Intermed Grammar 2: Inflection & Classification

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Marie Sophia Rackham was born in 1934 and raised in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She earned degrees in English and Geography from the University of British Columbia, and spent thirteen years studying piano with the Royal Conservatory of Music.

She worked as a public school teacher for thirty-four years, teaching at all levels from kindergarten to grade twelve; and taught piano and theory privately in her own studio for fourteen years.

Over her many years of teaching language arts, Marie developed her own curriculum for teaching basic grammar and punctuation, which was eventually published through the local Teacher's Resource Center and made available to all the schools in...

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09/14/2009

~ brittanie

This lesson is all about memorization. I feel like I've been bombarded with so much vocabulary that relates to inflection and classification of individual parts of a sentence.

The first part of the video lecture defines the term "inflection" as a change in the form of a word and reviews how it changes the relation and meaning in a sentence.

The second part of the video lesson reviews how to classify parts of a sentence. In terms of classification, Marie lists the different types of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and conjunctions. There are 6 ways to classify nouns: concrete, abstract, common, proper, collective, and compound. There are 6 ways to classify pronouns: personal, compound personal, demonstrative, interrogative, indefinite, and conjunctive. In terms of verbs, there are 8 types: transitive, intransitive, copula, action, possession, existence, principal, and auxiliary. There are 5 ways to classify adjectives: qualitative, quantitative, demonstrative, interrogative, and conjunctive. Adverbs can be broken down into 7 categories: time, place, manner, degree, cause, interrogative, and conjunctive. And finally, Conjunctions come in 4 different types: coordinate, subordinate, correlative, and phrasal.

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