An Outline of English Morphology

Abstract

All the words of a language fall into notional (those denoting things, objects, notions – words having denotators in the objective reality) and functional (those having no denotators of their own and used only as one of the grammatical means to form up the utterance). Notional words constitute the bulk of the existing word stock. Nouns numerically make the largest class (33 %), verbs come second (25 %), they are followed by adjectives (17 %), adverbs make 12 %, the smallest group is pronouns, numerals, statives (13 %).Translation is a means of interlingual communication. The translator or the interpreter should not only have a good command of both the target language (translating language – TL) and the source language (SL) but also understand their system thoroughly. Grammar is considered to be one of the most important components of the language comprehension.