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Verb mood: What’s an imperative mood?

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A command. ie: Hurry up, listen to me

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Verb mood: What’s an indicative mood?

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Indicates a fact. ie: He will never be satisfied, Patrick plays the guitar.

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Verb mood:What’s interrogative mood?

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Where there is a question. ie: Have you read this?

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Verb mood:What’s a conditional mood?

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Expresses a preposition, made up of modal verb ‘would’ + the.= inf verb with ‘to’.

ie: I would like sushi for dinner, I would live in London if I could afford it.

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Verb moods:What’s a subjunctive mood?

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Describes a hypothetical situation.
ie: if I were you, I would be careful-> hypothetical because I am not you!

It’s important that you agree to these terms-> hypothetical because you haven’t agreed to these terms yet.

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What are the 4 different categories of adverbs?

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Place
Manner
Time
Frequency

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Adverb: what’s place?

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Indicates a location ie: inside, outside, near

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Adverbs: what’s manner?

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Describe things way happen: happily,sadly

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Adverbs: what’s time?

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Indicates a time: soon,tomorrow.

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Adverbs: what’s frequency?

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How often something happens: always,never,sometimes.

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What do adverbs modify?

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Verbs, adjectives and other adverbs

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What are examples of personal pronouns?

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Mine,yours,ours,his hers

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What are verbal verbs?

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Concerned with communications. ie: Harry shouted at his mum.

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What’s stative verbs?

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Describes actions/states that are constant.
ie: think,believe,love

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What are stative verbs broken down by?

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Mental or relational verbs

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What’s a mental verb?

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Mental stative verbs, describe intrinsic process.
ie: Sara loved her brother dearly

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What’s relational verbs?

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Shows relation between things/state of being
ie: Isaac OWNS three cars
The box CONTAINS many socks

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What’s a transitive verb?

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Has direct object. I want a BIKE 🚲

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What’s intransitive verb?

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Has no direct object. ie: Jenny SLEEPS, Danny ARRIVED

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What’s active voice?

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Subject performing action, verb uses active voice
Ie:Ryan played the character well, Christian loved his wife

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What’s passive voice?

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Subject being acted on, passive to action. Verb uses P voice.
Ie: The character was played well by Ryan, Christians wife was loved by Christian.

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What’s a synonym?

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Words that have the same meaning, different words.
ie: Beautiful,attractive,pretty

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What’s an antonym?

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Words that mean the opposite.
Beautiful= horrible,ugly,disgusting

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What’s a homophone?

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Words with the same sound. ie: Their,there and they’re

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What’s a homograph?

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Words with the same spelling. ie: I read that book, I like to read

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What’s a homonym?

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Words with the same sound and spelling. ie: I can throw that can in the bin. 2 meanings sentence.
She is so bright and it’s such a bright day.

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What does morphology look at?

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Morphemes

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What’s a morpheme?

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Smallest unit of meaning, makes up all words

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What’s bound morpheme?

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Added to start of free morpheme ie: unattractive

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What’s suffix bound morpheme?

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Added to end of free morpheme. ie: Attractively

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What are (clauses) noun phrases?

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Words around a noun. ie: The old rush CAR on the drive.

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What’s pre modification? (Clauses)

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Head word modified before place in sentence.

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What’s post modification (clause)?

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Head words modified after place in sentence.
Ie: The sweet little bird with bright wings

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What’s a verb phrase?

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Words around a verb
ie: Dan DROVE his car down the road, Martha CRIED loudly down the phone.

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What’s a proper noun?

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Specific objects, people ,things always need capital letter.ie: London

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What’s a common noun?

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General, don’t need capital letters unless start of sentence. ie: cat, dog,table

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What’s a concrete noun?

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Something that can be touched.
ie: I put my pen on the table.

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What’s an abstract noun?

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Feelings like love or pain.
ie: anger, passion.

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What are collective nouns?

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Nouns used to describe groups, for people.

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What are base adjectives?

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Plain adjective without anything added to the end.
ie: big,pretty.

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What are comparative adjectives?

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‘Er’ added to the end. ie: Older

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What’s a superlative?

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‘Est’ added onto the end. Biggest.

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What’s a main verb?

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Describes the main action of the clause: eats, sleeps, runs
Sam runs to school.

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What’s the auxiliary verb?

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Verb, helps main verb of the sentence: do, be
Can, might ,will= modal aux verb.
ie: I AM bored-> auxiliary
She MAY WALK the dog-> aux and main.

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What’s a copular verb?

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Links the subject to noun/adj that complements subject.
Most common Copular = ‘is’
ie: The food TASTES amazing-> food= subject, tastes=copular, amazing=adj

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What’s a dynamic verb?

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Actions that can start and end: shout and hit
Can be material or verbal

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What’s a material dynamic verb?

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Concerned with events. Anna DROVE to work. Eddy MELTED the butter in the pan.

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What’s simple present?

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I walk, you walk, she walks etc.
Ie: Jenny loves Paul, we swim at the beach

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What’s present progressive?

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Action that’s happening now and will continue to happen/unfinished action.
ie: They are running for the bus, Patrick is doing his homework.

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What’s present perfect progressive?

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Action happened, unfinished.
ie: they have been running for three hours, they’ve been wanting concert tickets for ages!

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What’s present perfect?

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Action that’s already happened.
ie: Alice has forced me to come to her party, you have caused a problem.

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What is simple past?

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We PARTIED until 6am, he DECIDED to quit smoking

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What’s past progressive?

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She WAS EATING at the restaurant, they WERE FILMING for three hours.

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What’s past perfect?

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Action already happened before something else happened.
ie: She HAD DECIDED to quit her job.
you HAVE WORKED too many shifts.

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What’s past perfect progressive?

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Describing action that was continuous,now done.
ie: I HAD BEEN TRYING to lose weight, the children HAD BEEN SKATING many times before.

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What are relative pronouns?

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Link the noun to the clause. Include: who,what,where.
ie: Cigarettes WHICH are bad for your help are v expensive.

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What are demonstrative pronouns?

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Direct attention to something.
ie: This is the car Clara owns.

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Determiners: what is the definite article?

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Used when there’s something specific. ie:we are going for a drive in THE 🚗, open THE 🚪 please,

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What’s indefinite article?

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Used for something more general (like ‘a’)
ie: Can you pick up A carrot from the shops?

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What’s a quantifier?

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Determiners that are specific, display a quantity. ie: I have LOTS OF friends,Henry the 8th had SIX wives.

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What are the 2 main types of determiners?

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Articles and quantifies.

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How do coordinating conjunctions work?

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Join 2 of the same clause together. Ie: I love her FOR she is pretty.
For
And
Nor
But
OR
Yet
So

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What’s a subordinating conjunction?

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Join main clause and subordinate clause. ie: until,because,therefore,even though.
Ie: I liked Patrick before he broke my heart.

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What’s simple future?

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Action going to happen in future. Ie: I’m going on holiday next week.

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What’s future perfect progressive?

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Action that’s continuous, will be completed in future. ie: He WILL HAVE BEEN watching the news closely, Calvin WILL BE debating for the team.

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What’s future perfect?

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Action will be completed in the future. ie: Leo WILL HAVE worked non stop for 3 days, she WILL HAVE FINISHED her research by tomorrow.

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