English Flashcards
Which sentence requires structural analysis for someone to understand the meaning of the word?
Structural analysis: dividing words into parts to discover what an unknown word means. Word parts contribute to the overall meaning of a word. Many words in the English language are composed of a root, a prefix, and/or a suffix.)
Which sentence is a compound sentence?
Compound sentence: a sentence with more than one subject or predicate. A sentence that has at least two independent clauses joined by a comma, semicolon or conjunction. An independent clause is a clause that has a subject and verb and forms a complete thought.
———Ex: This house is too expensive, and that house is too small.
Separated by a comma and joined by FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so).
Which set of words have the same morphemes? It asked about what set has the same root morpheme.
Morpheme - the smallest meaningful piece of a word.
Ex: Unbelievably: Un-Believe-Able-ly
What consists of a vowel sound and optional constants?
Onset & Rime (not rhyme):
Onset is the initial consonant(s) sound of a syllable (the b- of bag; the sw- of swim)
Rime is the part of the syllable that contains the vowel and all that follows it (the -ag of bag; the -im of swim)
Read a poem, identify it’s a metaphor.
Metaphor: a figure of speech, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. One thing is discussed as though it were something else. The words like or as ARE NOT USED.
For example, “My life’s a tennis match, but I never get to serve” is a metaphor.
Simile vs Metaphor
Simile: “She was as slow as a sail.”
Simile meaning: A simile is a sentence that describes by using like or as
Metaphor: “She is a snail.”
What determines the quantitative tool for ability to read?
Length of words and sentences
Abnormal behavior for a second language learner
First Language Acquisition Stages:
1. Babbling
2. One-word stage/holophrastic stage
3. Two-word stage
4. Telegraphic stage/early multiword stage
5. Later multiword stage
Second Language Acquisition Stages:
1. Silent/Receptive Phase
2. Early Production
3. Speech Emergence/Production
4. Intermediate Fluency
5. Continued Language Development or Fluency
Phoneme
Smallest unit of sound.
K-I-T= KIT
Grapheme
Represents a phoneme in writing.
3 graphemes in the word KIT. Each letter is a grapheme.
Morpheme
Smallest unit of meaning
KIT is one meaning.
CUPCAKE= 2 morphemes. Cake and cup
Subject Verb Agreement
Rule 1: If you have a singular subject, you must use these verbs: is, was, has, does or VERBS ENDING in S or ES because these verbs are singular verb forms.
Rule 2: If you have a plural subject, you must these verbs: are, were. have, do or VERBS WITHOUT S or ES endings because these verbs are plural verb words.
Rule 3: Any time you have the pronoun YOU as the subject of the sentence, you MUST USE the PLURAL VERB forms, which are WERE, ARE, HAVE, DO or VERBS without s or es endings.
Syntax
The study of how we use words to make phrases, clauses, or sentences.
Noun
A person, place, or thing.
Pronoun
Replaces the noun with I, she, he, we.
