Language Levels - Grammar

Question 1

What is a noun phrase and example?

Answer 1

Adjective + noun, e.g. the shiny dress.

Question 2

What is a verb phrase and example?

Answer 2

Auxiliary/modal + verb, e.g. she could dance.

Question 3

What is a phrasal verb and example?

Answer 3

Verb + preposition, e.g. wake up.

Question 4

What is an adjective phrase and example?

Answer 4

adjective + (optional) adverb + (optional) other modifies, e.g. extremely talented young artist.

Question 5

What is an adverb phrase and example?

Answer 5

Adverb + (optional) other modifiers, e.g. very slowly.

Question 6

What is a prepositional phrase and example?

Answer 6

Preposition + noun phrase, e.g. on the table.

Question 7

What is a main clause and example?

Answer 7

The core of the sentence – can exist on its own, e.g. ‘the dog wags his tail’.

Question 8

What is a subordinate clause and example?

Answer 8

Exists as an addition to the main clause – it cannot exist without it (introduced or ended with a comma), e.g. ‘BARKING AND PANTING, the dog walk his tail’.

Question 9

What is a relative clause and example?

Answer 9

A clause which adds more information and is introduced by a relative pronoun, e.g. ‘the dog, whose name is Milo, wagged his tail’.

Question 10

What is a parenthetical clause?

Answer 10

A clause which exists in brackets.

Question 11

What is a minor/fragment sentence and example?

Answer 11

An incomplete sentence (missing one of more of SVO), e.g. ‘sugar and milk?’.

Question 12

What is a simple sentence and example?

Answer 12

A main clause on its own, e.g. ‘the dog wagged his tail’.

Question 13

What is a compound sentence and example?

Answer 13

Two or more simple sentences joined by conjunction, e.g. ‘the dog wagged his tail and ran around the garden’.

Question 14

What is a complex sentence and example?

Answer 14

A sentence which contains at least one subordinate clause, e.g. ‘barking, and panting, the dog wagged his tail and run around the garden’.

Question 15

What is interrogative and example?

Answer 15

Used to ask a question, e.g. ‘What is your dog called?’

Question 16

What is a declaritive and example?

Answer 16

Used to make a statement, e.g. ‘My dog is called Milo.’

Question 17

What is an imperative and examples?

Answer 17

Used to make a command, e.g. ‘Stop barking!’

Question 18

What is a exclamative and example?

Answer 18

Used to make an exclamation, e.g. ‘What a cute dog!’

Question 19

What is a disguised imperative and example?

Answer 19

E.g. ‘It’s cold in here’, may be a declarative, but it may be that the speaker wants the reader to close the window, which would make it a disguised imperative.

Question 20

What is a conditional clause and example?

Answer 20

Expresses a condition and its potential consequence. It typically consists of two parts: the condition (if-clause) and the result (main clause), e.g. “If it rains, we will stay indoors.”

Question 21

What is a fronted adverbial and example?

Answer 21

An adverb or adverbial placed at the start of the sentence, e.g. Yesterday, …

Question 22

What is a defining relative clause?

Answer 22

Provides essential information to understand the sentence.

Question 23

What is a non-defining relative clause?

Answer 23

Provides extra, non essential information.

Question 24

What is an independent clause and example?

Answer 24

Can stand alone as complete sentences because they express a complete thought. For example, “She went to the store.”

Question 25

What is a dependent clause and example?

Answer 25

Cannot stand alone as complete sentences because they do not express a complete thought. They need an independent clause to form a complete sentence. For instance, “Because she was hungry.”