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parts of speech
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| morphological test for NOUNS | see if a word can be made plural by changing its form with the morpheme {s} - exceptions for woman/ women, goose/ geese, die/ dice, etc. |
| syntactical test for NOUNS | see if a word comfortably fits in the position after noun markers such as "the", "a", "many", "that", and "these" |
| morphological test for ADJECTIVES | see if a word can be given the endings "-er" and "-est" (for short adjectives) and "more" and "most" (for long adjectives) |
| syntactical test for ADJECTIVES | 1. does the word go well between a noun marker and its noun? 2. does the word go well after the word "seem(s)"? |
| morphological test for VERBS | does the word change its tense/ form |
| test for ADVERBS | 1. see if they modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs 2. see if they answer the questions "how?", "when?", and "where?" |