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<DIV><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mike Maxwell said:</FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial
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<DIV><BR>(4) Nouns, and to a lesser extent adjectives, tend to have
straightforward grammars and meanings. You don't need an example sentence
to know how to use 'dog' or 'rock'. (Abstract nouns like the infamous
'destruction' are of course exceptions to this.)<BR><BR>Hm, maybe, but Collins
COBUILD has the illustrative sentence 'Their dog started barking at me.' to
illustrate that dogs are typically owned by someone and that 'dog' collocates
with 'bark'. I should imagine that dogs don't 'bark' in all languages. The same
dictionary also has a range of illustrative sentences to show how to use 'rock'
as a mass noun and 'rock' as a count noun in English. And a common adjective
like 'new' has a range of meanings depending on what it is modifying,<BR><BR>new
(adj.) (1) a new house (‘not existing
before’)<BR>
(2) a new member
(‘additional’)<BR>
(3) new potatoes (‘recently
grown’)<BR>
(4) new clothes (‘recently
acquired’)<BR>
(5) new ways of approaching a problem (‘not
known before’)<BR>
(6) …<BR><BR>John Roberts</FONT></DIV>
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