Grammar Flashcards
Proper Nouns
Name of particular people, places. Are always spelled with a capital letter.
Count noun
Can be interpreted as individual entities and can be therefore be counted e.g. School/schools, sweet/sweets.
Non-count nouns
Are interpreted as individual masses of material. They can treated as a singular e.g. Rice, bread and hair
Concrete nouns
We can see/fell them because they have physical attributes
Abstract nouns
WA can’t see/fell them e.g. Sound, dream and music
Regular nouns
Are privatised nouns usually end in ‘Es’ ‘s’
Irregular nouns
Not regular when being pluralised e.g. Mouse/ mice
Modifying nouns
Describe the noun can be adjectives or nouns
Pre-modifying
Come before the noun
Post-modifying nouns
Come after the nouns
Evaluative adjective
Based in a opinion, based of attitude and is biased
Descriptive adjectives
Based on a fact, non biased
Free morpheme
Can stand alone MANAGer
Bound Morphene
Can be prefix/sulfixes managER
Intensifiers
Very, extremely
Adverb of dinutating
Quite, a bit
Simple present tense
Regular verbs e.g. I walk
Simple past tense
Regular verbs e.g. I walked add Morphene
Irregular tense
Verbs change at the root he eat/ he ate
Present progressive
I AM teaching- aspect conveys of a anxiliarary verb: tense
Morphology
Word structure
Ambiguous
Open to multiple interpretations
Unambiguous
Direct meaning are interpreted clear explicit
Multifunction
Get rid off