Grammar Flashcards

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Imperative sentences.

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An instructive sentence. ‘Empty the dishwasher’.

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Interrogative sentences.

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A questioning sentence. ‘Did you kill Joffrey?’.

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Exclamative sentences.

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A sentence with an exclamation mark. ‘The child is blue!’.

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Declarative sentences.

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A statement. ‘I am hungry.’

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Complex sentence.

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A sentence containing a main clause, with one or more sub/dependent clauses. ‘He looked into the distance, wading into the water.’

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Compound sentence.

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A sentence with two or more main clauses.

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Simple sentence.

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A sentence with one clause. ‘I killed her slowly with a knife’.

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Minor sentence.

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A sentence with words missing (ellipsis).

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Ellipsis.

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Missing out words. (Minor sentences)

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Tense.

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Past, present or future. (Then, Now, Will.)

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Syntax.

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How the sentence is put together.

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Noun.

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A name, actions, qualities. (Person, place, object or thing) T.O.P.P

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Abstract noun.

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Words that senses can not detect - ‘Love’, ‘Honour’.

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Adverbs.

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Modifies that typically end in ‘ly’, - ‘Quickly’.

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Adjectives.

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Describing words. ‘Red’, ‘Ugly’.

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Verbs.

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Words describing a state, action. ‘Running’.

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Paranthetical expressions.

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Verbs such as ‘suppose’, ‘believe’, ‘think’ and ‘know’ which semantically express the strength of an utterance.

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Antecedent.

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Pronoun which refers back to the noun.

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Indefinite article.

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A non-specific determiner - ‘it’.

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Modal auxiliary verb.

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Could, should, would, ought, might, shall, will, can, must.

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Definite article.

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A specific determiner - ‘the’.

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Indefinite pronouns.

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Being uncertain about someone. ‘Someone came ‘round’.

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Morphology.

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Word formation.

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Morphemes.

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Individual units that make up a word.

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Copular verb.
Linking verbs - no action. 'Appear', 'is', 'what'.
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Demonstrative pronouns.
Modify nouns - most popular are 'this', 'that', 'those' and 'these'. Not followed by nouns.
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Demonstrative adjectives.
Modify nouns. These are followed by nouns.
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Prefix.
The morpheme that comes before the base morpheme. 'Non' in 'nonperishable'.
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Relative pronouns.
A relative pronouns introduces a relative clause. it is called a relative pronoun because it relates to the word that its relative clause modifies 'who', 'that', 'which', 'whose' and 'whom'.
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Syntactically disguised imperative.
Another phrase for an imperative.
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Negative interrogatives.
Using a negated form in a question to suggest that the recipient should already know the answer, e.g 'You didn't revise yesterday, did you?'
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Directive speech acts.
Any sentence type which produces an instruction (all imperatives are directives, but not all directives are imperatives), e.g - 'You should leave now'.
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Directive speech acts.
Any sentence type which produces an instruction (all imperatives are directives, but not all directives are imperatives), e.g - 'You should leave now'.
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Nominative.
Subject of a sentence.
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Accusative.
Object of a sentence.