Advanced Grammar Knowledge Flashcards
Concrete noun
Can be touched or experienced with 5 senses
Abstract noun
Idea, emotion, quality or state
Collective noun
Name of a group of individuals
Determiners
Goes before a noun
‘The’, ‘A’
Articles
Shows whether the noun is general or specific
‘A’, ‘An’, ‘The’
Quantifiers
Before a noun to express quantity of the object
Comparative adjectives
Compare attributes of two nouns
‘More’, ‘Less’
Superlative Adjectives
Describe noun to highest or lowest degree
Adverbs of Quantity
Concerns self with how many
Auxiliary verb
Tense, mood or voice
HELPING VERB
Modal verb
Shows certainty of an event
Tense
The form of verb used to show when an event happened
Irregular verbs
Does not form it’s simple past tense by adding ‘Ed’ or ‘D’
Active voice.
Subject completes action of a sentence
Passive voice
Object of the sentence, comes before the action