grammar language level

Question 1

morphology

Answer 1

the study of the forms of words, in particular inflected forms.

Question 2

morpheme free

Answer 2

A free morpheme can stand alone as a word, like ‘house’ or ‘dog

Question 3

morpheme bound

Answer 3

A bound morpheme is a morpheme (or word element), usually a prefix or suffix, that cannot stand alone as a word

Question 4

prefix

Answer 4

morpheme at the beginning of a word (free morpheme)

Question 5

suffix

Answer 5

morpheme at the end of a word (free morpheme)

Question 6

lib fixes

Answer 6

a productive bound morpheme affix

Question 7

syllable

Answer 7

a unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound

Question 8

conjugation of verbs

Answer 8

Verb conjugation refers to how a verb changes to show a different person, tense, number or mood.

Question 9

past tense

Answer 9

something that already happened

Question 10

present tense

Answer 10

something that is happening in the moment

Question 11

continuous tense

Answer 11

The present continuous tense describes actions that are happening now or frequently or are planned for the near future. uses “be” and “ing” ect.

Question 12

conditional tense

Answer 12

Conditional tenses are used to speculate about what could happen, what might have happened, and what we wish would happen

Question 13

elision

Answer 13

the omission of a sound or syllable when speaking

Question 14

common noun

Answer 14

a noun that is tangible

Question 15

proper noun

Answer 15

place, name, needs to be have a capital letter

Question 16

abstract noun

Answer 16

something we cannot touch: emotion or idea

Question 17

active verb

Answer 17

a physical action

Question 18

stative verb

Answer 18

an action inside the mind: emotional

Question 19

regular verb

Answer 19

a verb following the normal pattern of inflection.
the general rule is that regular verbs form the past tense by adding -ed

Question 20

irregular verb

Answer 20

a verb that does not follow the normal pattern of inflection.

Question 21

auxiliary verb

Answer 21

a verb used in forming the tenses, moods, and voices of other verbs. The primary auxiliary verbs in English are be, do, and have

Question 22

auxiliary modal

Answer 22

modal verbs a verb used in forming the tenses, moods, and voices of other verbs. : modal auxiliaries are can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will, and would.

Question 23

verb agreement

Answer 23

Subject-verb agreement is the grammatical rule that the verb or verbs in a sentence must match the number, person, and gender of the subject.

Question 24

adjectives

Answer 24

describes a noun

Question 25

adverbs

Answer 25

describes anything but a noun

Question 26

prepositions

Answer 26

describes the relationship between objects by describing its position

Question 27

conjunctions subordinating & coordinating

Answer 27

Coordinating conjunctions join two or more equal elements, while subordinating conjunctions connect a dependent clause to an independent clause.

Question 29

pronouns (demonstrative; personal; possessive; singular or plural; reflexive; nominative or oblique)

Answer 29

a word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g. I, you) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g. she, it, this). See also personal pronoun, impersonal pronoun.

Question 30

articles, indefinite and definite

Answer 30

definite refers to something specific: the indefinite is more broad: an / a

Question 31

sentence types : simple, compound, complex, minor

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simple- consists of just one independent clause, it is a simple sentence compound- A compound sentence is a sentence that combines two or more independent clauses. complex-The structure of a complex sentence involves the connection of at least one dependent clause to an independent clause minor-A minor sentence is an incomplete sentence that still makes sense

Question 32

sentence moods/functions, (declarative; interrogative; imperative; exclamatory; subjunctive)

Answer 32

declaratives- statements interrogative- questions imperative-commands exclamatory-emotional subjunctive-wishes

Question 33

negations

Answer 33

denial of the truth of a clause or sentence, typically involving the use of a negative word (e.g. not, no, never) or a word or affix with negative force (e.g. nothing, non-).

Question 34

phrases: noun, prepositional, verb

Answer 34

a small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit, typically forming a component of a clause.

Question 35

clauses

Answer 35

a unit of grammatical organisation next below the sentence in rank and in traditional grammar said to consist of a subject and predicate.

Question 36

periphrastic grammar

Answer 36

use extra words to express a grammatical meaning, like 'will' for future tense

Question 37

clitic (proclitic, enclitic morphemes)

Answer 37

clitic-morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase

Question 38

active voice

Answer 38

it is doing something/ subject first

Question 39

passive voice

Answer 39

something is happening to it