experience of disputing with other Japanese people for more than a week over such an issue like: "which part of speech is the UP in the sentence 'Next morning I was UP early'?".
paco
I have an experience of disputing with other Japanese people for more than a week over such an issue like: "which part of speech is the UP in the sentence 'Next morning I was UP early'?".
paco
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