NovaChat User’s Guide
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Appendix A: Advanced Grammar Features
The features explained in this appendix are intended for persons with
extensive knowledge of grammar. The functionality described here was
intended to support pre-morphing. The current Grammar Actions are
still intended as a good solution for post-morphing. For languages such
as German, pre-morphing is much more important.
These features are also more beneficial with certain vocabularies. For
example, WordPower vocabularies already provide buttons for adding
endings to words (for example, an -est button for adjectives).
Setting up grammar actions involves identifying words as a part of
speech and setting up a button to apply a grammar rule applicable to
that part of speech. In this appendix, we’re going to identify two
buttons, “video game” and “computer game”, as nouns and then create
a button that will pluralize nouns.
Identifying Parts of Speech
1.
Navigate to a page of “things” (nouns).
2.
Choose
Menu
>
Edit Mode
.
3.
Press and hold a “thing” button (for example, video game), choose
Edit Button
, and choose the
Actions
tab.
4.
Tap the “Add an action” list box arrow to open the list of actions.
5.
Select
Apply Grammar Property
. The Part of Speech window will
open.
6.
Tap the “Part of Speech” list box arrow. A menu will list adjective,
noun, and verb options.
