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Give an example of a common noun

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Cars, toys, house, dogs, tables.

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What is a proper noun?

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A noun which refers to specific people and places.

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What are the 2 sub-variations of common nouns?

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Concrete

Abstract

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Explain what a concrete noun is, and give an example.

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A common noun refers to physical things, for example people, objects, animals, etc.

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Explain what an abstract noun is and give an example.

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Abstract nouns refer to ideas, processes, occasions, times and qualities, they cannot be touched. For example, happiness, fear, sadness, etc.

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What are countable nouns? Give an example.

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Nouns that can be counted, so have a plural form, they many follow the determiner ‘many’, for example donkeys, cows, etc.

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What are non-countable nouns? Give an example.

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These refer to substances and qualities that cannot be counted, they cannot follow the determiner ‘a’, ‘many’, ‘several’, etc, except ‘much’. E.g. ‘Food’, ‘water’.

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What is the role of adjectives?

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To provide extra information about nouns by giving detail of physical qualities, psychological qualities and evaluative judgement.

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Give an example of a type of adjective.

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Visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory.

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What is a comparative? Give an example

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Used to make comparisons, made by adding ‘-er’ to the adjectives, e.g. Bigger, taller, etc.

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What is a superlative? Give an example.

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Used to make comparisons, made by adding ‘-est’ to an adjective. E.g. Tallest, biggest, etc.

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Give an example of a noun being used as an adjective.

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The garden wall.
The school field
The lava pit

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Give an example of a verb being used as an adjective.

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The running boy
The sleeping cat
The talking girl

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What is a pronoun?

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A word which refers to a noun previously use, or replaced a noun.

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Give an example of a possessive pronoun.

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Mine, our, yours, his, hers, it’s, theirs.

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Give an example of a reflexive pronoun

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Myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.

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Demonstrative pronouns have deictic function, what does this mean?

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They refer to something in immediate context.

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Give an example of a demonstrative pronoun.

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This, these, that, those.

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Give an example of an interrogative pronoun.

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Who, which, whom, whose, what.

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Give an example of an ‘of’ indefinite pronoun.

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All of, both of, either of, neither of, each of, some of.

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Give an example of a ‘compound’ indefinite pronoun.

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Every, some, any, -one, -body, no+thing

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What is a verb?

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A word of doing or being.

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What is a dynamic verb? Give an example.

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A verb which relates to action, e.g to run, to hit, to speak.

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What is a stative verb? Give an example.

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A verb which expresses states of being or thought processes rather than actions, e.g. To be, to seem, to know, to mean.

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What is a transitive verb? Give an example.
A verb followed by a direct object, e.g the dog bit the postman.
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What is an intransitive verb? Give an example.
Verbs that cannot take a direct object, e.g the dog barked.
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What is an auxiliary verb?
Verbs which are placed in front of main verbs.
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Locate the auxiliary in this sentence: | "I must have been thinking about someone else."
must have been
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What are the two types of auxiliary verb?
Primary | Modal
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What are the three primary auxiliary verbs?
Be Have Do
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What can primary auxiliary verbs be used to do?
Indicate time Construct questions Add emphasis Express negatives
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True/false | Primary auxiliary verbs can acts as main verbs.
True | They are also the only ones which can.
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How do modal auxiliary verbs affect the sentence?
They can alter the tone or meaning of something that is said or written.
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Give an example of 3 modal auxiliary verbs.
Can, could, may, might, must, will, would, shall, should.
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What is an adverb?
A word that limits or modifies the meaning of any part of speech except a noun or a pronoun.
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What can adverbs modify?
``` Verbs Adjectives Other adverbs Prepositions Whole sentences ```
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What is a circumstance adverb? Give an example.
An adverb that modifies verbs, giving details of circumstance. E.g. Time and frequency - now, then, soon, recently, etc. Place - here, fairly, almost, quite, etc. Manner - slowly, quickly, eagerly, etc.
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What is a preposition?
A word that shows the relationship between a noun and another noun or pronoun in a sentence, including those in relation to positions. E.g. In, on, at, through.
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What is a common noun?
A noun that classifies things into general types or categories.
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What do determiners do?
They proceed nouns and refer directly to them.
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What do prepositions come before?
Nouns Adjectives Pronouns Noun phrases
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What does a coordinating conjunction do?
Used to join sentences that are of equal value.
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What is an auxiliary verb?
A verb such as 'be','have','do' which can act as the main verb or as a linking verb.
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Hyponyms
Words that can be included in a larger, more general category
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Hypernyms
Words that label categories
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Semantic change
The process of words changing meaning
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Morpheme
Smallest grammatical unit
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Free morpheme
A morpheme that can stand on its own as a word
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Affix
A morpheme that cannot stand on its own as a word, but combines with others to create a new word.
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Phrase
Group of words centred around a head word
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Clause
Group of words centred around a verb, may be grammatically complete or incomplete (main clause/subordinate clause)
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Deixis
Words that are context-bound where meaning depends on who is being referred to, where or when something is happening.
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Face
The concept of how all communication relies on presenting 'face' to listeners and audiences and how the management of positive and negative face needs to contribute to interaction
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Politeness
The awareness of others needs to be approved of and like or given freedom to express their identity and choices
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Adjuncts
Non-essential elements of clauses that can be omitted
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Disjunction
Sentence adverbs that work to express an attitude or stance towards material that follows
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Anaphoric reference
Making reference back to something previously identified in a text (e.g. The woman .. stood by )
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Cataphoric reference
Making reference forwards to something as yet unidentified in text
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Interdiscursivity
The use of discourses from one field as part of another (e.g. The use of science discourses in the selling of beauty products)
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Multimodal texts
Texts that rely on multiple modes to display message (e.g. Image, writing and sound)
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Mode
The way in which language is communicated between text producer and receiver.
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Poetic voice
The way in which a sense of identity is projected through language choices so as to give the impression of a distinct persona with a personal history and a set of beliefs and values
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Personal pronoun
Specific person or peoples | He, she, they
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Possessive pronouns
Possession of object or thing | His, hers, theirs, mine
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Reflexive pronoun
How the subject affects you | Himself, yourself, themselves
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Relative pronouns
Relation to noun and modification A girl WHO sings A dog WHICH barks at strangers
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Interrogative pronouns
Who are you | What are you doing
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Demonstrative pronouns
Points to a noun This That

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