Grammar

Question 0

Dog bit postman - person or thing performing the action is emphasised

Answer 0

Active voice

Question 1

Ideas, feelings, qualities

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Abstract nouns

Question 2

Word or group of words usually giving information about time or a place - on Friday

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Adverbial

Question 3

Placed in front of main verbs - he is running

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Auxiliary verb

Question 4

Part of a sentence usually separated by punctuation or connective

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Clause

Question 5

FANBOYS

Answer 5

Coordinating conjunction

Question 6

Groups of people, animals or things

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Collective nouns

Question 7

Types of people, places and brands

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Common nouns

Question 8

Comparison usually ending in -er (colder, faster, happier)

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Comparative adjective

Question 9

A main clause and a subordinate clause. A subordinating conjunction connects the clauses together

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Complex sentence

Question 10

Two independent clauses linked by a coordinating conjunction

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Compound sentence

Question 11

Things you can feel and see

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Concrete noun

Question 12

Shortened pronunciation of words - couldn’t, shouldn’t

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Contraction

Question 13

The, an/a

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Definite and indefinite article

Question 14

Pointing words - cannot be understood unless context of utterance is known

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Deictic expression

Question 15

This, that, those, these

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Demonstrative determiner/pronoun

Question 16

Used before a noun to indicate quantity, identity or significance

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Determiner

Question 17

Miss out parts of a sentence to avoid repetition

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Ellipses

Question 18

Command/directive

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Imperative

Question 19

Part of verb before it is changed - to run, to write, to be, to decide

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Infinitive

Question 20

Grammatical word ending in -er or -s

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Inflection/inflectional affix

Question 21

Can, will, could, would, should

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Modal verbs

Question 22

Smallest unit of language that expresses meaning or serves a grammatical function - unfair (2), hunters (3), truthfulness (4)

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Morphemes

Question 23

Study of the structure of words

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Morphology

Question 24

Has noun or pronoun as head word - the beach, the sandy beach

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Noun phrases

Question 25

Word formed from verb as a past participle (burnt, frightened) and present participle (burning, frightening)

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Participles

Question 26

Postman was bitten - emphasis on object of verb rather than subject

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Passive voice

Question 27

Replaces the subject or object of a sentence

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Personal pronoun

Question 28

My, your, our, his, hers, it’s, their

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Possessive determiner

Question 29

Show possession - mine, yours, hers, his, ours, it’s

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Possessive pronoun

Question 30

Group of letters commonly found at the beginning of words - re-, un-

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Prefix

Question 31

Takes place of noun - it, him etc

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Pronoun

Question 32

Indicates how one thing is related to something else

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Preposition

Question 33

Refers to people or places

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Proper noun

Question 34

Subject, verb, object or subject and verb

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Simple sentence

Question 35

Clause does not make sense on its own and is less important than the main clause

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Subordinate clause

Question 36

So, because, that

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Subordinate clause

Question 37

Groups of letters commonly found at ends of words (-able, -ly)

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Suffix

Question 38

Indicating highest degree - coldest, fastest

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Superlative adjective

Question 39

Aspect of grammar concerned with construction of sentences and word order

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Syntax