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Hanuman_2000 Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

Meaning of sentence- qualification

Sir,


What is meaning of word "qualify " used in grammar such as


1. When an adjective qualify the noun.

2. When the noun is qualified by an adjective.

3. Infinitve qualify the verb.

does is mean describe or add something?

Please do explain .


thanks.
  

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Basically, it means 'limited' in some way, Hanuman. If I say that in the sentence, 'I bought a green snake yesterday', 'green' qualifies or limits 'snake' by excluding all brown or yellow ones. I am unclear, however, as to how an infinitive could qualify a verb, other than that it would represent only one form of the verb-- thus, 'to matriculate' would qualify 'matriculate' by excluding 'have been matriculating', etc.

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  • Basically, it means 'limited' in some way, Hanuman.
  • If I say that in the sentence, 'I bought a green snake yesterday', 'green' qualifies or limits 'snake' by excluding all brown or yellow ones.
  • I am unclear, however, as to how an infinitive could qualify a verb, other than that it would represent only one form of the verb-- thus, 'to matriculate' would qualify 'matriculate' by excluding 'have been matriculating', etc.
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Basically, it means 'limited' in some way, Hanuman. If I say that in the sentence, 'I bought a green snake yesterday', 'green' qualifies or limits 'snake' by excluding all brown or yellow ones.

I am unclear, however, as to how an infinitive could qualify a verb, other than that it would represent only one form of the verb-- thus, 'to matriculate' would qualify 'matriculate' by excluding
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I think that when they speak of an infinitive qualifying a verb in a grammar textbook, they mean expressions like “continued to write” or “begins to jump” etc., where the use of the infinitive really does restrict the meaning of the main verb (“continued” or “begins”) by making the description of the action more specific.
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