Grammar Flashcards
morpheme
the smallest grammatical until
What is a free morpheme
a morpheme that can stand on its own as a word
example- girl, man, house
what is a bound morpheme
a morpheme that can not stand on its own, combines with others to make a word
example-prefixes, pre-,re-
suffixes, inflectional and derivational
what is a derivational morpheme
prefixes such as de, pre and suffixes such as ly, able, er
what is an inflectional morpheme
suffixes, plural s, ing or ed
inflectional bound morpheme
provides tense and plurality
what are phrases
a group of word centred around a head word
noun phrases
noun phrase is words around a noun
head word is surrounded by some for of description
example ,the fat man had bulging roles
what is pre-modification
where the head word I seeing modified before its place in the sentence
what is post-modification
head word is being modified after its place in the sentence
types of nouns
collective nouns (flock)
proper noun (Paris)
concrete noun (table)
abstract noun (love, creativity)
what is a verb
decrives an action, state or occcurance
example of verb phrase
Dan drove the car down the road
types of verbs
stative (love, want)
transitive (ate, bought)
auxiliary (be, have, go)
intanstitve (fly, slept)
modal verb (can, could,would)
types of adjectives
comparative (taller, shorter,lazier)
superlative (less intelligent)
predicative (happy, sad)
types of adverbs
manner (softly)
time( soon)
place (here)
what is a clause
group of words containing subject and a verb
independent clause
group of words contains a subject and a verb and can stand alone as a complete sentence
subordinating conjunctions
after
althoug
since
until
because
what is a subordinating clause
can not stand alone as a complete sentence
the joining of two or more clauses where only one is independent and other is dependent
what are sentence functions
declaratives
interrogatives
imperatives
exlamatives
what is a phoneme
how language sounds
what is a lexeme
a single word
what is a polyseme
words that can be used in multiple contexts or setting such as sick
