1.1 Flashcards
(26 cards)
Types of sentences
Declarative - statement
Imperative- instruction
Interrogative- questions
Exclamative- exclamations
Sentence structure
Simple- one main clause
Compound- fanboys
Complex- not fanboys
Compound complex- fanboys and not fanboys
Fragment- incomplete sentence (no verb or no subject)
Determiners
Appears before noun phrases (the, a)
Inflectional morpheme
Provides GRAMMATICAL INFORMATION such as indicating tense or plurality
Derivational morpheme
Changes the word class of a lexeme (joy+ful=joyful)
Types of nouns
CCCCPAM
Common Concrete Count Proper Collective Abstract Mass
Common noun
General, unspecified category of nouns (orange, clog, tree)
Count noun
Can be modified by numerals and can occur with quantifiable adjectives
- 3 cats, many cats
Concrete noun
Can be perceived by at least one human sense
- fish
- concrete
Proper noun
Refer to specific entities (e.g people, places, and are capitalised)
- Houston
- YouTube
Pronoun
In order of subject, object, possessive, reflexive
First person singular: - I, me, my/mine, myself First person plural: - we, ya, our/ours, ourselves Second person singular/plural - you, you, your/yours, yourself/yourselves Third person singular (masculine): - he, him, his, himself Third person singular feminine: - she, her, her/hers, herself Third person singular non-personal: - it, it; its, itself Third person plural: - they, them, their/S, themselves
Abstract noun
Theoretical concepts, ideas, philosophy
- freedom, love, power
Mass noun
Do not take plural form, are not countable, and can not modify them with numerals
- wood
- flour
Collective noun
Refers to groups in a specific manner
- flock
- herd
Adjectives
Refers to qualities, states relating to factors, or judgements of a noun. Describing a noun
Types of verbs
Nonfinate verbs - infinitives - particle - gerund Auxiliary verbs - primary - modal
Nonfinite verbs
VERBS THAT DONT HAVE TENSE
Infinitive
- in its simplest dictionary form, not the main verb, and can be preceded by the particle ‘to’
Particle verb
- perfect aspect: completed verb (you have studied)
Progressive aspect: ongoing and incomplete (yOu arestudying)
Active aspect: subject completed the action (Walshy studied)
Passive aspect: subject has action done to it
Gerund verb
- acts like a noun, referring to action as a concept, usually ending in ing
Auxiliary verbs
The helping verb, used in conjunction with main verbs, to express shades of time and mood
Primary
- be, have, and do
Modal
- can, could, shall, should, will, would, may, might, must
Adverb
Tells us more about the meaning of a verb
Coordinating conjunction
FANBOYS
for And Nkt But Or Yet So
Noun-phrase
Contains a noun and anything describing thst noun
Verb phrase
Contains a verb and any modifier to the verb
Prepositional phrase
Begins with a prepositions, normally followed by a noun phrase
Adjective phrase
Set of words describing a noun