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Verb mood: What’s an imperative mood?

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A command. ie: Hurry up, listen to me

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Verb mood: What’s an indicative mood?

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Indicates a fact. ie: He will never be satisfied, Patrick plays the guitar.

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Verb mood:What’s interrogative mood?

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Where there is a question. ie: Have you read this?

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Verb mood:What’s a conditional mood?

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Expresses a preposition, made up of modal verb ‘would’ + the.= inf verb with ‘to’.

ie: I would like sushi for dinner, I would live in London if I could afford it.

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Verb moods:What’s a subjunctive mood?

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Describes a hypothetical situation.
ie: if I were you, I would be careful-> hypothetical because I am not you!

It’s important that you agree to these terms-> hypothetical because you haven’t agreed to these terms yet.

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What are the 4 different categories of adverbs?

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Place
Manner
Time
Frequency

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Adverb: what’s place?

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Indicates a location ie: inside, outside, near

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Adverbs: what’s manner?

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Describe things way happen: happily,sadly

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Adverbs: what’s time?

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Indicates a time: soon,tomorrow.

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Adverbs: what’s frequency?

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How often something happens: always,never,sometimes.

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What do adverbs modify?

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Verbs, adjectives and other adverbs

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What are examples of personal pronouns?

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Mine,yours,ours,his hers

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What are verbal verbs?

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Concerned with communications. ie: Harry shouted at his mum.

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What’s stative verbs?

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Describes actions/states that are constant.
ie: think,believe,love

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What are stative verbs broken down by?

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Mental or relational verbs

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What’s a mental verb?

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Mental stative verbs, describe intrinsic process.
ie: Sara loved her brother dearly

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What’s relational verbs?

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Shows relation between things/state of being
ie: Isaac OWNS three cars
The box CONTAINS many socks

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What’s a transitive verb?

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Has direct object. I want a BIKE 🚲

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What’s intransitive verb?

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Has no direct object. ie: Jenny SLEEPS, Danny ARRIVED

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What’s active voice?

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Subject performing action, verb uses active voice
Ie:Ryan played the character well, Christian loved his wife

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What’s passive voice?

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Subject being acted on, passive to action. Verb uses P voice.
Ie: The character was played well by Ryan, Christians wife was loved by Christian.

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What’s a synonym?

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Words that have the same meaning, different words.
ie: Beautiful,attractive,pretty

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What’s an antonym?

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Words that mean the opposite.
Beautiful= horrible,ugly,disgusting

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What’s a homophone?

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Words with the same sound. ie: Their,there and they’re

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What’s a homograph?
Words with the same spelling. ie: I read that book, I like to read
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What’s a homonym?
Words with the same sound and spelling. ie: I can throw that can in the bin. 2 meanings sentence. She is so bright and it’s such a bright day.
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What does morphology look at?
Morphemes
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What’s a morpheme?
Smallest unit of meaning, makes up all words
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What’s bound morpheme?
Added to start of free morpheme ie: unattractive
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What’s suffix bound morpheme?
Added to end of free morpheme. ie: Attractively
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What are (clauses) noun phrases?
Words around a noun. ie: The old rush CAR on the drive.
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What’s pre modification? (Clauses)
Head word modified before place in sentence.
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What’s post modification (clause)?
Head words modified after place in sentence. Ie: The sweet little bird with bright wings
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What’s a verb phrase?
Words around a verb ie: Dan DROVE his car down the road, Martha CRIED loudly down the phone.
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What’s a proper noun?
Specific objects, people ,things always need capital letter.ie: London
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What’s a common noun?
General, don’t need capital letters unless start of sentence. ie: cat, dog,table
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What’s a concrete noun?
Something that can be touched. ie: I put my pen on the table.
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What’s an abstract noun?
Feelings like love or pain. ie: anger, passion.
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What are collective nouns?
Nouns used to describe groups, for people.
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What are base adjectives?
Plain adjective without anything added to the end. ie: big,pretty.
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What are comparative adjectives?
‘Er’ added to the end. ie: Older
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What’s a superlative?
‘Est’ added onto the end. Biggest.
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What’s a main verb?
Describes the main action of the clause: eats, sleeps, runs Sam runs to school.
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What’s the auxiliary verb?
Verb, helps main verb of the sentence: do, be Can, might ,will= modal aux verb. ie: I AM bored-> auxiliary She MAY WALK the dog-> aux and main.
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What’s a copular verb?
Links the subject to noun/adj that complements subject. Most common Copular = ‘is’ ie: The food TASTES amazing-> food= subject, tastes=copular, amazing=adj
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What’s a dynamic verb?
Actions that can start and end: shout and hit Can be material or verbal
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What’s a material dynamic verb?
Concerned with events. Anna DROVE to work. Eddy MELTED the butter in the pan.
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What’s simple present?
I walk, you walk, she walks etc. Ie: Jenny loves Paul, we swim at the beach
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What’s present progressive?
Action that’s happening now and will continue to happen/unfinished action. ie: They are running for the bus, Patrick is doing his homework.
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What’s present perfect progressive?
Action happened, unfinished. ie: they have been running for three hours, they’ve been wanting concert tickets for ages!
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What’s present perfect?
Action that’s already happened. ie: Alice has forced me to come to her party, you have caused a problem.
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What is simple past?
We PARTIED until 6am, he DECIDED to quit smoking
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What’s past progressive?
She WAS EATING at the restaurant, they WERE FILMING for three hours.
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What’s past perfect?
Action already happened before something else happened. ie: She HAD DECIDED to quit her job. you HAVE WORKED too many shifts.
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What’s past perfect progressive?
Describing action that was continuous,now done. ie: I HAD BEEN TRYING to lose weight, the children HAD BEEN SKATING many times before.
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What are relative pronouns?
Link the noun to the clause. Include: who,what,where. ie: Cigarettes WHICH are bad for your help are v expensive.
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What are demonstrative pronouns?
Direct attention to something. ie: This is the car Clara owns.
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Determiners: what is the definite article?
Used when there’s something specific. ie:we are going for a drive in THE 🚗, open THE 🚪 please,
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What’s indefinite article?
Used for something more general (like ‘a’) ie: Can you pick up A carrot from the shops?
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What’s a quantifier?
Determiners that are specific, display a quantity. ie: I have LOTS OF friends,Henry the 8th had SIX wives.
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What are the 2 main types of determiners?
Articles and quantifies.
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How do coordinating conjunctions work?
Join 2 of the same clause together. Ie: I love her FOR she is pretty. For And Nor But OR Yet So
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What’s a subordinating conjunction?
Join main clause and subordinate clause. ie: until,because,therefore,even though. Ie: I liked Patrick before he broke my heart.
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What’s simple future?
Action going to happen in future. Ie: I’m going on holiday next week.
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What’s future perfect progressive?
Action that’s continuous, will be completed in future. ie: He WILL HAVE BEEN watching the news closely, Calvin WILL BE debating for the team.
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What’s future perfect?
Action will be completed in the future. ie: Leo WILL HAVE worked non stop for 3 days, she WILL HAVE FINISHED her research by tomorrow.

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