Nedenstående tekstuddrag er fra novellen “The Sentry”af Téa Obreht.
Tag stilling til, om de understregede ord er adjektiver (tillægsord) eller adverbier (biord) og forklar, hvilket ord de lægger sig til.
In July, he jumped the fence and made off with the widow's champion pug; two weeks later, an old gun dog that lived at the rest-home two blocks over was seriously injured. People complained, but always indirectly, with reluctance, usually at church and in ways that made their concerns seem more like observations than actual grievances. They knew Bojan's father; they seemed to know better.
Around Bojan's father, the mastiff was keen but subdued, like a retired cannon in a museum. Bojan could picture the two of them on sentry duty: his father, tall and heavy-set, the dog growling like a rusted grate at his side while they performed manoeuvres, or, in some of Bojan's more daring fantasies, searched for mines.
Tillægsord: Ordklasse der lægger sig til navneord, som et beskrivende ord.
Biord: Biord beskriver handlinger men ikke ting som tillægsordene. Biord kan lægge sig til et udsagnsord, et tillægsord, et andet biord eller en hel sætning.
Besvarelse 1a:
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