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Terminology - sentences, phrases, clauses, and word levels Flashcards

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What is a noun?

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A person, place, thing, or idea

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What is a common noun?

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Names a general person, place or thing:
city, man, vacuum

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What is an abstract noun?

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Names an idea, a feeling, a quality, or a characteristic: friendship, sadness, democracy

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What is a proper noun?

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Names a specific person, place or thing:
John, Wales, Nestle

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What is a concrete noun?

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Names things you can see and touch: pizza, kitten, diamond

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What is a collective noun?

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Names a collection of things as a whole: school of fish, murder of crows

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What is an adjective?

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A word that describes a noun

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What is a comparative adjective?

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An adjective that makes a comparison, They usually end in -er: hotter, smaller, bigger

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What is a superlative adjective?

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An adjective indicating the highest degree, usually ending in -est: hottest, best, smallest

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What is an attributive adjective?

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They precede the noun they are modifying:
The expensive shoes.

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What is a predicative adjective?

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They follow the noun they are modifying:
The shoes look expensive.

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What is a verb?

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They are often known as ‘doing words’. They refer to physical actions (dynamic verbs), or to ‘mental actions’, states and conditions (stative verbs)

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What is a dynamic verb?

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Describes something with a clear beginning and end, which happens during a limited time.
e.g jump / take / give / explode / throw

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What is a stative verb?

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Describes states that continue over a period of time.
e.g think / anticipate / seems / agree / include

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What is a main / lexical verb?

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A verb that carries meaning.

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What is an auxiliary verb?

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A verb that supports the lexical verb. The auxiliary comes before the lexical verb.

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What is an example of a primary auxiliary verb?

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be / have / do

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What is an example of a modal auxiliary verb?

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can / may / could / might / would / will / should

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What is an example of a semi-auxiliary verb?

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have to / had better / be willing to

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What is finite verb?

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A verb that is marked for tense. Main clauses contain these.

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What is a non-finite verb?

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A verb which is not marked for tense: -ing (present) participle and -ed (past) participle

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What is the active voice?

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The subject is doing the action.
e.g “Steve (subject) loves Amy (object)”

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What is the passive voice?

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The target of the action gets promoted to the subject position.
e.g “Amy (subject) is loved by Steve”

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What is a transitive verb?

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Verbs that need an object to complete the meaning.

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What is an intransitive verb?
Verbs which do not need an object to complete the meaning.
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What is a cataphoric reference?
A word or expression that refers forward to another part of the text, not yet disclosed.
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What is an anaphoric reference?
A word or expression that refers back to another part of the text.
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What are pronouns?
Words that take the place of nouns
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What is a possessive pronoun?
Shows possession e.g This is *hers*
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What is an indefinite pronoun?
Do not refer to specific persons or things e.g someone
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What is a relative pronoun?
Placed after the noun they refer to e.g the city *that* has many attractions
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What is a demonstrative pronoun?
Have a sense of pointing at something or someone e.g this / that / those
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What is an interrogative pronoun?
Used when asking a question e.g who / whose / which / what
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What is a reflexive pronoun?
Indicate the object is the same as the subject e.g He congratulated *himself*
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What is a personal pronoun?
Replace subject and/or subject of a sentence e.g I / he / she / they / him / she / them
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What is an interjection?
A part of speech that demonstrates the emotion or feeling of the author. These words or phrases can stand alone, or be placed before or after a sentence.
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What is deixis?
Use of demonstrative pronouns and determiners e.g this / that / those / these / them (reliant on context - make no sense without further information)
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What is a determiner?
Precede nouns and refer directly to them.
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What is an example of a possesive determiner?
my / our / your / his /her / their
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What is an example of a demonstrative determiner?
this / that / those / these
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Is “the” a definite or an indefinite article?
definite
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Is “a/an” a definite or indefinite article?
indefinite
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What is an adverb?
Describes a verb, an adjective or another verb. It tell us how, how often, when and where.
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What is an example of an adverb of manner?
easily loudly quickly reluctantly sadly silently
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What is an example of an adverb of time?
after already early now soon yesterday
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What is an example of an adverb of degree?
really most extremely definitely fairly mostly absolutely
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What is an example of an adverb of frequency?
always every day never often twice sometimes
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What is an example of an adverb of place?
away everywhere here Southward about towards
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What is a preposition?
Indicates the way that one thing is related to another (shows the relationship between the noun that comes after it and something else in the sentence)
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What is a conjunction?
Joining words (also known as connectives) - they join different parts of a sentence together
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What is a subordinating conjunction?
Used to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause e.g because / although / unless / until
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What is a coordinating conjunction?
Used when parts of a sentence are equal e.g and / or / but (fanboys)
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What is a simple sentence?
Contains only one main clause
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What is a compound sentence?
Consists of two main clauses joined together by a coordinating conjunction (fanboys)
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What is a complex sentence?
Consists of a main clause and one or more subordinate clauses (aka dependent clauses)
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What is a minor sentence?
Lack a subject or a main verb. e.g no parking
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What is a compound-complex sentence?
Has at least two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause
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What is an interrogative?
They ask a question (want information, and they always end with a question mark) usually: (wh-word +) auxiliary + subject + verb …
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What is a declarative?
They make a statement (tell us something and give us information - normally end with a full-stop) usually: subject + verb …
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What is an imperative?
They give a command (tell us to do something, and end with a full-stop or exclamation mark - usually start with a verb)
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What is an exclamative?
They express strong emotion/surprise (always end with an exclamation mark) usually: what (+adjective) + noun + subject + verb OR how (+ adjective/adverb) + subject + verb
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What is a noun phrase?
A group of two or more words that is headed by a noun (a person, place, or thing) that includes modifiers (e.g., 'the,' 'a,' 'of them,' 'with her')
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What is a verb phrase?
A combination of an auxiliary verb (helping verb) and a main lexical verb
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What is the lexical field?
Refers to vocabulary related by topic. e.g rain, wind, fog, clouds, umbrella, storm (grouped in the lexical field of weather)
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What is a semantic field?
Refers to meaning rather than topic and typically involves synonyms and antonyms e.g big, large, tiny, small (semantic field of size)
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What are inflectional affixes?
Added to the end of existing word for grammatical reasons e.g -ed / -ing
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What are derivational affixes?
Added to morphemes to form new words that may or may not be the same part of speech e.g Girl —> Girly
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What is colloquial language?
The linguistic style used for casual communication (the form of language that speakers typically use when they are relaxed and not especially self-conscious)

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