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Concrete Noun

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Anything that physically exists
E.g. table, oxygen, chair, etc.

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Abstract Noun

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Anything that exists in the mind (mental constructs)
E.g. happiness, sadness, beauty, etc.

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Collective Noun

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Used to refer to groups or people or things
E.g. an (army) of ants

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Proper Noun

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Names, Names of places, Months / Day

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Dynamic Verb

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Physical actions we can see
E.g. running, sitting, etc.

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Stative Verb

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Action which are a state of mind and cannot be seen
E.g. think, determine, etc.

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Lexical Verb

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A verb in which no action occurs; can identify tense
(Similar to an aux. verb being used alone)
E.g. my head was sore

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Auxiliary Verb

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A verb which aids a main verb; can identify tense
Modal verbs fall into this category
E.g. Kady is walking (is)

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Modal Verb

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Predicts / Determines future events

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Main Verb

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Main Action

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Attributive Adjective

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Gives a noun a plain description
E.g. “a red car” (red)

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Comparative Adjective

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Used to compare one thing to another.
more / less / er
E.g. slower

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Superlative Adjective

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Used to push nouns to their most extreme form
most / least / est
E.g. cutest, least cool, etc.

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Possessive Pronoun

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Shows possession
E.g. His / Hers / Theirs

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Reflexive Pronoun

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Links back to subject / object
- Add self/selves
E.g. they drove themselves insane

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Main Clause

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Works independently in a sentence

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Subordinate Clause

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Cannot work alone in a sentence

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Simple Sentence

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Has no conjunction
- Just a simple clause

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Compound Setence

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Consists of only main clauses

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Complex Sentence

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Has either / both of the clauses

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Subject

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What or who does the action

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Object

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What or who is affected by the verb

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Complement

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Additional info in a sentence

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Imperative Sentences

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Commands / Demands others to do something

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Interrogative Sentences

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Questions

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Exclamative Sentences

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Expressions

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Declarative Sentences

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Conveys information

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Free Morpheme

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Morpheme that can stand alone (typically is a word)
- Can miss / replace singular letters

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Bound Morpheme

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Cannot work alone
- Must be connected to a free morpheme

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Affix & Types of

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A grammatical element that is combined with a word stem to to produce derived or inflected forms
- Prefix / Infix / Suffix / Circumfix

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Suffix

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An affix placed at the end of a word stem
- e.g. slow(ly) / cat(s) / ask(ed)

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Prefix

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An affix placed at the beginning of a word stem
- Typically changes the meaning of a word (happy -> unhappy)

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Inflectional Morphology

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When morphology is used to show plurals / tense
- e.g. present to past tense: skip -> skipped
- e.g. singular to plural: lion -> lions

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Derivational Morphology

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When morphology is used to alter word class
- e.g. adjective to noun: slow -> slowness

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Circumfix

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An affix consisting of two parts; one placed at the end of a word stem and one at the beginning (prefix and suffix together)
- e.g. enlighten (en)

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Adfix

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An affix attached to the outer stem of a word to form a new word

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Productive Affixes

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Word formation process:
New words are coined by the use of affixes
- e.g. ness; can be applied to the majority of words to change meaning

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Infix

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A word is placed between 2 morphemes for rhetorical effect
- e.g. abso-bloody-lutely

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Present Simple Tense

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An action in the present that happens often or is factual
- Often formed by suffix ‘s’ / ‘es’
E.g. He speaks

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Present Continuous Tense

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An action in the present only taking place for a limited time / arranged for the future
- Am / is / are
E.g. He is speaking

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Present Perfect Tense

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A past action that is related to or continue into the present
- Have / has
E.g. He has been speaking

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Adverb of Manner

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How something is done
E.g. furiously / quickly / etc.

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Adverb of Degree

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Extent to which something is done
E.g. Hardly / almost / etc.

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Adverb of Time / Temporal Adverb

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When something is done
E.g. Today / Tomorrow / etc.

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Adverb of Frequency

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How often something happens
E.g. Sometimes / Always / etc.

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