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Takehisa Tanaka Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Could you help me understand these sentences?
Could you help me understand these sentences?
This is an excerpt from my grammar book:
"Indeed, in spite of their associative connection with word classes, these semantic distinctions are not to be treated as criteria diagnostic of membership of those classes. Thus we can take a normally dynamic item(say the verb in He wrote the book) and 'nominalize' it(the writing of the book) pretending -- as it were -- to see the action as a static 'thing'. So also the verb tax beside the nouns tax and taxation. Again, the name participle reflects the fact that such a form 'participates' in the features both of the verb(The car was approaching us) and of the adjective(the approaching car). In later chapters these form -- meaning relations will be explored further, but emphasis will be understandably placed on significant contrasts of meaning within word class, rather than between them."
I can not understand these two sentences:
"So also the verb tax beside the nouns tax and taxation." and "Again, the name participle reflects the fact that such a form 'participates' in the features both of the verb and of the adjective."
Could you tell me, please?
This is an excerpt from my grammar book:
"Indeed, in spite of their associative connection with word classes, these semantic distinctions are not to be treated as criteria diagnostic of membership of those classes. Thus we can take a normally dynamic item(say the verb in He wrote the book) and 'nominalize' it(the writing of the book) pretending -- as it were -- to see the action as a static 'thing'. So also the verb tax beside the nouns tax and taxation. Again, the name participle reflects the fact that such a form 'participates' in the features both of the verb(The car was approaching us) and of the adjective(the approaching car). In later chapters these form -- meaning relations will be explored further, but emphasis will be understandably placed on significant contrasts of meaning within word class, rather than between them."
I can not understand these two sentences:
"So also the verb tax beside the nouns tax and taxation." and "Again, the name participle reflects the fact that such a form 'participates' in the features both of the verb and of the adjective."
Could you tell me, please?
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Takehisa Tanaka So also the verb tax beside the nouns tax and taxation. You are expected to see that this sentence fragment takes its structure from the preceding sentence and, where necessary, to invent your own examples. ________________ Thus we can take a normally dynamic item(say the verb in He wrote the book) and 'nominalize' it (the writing of the book) pretending -- as it were -- to see the action as a static 'thing'.
- Takehisa Tanaka So also the verb tax beside the nouns tax and taxation.
- You are expected to see that this sentence fragment takes its structure from the preceding sentence and, where necessary, to invent your own examples.
- ________________ Thus we can take a normally dynamic item(say the verb in He wrote the book) and 'nominalize' it (the writing of the book) pretending -- as it were -- to see the action as a static 'thing'.
- So also the verb tax beside the nouns tax and taxation.
- ~ Thus we can also take another normally dynamic item (say the verb in The government will tax the citizens) and 'nominalize' it (the tax paid by the citizens; the taxation of the citizens) pretending -- as it were -- to see the action as a static 'thing'.
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Takehisa TanakaSo also the verb tax beside the nouns tax and taxation.You are expected to see that this sentence fragment takes its structure from the preceding sentence and, where necessary, to invent your own examples.
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Thus we can take a normally dynamic item(say the verb in He wrote the book) and 'nominalize' it (the wr
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Thanks, CJ.
I got the point you mentioned.
Could you tell me one more?
I'm wondering how "beside" in "So also the verb t
I got the point you mentioned.
Could you tell me one more?
I'm wondering how "beside" in "So also the verb t
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Takehisa Tanakabesidenext to
When you put "tax" next to (beside) the noun "taxation", for example, it is like putting "write" next to (beside) the noun "writing".
Verb ............ Noun
write ............ writing
tax ............... taxation
CJ
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