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Grammar Flashcards

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Indefinite articles

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‘a’ and ‘an’

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Definite articles

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‘the’

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the infinitive

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the most basic form of the verb
the particle ‘to’ followed by the basic verb

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4
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copula verb

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linking verbs eg ‘is’ in ‘Jane is hungry’

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5
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double negatives

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2 or more negative particles in a sentence

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genitive pronoun

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show possession

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imperative sentence

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instructive sentences

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Indefinite pronouns

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pronouns that do not specify and are vague e.g ‘somebody’, ‘something’, ‘anyone’

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9
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reflexive pronoun

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pronouns that end in ‘self’ or ‘selves’

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10
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minor sentence

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an incomplete sentence

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11
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what is a minor sentence also known as?

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elliptical sentence

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exclamatives

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a sentence that denotes exclamation

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declarative

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a statement in the form of a declaration

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14
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interrogative

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a construction with the force of a question

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simple sentence

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only has once clause with a single subject and predicate

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compound sentence

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a sentence with by 2 independent clauses usually connected with a conjunction

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complex sentence

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a sentence made up of a main clause and a subordinating clause

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mitigated imperitive

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a syntactically disguised imperitive

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19
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overt prestige

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formal language

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covert prestige

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informal language

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interrogative pronouns

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pronouns that form questions e’g what, how, when, where

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demonstratives

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words like ‘this’, ‘that’, ‘those’

23
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antecedent noun

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the noun the pronoun refers to

24
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parentheticals

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verb phrases like ‘i think’, ‘i know’, ‘i guess’

25
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what do parentheticals do?

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adjust the strength of a sentence

26
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what is syntactic parallelism

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a type of repetition where multiple words are repeated in successive sentences or clauses e.g we want to win. we want to succeed, we want to achieve

27
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second person address

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the pronouns ‘your’, ‘you’, ‘yourself’
creates direct address

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first person plural pronoun

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‘we’ ‘ours’ ‘us’
adds to inclusive language

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inclusive language

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language that involves the audience
e.g ‘all of us….’

30
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abstract nouns

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nouns which we can’t identity with our senses
they often add emotive content in persuasive texts
e.g loyalty, freedom, justice
often ‘has’ comes before

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absolute adjectives

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the most basic form of an adjective
e.g fit, clever, beautiful

32
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comparative adjectives

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used to compare differences between two objects they modify
e.g ‘fitter’ ‘cleverer’ ‘more beautiful’

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superlative adjectives

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used to describe an object that is the upper or lower limit
e.g ‘fittest’ ‘cleverest’ ‘most beautiful’ ‘worst’

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modal verbs

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verbs which assist the main verb of a sentence

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conjugation

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how we form verbs

36
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primary auxiliary verbs

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be, do, have

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be conjugations

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be, am, is, was, were, been, being

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do conjugations

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do, does, did

39
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have conjugations

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have, has, had, having

40
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what are be, do and have conjugations

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primary auxiliary verbs

41
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dynamic auxiliary verbs

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concerning the different degrees of ability or tendency
e.g i could swim when i was five
it can rain a lot

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deontic auxiliary verbs

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concerning different degrees of obligation and permission
e.g you must not do that
you can leave now

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epistemic auxiliary verbs

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the different levels of probability/possibility
e.g it may snow today
he must be about to drive

44
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boulomaic auxiliary verbs

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the different degrees of volition (free will), desire and wish
e.g she would rather stay at home
he will not accept the truth

45
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polysyndeton

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listing with lots of conjunctions

46
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asyndeton/ asyndetic listing

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listing without conjunctions

47
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compound noun

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a noun made of two or more existing words
e.g playgroup scrapyard

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