English language revison Flashcards
What are the main subsystems of language?
Phonetics and Phonology, morphology and lexicology, syntax, semantics, and discourse
syntax is…
study of sentence structure
What does semantics study?
The meaning in language
What is phonetics?
The study of speech sounds and how to transcribe them
morphology is..
The study of the structure or forms of words.
Lexicology
study of words
Phonology
study of sound systems
Discourse
Connected series of sentences or utterances and how they link
what are the types of sentences
Exclamatory, Interrogative, Imperative, Declarative
Those parts of speech I can’t remember
Conjunctions, Interjections, Prepositions
Conjunctions
Joins parts of sentences together
Prepostions
An object in terms of space, time, location and directions
Interjections
express emotions, animal sounds
Auxiliary verbs
Don’t have meaning just grammer
Coordinating conjunctions
FANBOYS
Subordinating conjunctions
Although, because, despite, however
Tenses
simple, continuous, perfect - past, present, future
In a continuous tense sentence
Ing
In a perfect tense sentence
have, had, has (impacting currently)
