English Flashcards
(35 cards)
What is a noun?
A word that represents a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a common noun
Something you can see and touch eg River
What is a proper noun
Name of people, places, events
Collective nouns
- Groups of people or animals
- eg Flock of sheep
What is an abstract nouns?
- These nouns things you can’t touch feelings, ideas, concepts, or emotions
- Examples: love, courage, happiness.
What is a pronoun?
A pronoun is a word that is used in place of a noun.
To avoid repetition or to make sentences simpler
Give example of personal, possessive, demonstrative, interrogative pronouns
- Personal: He them
- Possessive: Mine Yours
- Demonstrative: This
- Interrogative: Who
What is an adjective?
- It is a descibing word - it descibes nouns
- eg blue scary
What is a verb?
Doing, being and behaving word
What is a compound noun?
- These nouns are formed by combining two or more words to create a single noun.
- Examples: skateboard, sunshine, basketball.
What is a Simile:
- A comparison between two unlike things using “like” or “as.”
- Example: “Her smile was as bright as the sun.”
What is a Metaphor?
- A direct comparison between two unlike things without using “like” or “as.”
- Example: “Time is a thief.”
What is Personification?
- Giving human characteristics to non-human entities.
- Example: “The trees whispered in the wind.”
What is Hyperbole?
- Exaggeration for emphasis or effect.
- Example: “I’ve told you a million times!”
What is Onomatopoeia:
- Words that imitate sounds.
- Example: “The bees buzzed around the hive.”
What is Alliteration:
- The repetition of initial consonant sounds.
- Example: “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”
What is Assonance:
- The repetition of vowel sounds within nearby words.
- Example: “The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain.”
What is Irony:
- A contrast between expectation and reality.
- Example: “The fire station burned down.”
What is an adverb
- A word that modifies or describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb / often end in -ly
- Adverbs often answer questions such as how, when, where, why, to what extent, or in what manner.
What is a finite verb
- A finite verb is a verb that changes its form based on who’s doing the action (like “I sing” vs. “he sings”)
- It’s a flexible verb that fits with the rest of the sentence.
What is required to make a COMPLETE sentence?
Contain a subject
Contain a finite verb
Present a complete thought
What is a non-finite verb?
- Non-finite verbs don’t change their form to match the subject or tense of the sentence.
- They are often used as complements, in phrases, or to indicate continuous action.
- Verbs that end in “-ing” (like “walking” or “singing”).
- Preceded by “to”.Verbs that come after the word “to” (like “to walk” or “to sing”).
What is a conjunction?
- They combine words, phrases and clauses.
- Coordinating conjunctions: “and,” “but,” “or,” “nor,” “for,” “so,” and “yet.”
- Subordinating Conjunctions: connect an independent clause with a dependent clause eg “After the rain stopped, we went outside to play.”
Active vs Passive Voice
In active - the subject is active and doing something,
In passive- the subject is having something done to it.
Active Voice
“The cat chased the mouse.”
In this sentence, “the cat” (the subject) is performing the action of “chasing” (the verb) on “the mouse” (the object).
Passive Voice:
“The mouse was chased by the cat.”
Here, “the mouse” (the subject) is receiving the action of “being chased” (the passive verb) by “the cat” (the agent).
