Grammar Flashcards
What is a proper noun?
= names of places or people (e.g. London, Susan)
What is a concrete noun?
= objects (e.g. car, table)
What is an abstract noun?
= feelings and ideas (e.g. life, love)
What are collective nouns?
= groups of people or animals (e.g. flock, community)
What are modal (auxiliaries) verbs?
= can, could, would, will, should, shall, may, might, must.
What are stative verbs?
= verbs which refer to mental states or actions you can’t see (to be, to believe, to know).
What are dynamic verbs?
= verbs which refer to physical actions (e.g. to run, to eat).
What are qualitative adjectives?
= FACTUAL describe objective qualities (e.g. the red car, the square table).
What are evaluative adjectives?
= describe subjective qualities which are someone’s opinion (e.g. the clever boy, the surprising event).
What are comparative adjectives?
= more confident, better, uglier.
What is a superlative adjective?
= most confident, best, ugliest.
What are adverbs?
= tells us more about a verb. HOW an action is being done. MOST end in ‘-ly’ (e.g. slowly).
What is a personal first person pronoun?
= narrator speaks in the first person (e.g. I, we, me).
What is a personal second person pronoun?
= you (subject), you (object)
What is a personal third person pronoun?
= he, she, they, it.
