1.1 Flashcards

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Types of sentences

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Declarative - statement
Imperative- instruction
Interrogative- questions
Exclamative- exclamations

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Sentence structure

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Simple- one main clause
Compound- fanboys
Complex- not fanboys
Compound complex- fanboys and not fanboys
Fragment- incomplete sentence (no verb or no subject)

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Determiners

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Appears before noun phrases (the, a)

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Inflectional morpheme

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Provides GRAMMATICAL INFORMATION such as indicating tense or plurality

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Derivational morpheme

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Changes the word class of a lexeme (joy+ful=joyful)

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Types of nouns

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CCCCPAM

Common
Concrete
Count
Proper
Collective
Abstract
Mass
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Common noun

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General, unspecified category of nouns (orange, clog, tree)

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Count noun

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Can be modified by numerals and can occur with quantifiable adjectives
- 3 cats, many cats

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Concrete noun

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Can be perceived by at least one human sense

  • fish
  • concrete
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Proper noun

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Refer to specific entities (e.g people, places, and are capitalised)

  • Houston
  • YouTube
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Pronoun

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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
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Abstract noun

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Theoretical concepts, ideas, philosophy

- freedom, love, power

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Mass noun

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Do not take plural form, are not countable, and can not modify them with numerals

  • wood
  • flour
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Collective noun

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Refers to groups in a specific manner

  • flock
  • herd
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Adjectives

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Refers to qualities, states relating to factors, or judgements of a noun. Describing a noun

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Types of verbs

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Nonfinate verbs
- infinitives
- particle
- gerund
Auxiliary verbs
- primary
- modal
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Nonfinite verbs

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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

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Auxiliary verbs

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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

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Adverb

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Tells us more about the meaning of a verb

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Coordinating conjunction

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FANBOYS

for
And 
Nkt
But
Or
Yet
So
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Noun-phrase

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Contains a noun and anything describing thst noun

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Verb phrase

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Contains a verb and any modifier to the verb

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Prepositional phrase

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Begins with a prepositions, normally followed by a noun phrase

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Adjective phrase

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Set of words describing a noun

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Adverb phrase

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Set of words describing any adjective, verb, clause, or sentence

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Clauses

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A main clause can stand in its own
“The girl screamed”
A subordinate clause does not stand in its own, and adds information
“[the girl screamed] because she saw a ghost”