ameasure partitives, e.g. a yardof cloth, an acreof land, two pintsof
milk
btypical partitives (i.e. where a particular partitive collocates with a
particular noun), e.g. a sliceof cake, a stickof chalk, a lump of coal
c general partitives (i.e. those which are not restricted to specific nouns),
e.g. a pieceof paper/cake, a bitof cheese/cloth.
see also collocationpart learningn
see global learning
part skillsn
another term for micro-skills
parts of speechn
a traditional term to describe the different types of word which are used to
form sentences, such as noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition,
conjunction, interjection. From time to time other parts of speech have been
proposed, such as determiner.
Parts of speech may be identified by:
atheir meaning (e.g. a verb is the name of a state or event: go)
btheir form (e.g. a verb has an -ing-form, a past tense, and a past participle:
going,went,gone)
c their function (e.g. a verb may form or be part of the predicateof a
sentence: They went away).
These criteria will identify the most typical representatives of each part of
speech. However, many problems still remain. For example, in the sentence:
Their goingaway surprised me.
is goinga verb or a noun?
see also gerund, participle, particle
passive language knowledgen
see active/passive language knowledge
passive vocabularyn
see active/passive language knowledge
passive voicen
see voice^1
past continuousn
see progressive
past continuous