TERMINOLOGY Flashcards
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Statige verb
Denotes a state of being
Love,prefer,disagree, to know, to believe, to remember
Dynamic verb
Denotes an action which is continued or progressive
Travelled, jump, work, eat
Epistemic modal verbs
Like you don’t have to do it
May, could
Acronym
Abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word
You can actually say it if ygm
Ikea, , NASA
Initialism
You have to pronounce the letters
BBC,
Idioms
An expression which can have a literal or figurative meaning that is distinctive to a particular language
Under the weather
Break a leg
Bobs your uncle
Noun phrase
Group of words that have no verb
Where the noun is the head of the phrase
(Noun phrase)
Pre modifier
Comes before the noun
(Noun phrase)
Post modifier
Comes after the noun
(Noun phrase)
Determiners
Definite determiner == the
In-definite determiner== An/a
Word that are present participle ?
End in - ing
Transitive verb
Followed by an object , person or thing
I CARRIED the baby
We can MAKE a cake
Intransitive verb
Doesn’t have to be followed by an object , person or thing
The children LAUGHED
Deontic modal verbs
Like more command
Must, should
Auxiliary verbs
Helping verbs
I HAVE gone
the girl HAS swum
Independent clause
Group of words that contain a verb and make sense on their own
The dog barked
Subordinate clause(dependent)
Group do words that add info to the main clause but do not make sense on their own
When the postman opened the gate
Adverbial clauses(dependent)
Acts like an adverb and modify verbs, adjectives and adverbs, gives info about time, place, condition, reason, manner
He lost his double chin AFTER HE GAVE UP THE CHOCOLATE
