Identification of the Category of Adjective in English A Corpus-Based Approach
Identification of the Category of Adjective in English A Corpus-Based Approach

Summary/Abstract: It is common knowledge that in English there are problems that arise concerning identification of word classes. Attention is more specifically drawn to examining the class of adjectives and what problems they pose for the researcher and foreign language learner. The Analyzed examples are extracted from the BNC and also from a self-made electronic corpus.The article consists of Introduction and three sections. The introduction describes the state of affairs in very general terms. Section 1, 2 and 3 deal with the different formal classifications of adjectives and how they relate to other word classes, adverbs in particular.

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