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AQA A-Level English Language (Paper 1) > Grammar > Flashcards

Grammar Flashcards

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What is a Common noun

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Common nouns classify things into general categories, like a car, dog or flower

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What is a proper noun

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A proper noun is a type that refers to specific place or people and usually begin with a capital letter

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What is a concrete noun

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A concrete noun is one that refers to physical things like people, objects and places - guitar, table, clothes.

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What is an abstract noun

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An abstract noun is one that refers to ideas, processes, occasions, times and qualities; they cannot be seen or touched - happiness, week and birth

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What is a count noun

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A count noun is a noun that can be counted and has a plural form such as a pen, lorry and cup

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What is a non-count noun

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A non-count noun is one that refers to substances and qualities that can’t be counted such as traffic and information

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What is a Superlative

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A superlative is an adjective formed by adding an “-est” ending.

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What is a comparative

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A comparative is an adjective formed by adding “-er” or “more” to an adjective.

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What is a modifier

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A modifier is a word that describes a noun, such as the “GARDEN” wall.

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What is the subject of a sentence

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The subject of a sentence is the person or thing doing the action

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What is the object of a sentence

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The object of a sentence is the person or thing receiving the action

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What is a personal pronoun

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A personal pronoun is a substitute for a persons name such as I, you, we,

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What is a possessive pronoun.

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A possessive pronoun shows possession such as mine, ours, yours, his

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What is a reflexive pronoun

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A reflexive pronoun is substitute for the object in a sentence such as myself, yourself, ourselves, themselves

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What is an indefinite pronoun

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An indefinite pronoun is when an object doesn’t need to specified such as anybody, anything, everyone, somebody, nobody

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What is a interrogative pronoun

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A interrogative pronoun is when questions are asked such as whose, which, what and how

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What is a lexical verb

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A lexical verb is a single verb expressing visual meaning such as walked, laughed and started

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What is a stative verb

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A stative verb is a verb used to show state of being a process such as believed, know and suppose

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What is a dynamic verb

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A dynamic verb is a verb used to show a physical state that can be visually identified such as hop, draw and run

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What is an auxiliary verb

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An auxiliary verb is a verb placed in front of the main verb to help them out such as ARE in are flying and WAS in everyone was flying

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What is a modal verb

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A modal verb is a verb used only in conjunction with the main verb such as can, shall, will, would, should, might

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What are the two main types of determiners

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the two main types of determiners are articles and quantifiers

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What is a definite article

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A definite article is a word such as “the” used when there is something specific such as the door, the boy, the house

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What is an indefinite article

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An indefinite article is a word such as “a” used for something more general such as a door, a boy and a house

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What are quantifiers

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Quantifiers are words which show a quantity such as six, a few, many and lots of

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What are the types of mood

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types of mood are imperative, indicative, interrogative, conditional and subjunctive mood

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What is indicative mood

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Indicative mood is when a fact is being given such as Patrick plays the guitar

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What is conditional mood

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Conditional mood is used to express proposition and is made up of the modal verb would such as I would like sushi for dinner

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What is subjunctive mood

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Subjunctive mood is used to describe a hypothetical situation such as I recommend that you buy a new dress (because the dress hasn’t been bought)

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What are antonyms

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antonyms are words with opposite meanings

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What are hyponyms

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Hyponyms are words arranged in hierarchy of meaning from general to more specific. Hypernym is the category and hyponyms are the sub-categories

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What is a compound pronoun

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A compound pronoun is one with every-, some-, any- as a prefix such as everything something and anything

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What are the four types of adverb

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The four types of adverb are of manner, time, frequency and place

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Example of adverb of manner

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adverb of manner is slowly or cautiously

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Example of adverb of time

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adverb of time is now or tomorrow

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Example of adverb of frequency

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adverb of frequency is always or rarely

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Examples of adverb of place

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adverb of place is here or there

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What is an adverbial phrase

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Adverbial phrase is a phrase with an adverb as its main word such as - the child laughed loudly or they waited very impatiently

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What is a pre-modifying adjective

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A pre-modifying adjective is an adjective before the noun

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What is anaphora

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Anaphora is the repetition of words at the start of successive clauses

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What is a euphemism

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A euphemism is a word used to describe unpleasant things in a more pleasant way

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What is a triadic structure

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A triadic structure is a list of three

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conditional sentence

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conditional sentence is when clause starts with “if” like “If they don’t shut up, I’ll….”

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what is a noun phrase

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a noun phrase is phrase usually beginning with determiner (the, a, an) and a noun is the most important word like “THE BABY is crawling over THE GRASS” or “we enjoyed OUR VISIT TO THE ZOO”

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what is an adjectival phrase

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an adjectival phrase is a phrase with adjective as most important word like “the sky was an OMINOUS SHADE OF BLACK” or “it was an EXTREMELY DANGEROUS sport”

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what is a verb phrase

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a verb phrase is a phrase usually made up of a main and auxiliary verb like “she HAD BEEN LAUGHING Stewart” or “she MUST HAVE NEEDED help at the time”

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what is a prepositional phrase

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a prepositional phrase is a phrase with a preposition like “she hid UNDER THE TABLE” or “it was a race AGAINST TIME”

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what is an adverbial phrase

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an adverbial phrase is a phrase with an adverb as its most important word like “the child laughed LOUDLY” or “the crowd jostled VERY IMPATIENTLY”

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Anaphoric referencing

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anaphoric referencing is where a pronoun is used to refer to an earlier noun in the text

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cataphoric referencing

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cataphoric referencing is when a pronoun is used to refer to a noun which comes later in the text

AQA A-Level English Language (Paper 1) (5 decks)

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