study questions/the study of language

1.what is the difference between grammatical gender and natural gender?

2.what perspective rules for the proper use of english are not obeyed in the following sentences and how would they be corrected?

(a) The old theory consistently failed to fully explain all the data.

(b) I can’t remember the name of the person I gave the book to.

3. Identify all the parts of speech used in this sentence (e.g. woman=noun): The woman kept a large snake in a cage, but it escaped recently.

4. What was wrong with the older Latin-influenced definition of English pronouns?

5. Given these other Gaelic words, translate the following sentences in english.

mor(‘big”)  beag(“small”)  bhuail(“hit”)  duine(“man”)

(a) bhuail an gille beag an cu dubh

(b) chunnaic an cu an duine mor

6. create a labeled and bracketed analysis of this sentence: The thief stole a wallet.