Difference between revisions of "Be"
From Creolista!
(→Major Uses) |
(→Major Uses) |
||
| Line 15: | Line 15: | ||
=Major Uses= | =Major Uses= | ||
| + | |||
| + | Most fundamentally be is a coupler. It connects two ideas. Let's start with this basic understanding and look at what it couples: | ||
| + | |||
*copula: syntax | *copula: syntax | ||
| Line 24: | Line 27: | ||
<li>A worktool, is it?</li><br> | <li>A worktool, is it?</li><br> | ||
| − | <li>The door is open. (Adj)</li | + | <li>The door is open. (Adj)</li> |
| − | <li>They're sick.</li> | + | <li>They're sick.</li><br> |
<li>The machine is breaking. (You can hear it.) (Present Participle) | <li>The machine is breaking. (You can hear it.) (Present Participle) | ||
| Line 37: | Line 40: | ||
<li>Were they <u>to lose the lawsuit</u>, they would probably go bankrupt. (Infintival expressing a condition)<br> | <li>Were they <u>to lose the lawsuit</u>, they would probably go bankrupt. (Infintival expressing a condition)<br> | ||
<li>They were to lose in the end. (infinitival expressing a historical fact known to the storyteller) | <li>They were to lose in the end. (infinitival expressing a historical fact known to the storyteller) | ||
| + | |||
| + | |||
| + | *introduces partiples and participials. | ||
| + | |||
| + | **passive voice marker (be +en) | ||
| + | |||
| + | Lincoln and Kennedy were both assassinated. | ||
| + | It was golden. (ADJ, (predicate adjective)) | ||
| + | Everything was frozen. | ||
| + | |||
</ol> | </ol> | ||
Revision as of 22:04, 30 January 2013
Avertissement: cette page est destiné à un analyse grammatical du mot "be" :P
Forms
- dictionary form (bare infinitive): be
- present tense: are (1p, 2s/p, 3p), is (3s), am (1s)
- past tense: was (1s, 3s), were (1p, 2s/p, 3p)
- present participle: being
- past participle: been
- copula: syntax
- It's a worktool. (NP)
- A worktool, is it?
- The door is open. (Adj)
- They're sick.
- The machine is breaking. (You can hear it.) (Present Participle)
- The machine is broken. (Past participle)
- Is Raymond in? (Particle)
- Mark isn't. (negation) (VP ellipsis)
- These ideas aren't mine. (sujet parlant est bizarrement attribut du sujet grammatical)
- Were they to lose the lawsuit, they would probably go bankrupt. (Infintival expressing a condition)
- They were to lose in the end. (infinitival expressing a historical fact known to the storyteller)
- introduces partiples and participials.
- passive voice marker (be +en)
Major Uses
Most fundamentally be is a coupler. It connects two ideas. Let's start with this basic understanding and look at what it couples:
En semantique on parlerait plutôt de l'attribution on parlerait de sa fonction, qui est souvent de lié un sujet à un attribut, un ensemble (ou l'invers)...
