Friday, April 24, 2009

Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb of Crime

Today I learnt how to learn vocabulary items by grouping them into four categories: Adjective, Noun, Verb and Adverb.

For example, the word CRIME can be grouped into: adjective as criminal;nouns for things as crime; nouns for people as criminal; verbs as no-such-form or "to commit a crime"; and the adverbs as criminally.

The words can further be grouped into sentences. The examples are as below.
  • As for the adjective, the sentence can be "The judge announced Jill's case as a criminal one".
  • As for the noun for things, the sentence can be "This is a crime to steal." ; nouns for people, "Jill was convicted as a criminal for drug trafficking".
  • As for the verb, there is no word-form of crime. But we will use the expression, to commit a crime.
  • As for the adverb, the sentence can be, "He planned to steal the money criminally. "
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