Word list for Grammar Engineering, Spring 2005

Please add to this vocabulary as you add words to your grammars, and check back for words from other grammars to add: it will enhance our MT experience at the end of the term.

Nouns

• book
• bread
• cat
• child
• date palm
• dog
• fact
• flour
• garden
• glass
• hair (count noun)
• house
• king
• lightning
• man
• master
• mother
• peace
• problem
• rain
• sign
• smoke
• staple_food (poi)
• student
• tomato
• tree
• turnip
• water
• winter

Verbs

Intransitive

• appear (become apparent)
• die
• flow
• grow
• lie down
• rain
• rave
• run
• sleep
• travel
• walk

Transitive

• ask-to-know
• assume
• cook
• decide
• demand
• doubt
• eat
• enter
• fear
• find
• have
• hope
• hurt
• know
• like
• read
• request
• ridicule
• shear
• shoot
• wound

Ditransitive

• cook for
• give

Other

• can
• find (find X Y = find that X is Y)
• go
• make (make X Y = cause X to become Y)

Adjectives

• black
• clear
• clever
• crazy
• decrepit
• easy
• every
• glass
• good
• happy
• my
• our
• strong
• such
• sweet
• that
• their
• winter
• yellow
• young

Adverbs

• almost
• always
• definitely
• easily
• home
• neg
• often
• only
• precisely
• quickly
• suddenly
• today
• too (excessively)
• very

-- EmilyBender - 12 Apr 2005