Immersing in the depths of the grammatical universe, we feel surprised at the complexity it holds for us, no doubt, but also delighted given the great surprises it presents us, especially when it comes to the enormous flexibility of the facts that guide the language as a whole.
Such flexibility, portrayed here specifically, concerns the fact that concepts, characteristics,become widely subject to change due to a single aspect: the context in which a certain communicative circumstance occurs. Here the emphasis will be given to the changes that took place in the grammatical field, but they can also manifest themselves in the syntactic field, whose recurrence becomes an indisputable fact.
In this sense, let us focus on discussing such changes attributed to the same word, given that it can take on classes different grammatical terms, as well as with some examples of which we already know, portrayed by the words “what”, “if” and "like". Thus, given the impossibility of representing them in their entirety, let us stick to only a few, represented in this way.
Let's observe some situations in which speeches like the ones presented here illustrate well what we propose to discuss:
# THE Beatrice is Thegirl you like. In some time, if this feeling becomes more and more intense, I will ask you: You The love?
In the statement we come across different positions occupied by the word "a", being that in the first and in the second occurrence, as it accompanies a proper noun as well as a common noun, we assert to be a article. In the last case, we found that the position now differs from the others already mentioned, given that because it acts as a complement to the verb, in syntactical terms, it is classified as the personal pronoun of the oblique case.
Do not stop now... There's more after the advertising ;)
# It's quite possible that you had a day quitetense, but the considerations aimed at you were enoughto feel a little more relieved. So, the next day, for sure, he will have the courage to face enoughchallenges.
Now, we are faced with many classifications attributed to the word quite, since in the first case the classification refers to to an adverb, invariant; therefore, in the second, to an adjective, and on the third,to an indefinite pronoun.
# Soon who have the opportunity to study, don't waste time. Soon, acting in this way, will be fighting for a better future.
No doubt he killed the riddle right away, because, in the case of the first case, we claim to be facing an adverb of timeand, continuing with the considerations, we are faced with a conclusive coordinating conjunction.
# Second what they told me, no second working day she spent less than one second to resolve an impasse that until then had persisted in the company.
We are sure that a few seconds will be enough for you to give the word “second” the correct classifications, once marked, respectively, by a subordinate conjunction conformative, by a ordinal numeral, and finally, by a substantive.
By Vânia Duarte
Graduated in Letters
