y used words constitute the greatest amount of difficulty, as may be summed up by the following example: I think that this "that" is a conjunction but that «that" man that used was a pronoun.correct understanding of this peculiarity of contemporary English should be instilled in the pupils from the very beginning, and they should be taught to find their way in sentences where several words have their homonyms in other parts of speech, as in Jespersen's example: Will change of air cure-love? To show the scope of the problem for the elementary stage a list of homonyms that should be classified as patterned is given below: Above - divp., adv., adj.; act - n., v.; after - divp., adv., conj. ; age - n., v.; back - n., adv., v.; ball - n., v.; bank . We may give the other examples: by, can, case, close, country, course, cross, direct, draw , drive, even, faint, flat, fly, for, game, general, hard, hide, hold, home, just, kind, last, leave, left, lie, light, like, little, lot, major, march, match , may, mean, might, mind, miss, part, plain, plane, plate, right, round, sharp, sound, spare, spell, spring, square, stage, stamp, try, type, volume, watch, well, will , etc.the most part all these words are cases of patterned lexico-grammatical homonymy taken from the minimum vocabulary of the elementary stage: the above homonyms mostly differ within each group grammatically but possess some lexical invariant. That is to say, act v follows the standard four-part system of forms with a base form act, an s-form (act-s), a Past Tense form (acted) and an-ing-form (acting) and takes up all syntactic functions of verbs, whereas act n can have two forms, act (singular.) and acts (plural). Semantically both contain the most generalized component rendering the notion of doing something.investigations have shown that it is quite possible to establish and to formalize the differences in environment, syntactical or lexical, serving to signal which of the several inherent values ​​is to be ascribed to the variable in a given context.example of distributional analysis will help to make this point clear. The distribution of a lexico-semantic variant of a word may be redivsented as a list of structural patterns in which it occurs and the data on its combining power. Some of the most typical structural patterns for a verb are: N + V-f-N, N + V-f-Prep.; V- N, NfVf-Adj., N + V + Adv., N + V + to-f-V and some others. Patterns for nouns are far less studied, but for the dissent case one very typical example will suffice. This is the struct...
