A very common way to form new words in English is to add affixes to existing forms. For example, “teacher” is formed by adding the affix -er to the existing form “teach”, and “enlarge” is created by adding the affix to the existing form “large”. These affixes are called affixes.

Explain with at least 2 examples what a finite clause is and tell which of the following 4 sentences are NOT finite clauses.

A. The weather being fine.

B. The book to be finished.

C. When we got there.

D. John asked Mary to leave early.

Describe the similarities and differences between a pidgin and a lingua franca.

behaviorist learning theory

idiolect

cerebral plasticity

collocation

cognate

Maxim of quantity

syntax

assimilation rules