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THEORETICAL GRAMMAR OCTOBER 10, 2023

THE TYPES OF GRAMMATICAL


CATEGORIES
GRAMMATICAL
CATEGORIES
GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY REFERS TO
A SET OF SPECIFIC SYNTACTIC
PROPERTIES OF WORDS THAT CAN
CAUSE THOSE WORDS AND/OR OTHER
RELATED WORDS TO CHANGE IN
FORM FOR GRAMMATICAL REASONS
(ENSURING AGREEMENT BETWEEN
WORDS)
THE VARIOUS KINDS OF GRAMMATICAL
CATEGORIES INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
NUMBER, DEFINITENESS, TENSE AND
ASPECT, CASE, PERSON, GENDER AND
MOOD.
01
NUMBER The category NUMBER merely
indicates the numerable property
(singularity or plurality). It is a
grammatical category of nouns,
pronouns, and adjective and verb
agreement that expresses count
distinctions (such as "one", "two",
or "three or more").
02
DEFINITENESS
The category DEFINITENESS distinguishes
definite and indefinite nouns. This
grammatical category is typically associated
to nouns through the use of determiners. A
determiner is a word that determines the
kind of reference a noun or noun phrase has,
for example a, an, the, every, some.
03
Tense and aspect
The category TENSE refers to the time at
which the actions or events took place.
The time of an expression serves as a
reference point to past, present or future.

The category ASPECT expresses the way in


which time is denoted by a verb. Aspect
markers on verbs tell us whether an action
is completed or is still continuing. This
grammatical category relates to tense. The
images above contain verbs that tell us
about the state of the action.
04
CASE AND PERSON

The category CASE expresses the


functional role of a noun or noun phrase.
This grammatical category conveys how
different noun phrases in a sentence relate
to the verb in different ways (subject,
direct object or indirect object).

The category PERSON used to classify


pronouns according to whether they
indicate the speaker (first person), the
addressee (second person), or a third party
(third person).
05
The category GENDER basically refers to a
sub-division of nouns into masculine, gender
and neuter.

The category MOOD relates to sentence


types (statements, questions and
commands). Mood is employed to refer to
different forms of finite verbs (indicative,
imperative, interrogative, conditional or
subjunctive).

GENDER AND MOOD


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THEORETICAL GRAMMAR OCTOBER 10, 2023

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