Grammar Flashcards

(40 cards)

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Dog bit postman - person or thing performing the action is emphasised

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Active voice

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Ideas, feelings, qualities

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Abstract nouns

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Word or group of words usually giving information about time or a place - on Friday

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Adverbial

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Placed in front of main verbs - he is running

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Auxiliary verb

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Part of a sentence usually separated by punctuation or connective

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Clause

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FANBOYS

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Coordinating conjunction

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Groups of people, animals or things

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Collective nouns

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Types of people, places and brands

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Common nouns

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Comparison usually ending in -er (colder, faster, happier)

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Comparative adjective

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A main clause and a subordinate clause. A subordinating conjunction connects the clauses together

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Complex sentence

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Two independent clauses linked by a coordinating conjunction

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Compound sentence

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Things you can feel and see

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Concrete noun

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Shortened pronunciation of words - couldn’t, shouldn’t

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Contraction

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The, an/a

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Definite and indefinite article

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Pointing words - cannot be understood unless context of utterance is known

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Deictic expression

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This, that, those, these

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Demonstrative determiner/pronoun

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Used before a noun to indicate quantity, identity or significance

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Miss out parts of a sentence to avoid repetition

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Command/directive

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Part of verb before it is changed - to run, to write, to be, to decide

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Grammatical word ending in -er or -s

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Inflection/inflectional affix

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Can, will, could, would, should

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Smallest unit of language that expresses meaning or serves a grammatical function - unfair (2), hunters (3), truthfulness (4)

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Study of the structure of words

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Has noun or pronoun as head word - the beach, the sandy beach
Noun phrases
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Word formed from verb as a past participle (burnt, frightened) and present participle (burning, frightening)
Participles
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Postman was bitten - emphasis on object of verb rather than subject
Passive voice
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Replaces the subject or object of a sentence
Personal pronoun
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My, your, our, his, hers, it's, their
Possessive determiner
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Show possession - mine, yours, hers, his, ours, it's
Possessive pronoun
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Group of letters commonly found at the beginning of words - re-, un-
Prefix
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Takes place of noun - it, him etc
Pronoun
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Indicates how one thing is related to something else
Preposition
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Refers to people or places
Proper noun
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Subject, verb, object or subject and verb
Simple sentence
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Clause does not make sense on its own and is less important than the main clause
Subordinate clause
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So, because, that
Subordinate clause
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Groups of letters commonly found at ends of words (-able, -ly)
Suffix
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Indicating highest degree - coldest, fastest
Superlative adjective
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Aspect of grammar concerned with construction of sentences and word order
Syntax