Grammar

Question 1

Imperative sentences.

Answer 1

An instructive sentence. ‘Empty the dishwasher’.

Question 2

Interrogative sentences.

Answer 2

A questioning sentence. ‘Did you kill Joffrey?’.

Question 3

Exclamative sentences.

Answer 3

A sentence with an exclamation mark. ‘The child is blue!’.

Question 4

Declarative sentences.

Answer 4

A statement. ‘I am hungry.’

Question 5

Complex sentence.

Answer 5

A sentence containing a main clause, with one or more sub/dependent clauses. ‘He looked into the distance, wading into the water.’

Question 6

Compound sentence.

Answer 6

A sentence with two or more main clauses.

Question 7

Simple sentence.

Answer 7

A sentence with one clause. ‘I killed her slowly with a knife’.

Question 8

Minor sentence.

Answer 8

A sentence with words missing (ellipsis).

Question 9

Ellipsis.

Answer 9

Missing out words. (Minor sentences)

Question 10

Tense.

Answer 10

Past, present or future. (Then, Now, Will.)

Question 11

Syntax.

Answer 11

How the sentence is put together.

Question 12

Noun.

Answer 12

A name, actions, qualities. (Person, place, object or thing) T.O.P.P

Question 13

Abstract noun.

Answer 13

Words that senses can not detect - ‘Love’, ‘Honour’.

Question 14

Adverbs.

Answer 14

Modifies that typically end in ‘ly’, - ‘Quickly’.

Question 15

Adjectives.

Answer 15

Describing words. ‘Red’, ‘Ugly’.

Question 16

Verbs.

Answer 16

Words describing a state, action. ‘Running’.

Question 17

Paranthetical expressions.

Answer 17

Verbs such as ‘suppose’, ‘believe’, ‘think’ and ‘know’ which semantically express the strength of an utterance.

Question 18

Antecedent.

Answer 18

Pronoun which refers back to the noun.

Question 19

Indefinite article.

Answer 19

A non-specific determiner - ‘it’.

Question 20

Modal auxiliary verb.

Answer 20

Could, should, would, ought, might, shall, will, can, must.

Question 21

Definite article.

Answer 21

A specific determiner - ‘the’.

Question 22

Indefinite pronouns.

Answer 22

Being uncertain about someone. ‘Someone came ‘round’.

Question 23

Morphology.

Answer 23

Word formation.

Question 24

Morphemes.

Answer 24

Individual units that make up a word.

Question 25

Copular verb.

Answer 25

Linking verbs - no action. ‘Appear’, ‘is’, ‘what’.

Question 26

Demonstrative pronouns.

Answer 26

Modify nouns - most popular are ‘this’, ‘that’, ‘those’ and ‘these’. Not followed by nouns.

Question 27

Demonstrative adjectives.

Answer 27

Modify nouns. These are followed by nouns.

Question 28

Prefix.

Answer 28

The morpheme that comes before the base morpheme. ‘Non’ in ‘nonperishable’.

Question 29

Relative pronouns.

Answer 29

A relative pronouns introduces a relative clause. it is called a relative pronoun because it relates to the word that its relative clause modifies ‘who’, ‘that’, ‘which’, ‘whose’ and ‘whom’.

Question 30

Syntactically disguised imperative.

Answer 30

Another phrase for an imperative.

Question 31

Negative interrogatives.

Answer 31

Using a negated form in a question to suggest that the recipient should already know the answer, e.g ‘You didn’t revise yesterday, did you?’

Question 32

Directive speech acts.

Answer 32

Any sentence type which produces an instruction (all imperatives are directives, but not all directives are imperatives), e.g - ‘You should leave now’.

Question 33

Directive speech acts.

Answer 33

Any sentence type which produces an instruction (all imperatives are directives, but not all directives are imperatives), e.g - ‘You should leave now’.

Question 34

Nominative.

Answer 34

Subject of a sentence.

Question 35

Accusative.

Answer 35

Object of a sentence.