structural forms and grammatical categories of the verb

structural forms and grammatical categories of the verb lecture 9 structural forms and grammatical categories of the verb lecture 9 i. structural classes of verbs : verbs are characterized by specific forms of word-building. the verb stems may be: simple, derived, composite(compound), phrasal. a) simple or root verbs consist of a content morpheme that cannot be analyzed any further into smaller parts. such verbs are not numerous. for instance: ask, go, play, take, tell, declare, etc. b) derived verbs fall into four subclasses according to their word-building peculiarities: * derived verbs, which are formed by means of conversion (zero-suffixation). the most common type of conversion is “noun – verb” conversion ex:a cloud – to cloud, a house – to house, …

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