This 28th collection of students’ pearls of wisdom, laboriously digitised from hand-written papers, demonstrates once again how students new to the study of language speculate about grammar after having imperfectly absorbed what their teachers think they have taught them.

Test Question—Compounds

Answers

• Olive green is the name of a person. Green is a surname, noun.

• We experience different paraphrases. Both cases are exceptable.

• ‘green olive’ is the determiner describing the specialisation of the noun, olive.

• green is a noun.
  
  ‘green’ is a collocation showing syntagmatic relations here.

• green can be taken as adjective or noun depending on the intonation.

• olive is a verb, and green is the adjective.

• ‘green olive’ modifies the olive.

• green is adjective and olive is noun, which is a link/copular verb. They enter a ditransitive pattern.

• ‘green’ could be modifying the NP, or it could be not modifying anything.

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