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1
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What does prescriptivism focus on?

A

rules and ideas of correctness of language

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2
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What does descriptivism focus on?

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How language is actually used

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3
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What is morphology?

A

How words are formed

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4
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What is a root word?

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A word on its own

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What is a suffix?

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morpheme that comes at the end of a root word

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What is a prefix?

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morpheme that comes at the start of a root word

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What is an affix?

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An overall word for an addition to a root word

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What is a noun phrase?

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A group of words built around a noun

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What is a verb phrase? *

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A group of words built around a verb

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What is a headword?

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The main (noun) in a phrase

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What is a pre-modifier? *

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A word before the head (noun) to add detail

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What is a qualifier?

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an additional word/phrase that adds further detail to the (noun)

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What is a post-modifier?

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A word after the head noun to add detail

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14
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What is an auxiliary verb?

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A verb that expresses changes in tense

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15
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What is a modal verb? *

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Shows possibility, necessity, certainty, and obligation.

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16
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What is a clause?

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A group of words containing a subject and a verb that have a relationship

17
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What is the subject in a clause?

A

The thing that does the verb

18
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What is the object in a clause?

A

The thing that is acted on by the verb

19
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What is a simple sentence?

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A sentence that contains 1 clause
(one action)

20
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What is a compound sentence?

A

A sentence that contains at least 2 clauses joined by a conjunction
(or by a comma, or semicolon)

21
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What is a complex sentence?

A

A sentence that contains a subordinating clause connected with a subordinating conjunction
(one half cannot be a sentence by itself)

22
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What is a subordinating conjunction?

A

A conjunction that introduces a subordinate clause
(anything but and but and or)

23
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What is a subordinate clause?*

A

Part of a sentence that doesn’t make sense on its own but has a subject and a verb

24
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What is an active voice?

A

Where the subject of the sentence performs the action

25
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What is a passive voice?

A

The person performing the action is unmentioned or mentioned later

26
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What 4 things do verb phrases show?

A

obligation, certainty, possibility, necessity

27
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What is an orthographic sentence?

A

a sentence marked by a capital letter and a full stop with no verb

28
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What is a question sentence called?

A

Interrogative

29
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What is a command sentence called?

A

Imperative

30
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What is a statement sentence called?

A

Declarative

31
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What is an exclamation sentence called?

A

Exclamative

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