Josh: Can I play your iphone Selisa?
(1)
Me: No, you have you mommy’s iphone to
play with.
Josh: Do you have games?(2) Can I play?
(3)
Me: No, I don’t have games.
Josh: Oh. (4)cause you’re a girl.(5)
Huh?(6) Well I can show you the boy games please. (7)
Me: No, that’s okay I don’t like to
play games.
Josh: I can show you da girls games
then.(8) Then we can play it. (9)
Me: No, how about you play on your
mommy’s iphone? I can use my phone.
Josh: I don’t wanna play her games no
more. (10) Her was mean to me.(11) I dont like bein trouble.(12)
Form Analysis
- Which utterances are transitive?
- Which are intransitive?
- Which are equative?
- Name a grammatical morpheme in the sample.
grammatical morpheme- "have" in utterance 2
ReplyDeleteWhat grammatical morpheme do you think this is, Rachel?
ReplyDeleteHere are examples of the types of sentences we're identifying in the sample. Use these to help you determine the answers to the questions with the sample.
ReplyDeleteTransitive: I rode a motorcycle down the country road.
Intransive: I drove up the hill.
Equative: I am the instructor for SED260.
The transitive sentence must have a direct object. This is the noun that answers the question, "who" or "what" in relation to the verb. So, in the example sentence above the verb is, "rode." Rode what? Motorcycle - so, this is the direct object.
Intransitive sentences have no direct object. They may tell you when, where or how. Those answers are typically adverbs or adverbial phrases. In the sample intransitive sentence above, "drove" is the verb. Drove what? It does not say. It tells drove where - up the hill. The phrase, "up the hill" is an adverbial phrase. Therefore this cannot be transitive.
In the equative sentence the subject, I is described or renamed by the word "instructor." When you have a sentence where the subject is linked to a description or a renaming of it, it is equative.
How do the above examples help you to identify the types of sentences which are located in the sample?