Section B: Language Flashcards
(30 cards)
What are nouns?
A noun names a person, a place or a thing
What 4 nouns do we get?
Proper noun,common noun,collective noun and abstract noun
What is a proper noun?
*A proper noun names a specific person ,place or thing
*Proper nouns begin with a capital letter
*e.g.: Pretoria,James
What is a common noun?
*A common noun names a every day object and a person place or thing
*e.g.:table,apple
What is a collective noun?
*a Collective Noun names a collection or group of objects
*e.g.:a school of fish ,a forest of trees
What is a Abstract Noun?
An Abstract noun names ideas or qualities(you cannot put abstract nouns into a box
*e.g.:joy,peace,wish
What are pronouns?
Pronouns replace the noun it the sentence
Why ?
It replaces the noun so that you don’t have to keep repeating the noun
What are verb tenses
Present,past, future
How do you use present tense
I am dancing
How do you use past tense?
I was dancing
How do you use future tense?
I will be dancing
What is a verb?
A verb is a doing word
E.g.:run,jump,play,sit
(Can I ___)
What is a conjunction?
A conjunction joins sentences or phrases together
What are 3 types of conjunctions?
Coordinating, Subordinating,correlative
What is a coordinating conjunction?
It is used to connect words,phrases, clauses and sentences together.
*(For,and,not,but,or,yet,so)
•FANBOYS
What is a Subordinating conjunction?
A Subordinating conjunction is a word or phrase that links a dependent clause to an independent clause
•( if,since,as,when, although,while,after,before,until, because)
*I SAW A WABUB
What is a correlative conjunction?
A pair of words that join two clauses or groups of words to balance the sentence
What is a prefix?
A prefix is a part added to the beginning of a word that changes the words meaning
What is a suffix?
A suffix is a word part that is added to the beginning of a word that changes the words meaning
What is a root word
The core part of the word is called its roots .also called the stem
It is also a word that can stand on its own
What are synonyms?
Synonyms are words that are similar to eachother
What are antonyms?
Antonyms are words that are the complete opposite