Grammar - Determiners And Nouns Flashcards

1
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Logic asks?

A

When is a sentence true

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2
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Rhetoric asks?

A

Which is the right sentence?

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3
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Grammar purely asks?

A

When is a sentence correct

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4
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….. …. carry the meaning of a sentence. The classes for these words are open, meaning new words are readily added. E.g new noun ……., meaning ‘one who eats locally grown food’

A

Content words

Locavore

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5
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Types of words where the classes are generally closed and very limited in number, rarely admitting new numbers?

A

Structure words - structure a sentence

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6
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Provide the demonstrative determiners:

A

This, that, these and those

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7
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Provide the possessive determiners:

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My, your, his, her, its, our , their

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8
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Whose, whichever and whatever are types of:

Give example in sentence:

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Relative determiners

You can do whatever you want

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9
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Case:
Whose, which and what are types of:

E.g What time did you arrive

A

Interrogative determiners

E.g they didn’t know whose car it was

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10
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Yusuf’s in the context of determiners are called:

A

S-Genitive

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11
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Case:

The horse ran is:

A

Nominative - Horse is the agent of the action

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Case:

The horse’s stable:

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The genitive - horse is possessor of another term

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Case:

He gave something to the horse

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Dative - horse is the receiver of something or indirect object of an action

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Case:

She rode the horse

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Accusative - horse is the direct object of an action

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15
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Case:

He fell from the horse:

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Ablative - horse is the origin of the action

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16
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Case:

She rode the horse with a saddle

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Instrumental - saddle is a tool of an action

17
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Case:

He rode the horse on the track

A

Locative - on the track is the location of something

18
Q

Case:
Oh horse

Case:
“I don’t know, John,”

“I don’t know John”

A

Vocative - horse is directly addressed

John is a vocative expression that indicates the party being addressed, as opposed to the sentence

“John” is the direct object of the verb “know” (accusative)

19
Q

In English, declension (type of ….. for nouns, pronouns and adjectives), is limited to:
Singular v ……
Nominative v ……
And some nouns that take ….. forms. E.g prince and ……

A
Inflection 
Plural 
Genitive 
Gender 
Princess
20
Q

Determiners are articles that …. Nouns

A

Modify

21
Q

An owl is what type of noun (s)?

A

Animate, common

22
Q

Milk is what type of noun (S)

A

Inanimate

Noncount (mass)

23
Q

What type of nouns are words such as freedom, anger, happiness, glory?

A

Abstract

24
Q

What type of noun is William Shakespeare or Asia?

A

Proper noun

25
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Common nouns refer to general …..

Most have a …. and a …. form e.g. crab/crabs rose/roses, liberty/ liberties

A

entities

singular and plural

26
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Count nouns denote things that can be ….; one person, two glasses, many problems, several books.

A

counted

27
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Collective nouns define groups composed of individual members referred to ….; team, class, electorate, parliament, flock

A

collectively

28
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Noncount (or mass) nouns refer to …. entities or constructs and are usually only expressed in ….. forms e.g. thunder, cotton, milk, luggage, hair

A

Inanimate

constructs