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Proper Nouns

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Name of particular people, places. Are always spelled with a capital letter.

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Count noun

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Can be interpreted as individual entities and can be therefore be counted e.g. School/schools, sweet/sweets.

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Non-count nouns

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Are interpreted as individual masses of material. They can treated as a singular e.g. Rice, bread and hair

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Concrete nouns

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We can see/fell them because they have physical attributes

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Abstract nouns

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WA can’t see/fell them e.g. Sound, dream and music

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Regular nouns

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Are privatised nouns usually end in ‘Es’ ‘s’

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Irregular nouns

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Not regular when being pluralised e.g. Mouse/ mice

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Modifying nouns

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Describe the noun can be adjectives or nouns

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Pre-modifying

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Come before the noun

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Post-modifying nouns

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Come after the nouns

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Evaluative adjective

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Based in a opinion, based of attitude and is biased

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Descriptive adjectives

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Based on a fact, non biased

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13
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Free morpheme

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Can stand alone MANAGer

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Bound Morphene

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Can be prefix/sulfixes managER

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Intensifiers

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Very, extremely

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Adverb of dinutating

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Quite, a bit

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Simple present tense

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Regular verbs e.g. I walk

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Simple past tense

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Regular verbs e.g. I walked add Morphene

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Irregular tense

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Verbs change at the root he eat/ he ate

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Present progressive

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I AM teaching- aspect conveys of a anxiliarary verb: tense

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Morphology

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Word structure

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Ambiguous

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Open to multiple interpretations

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Unambiguous

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Direct meaning are interpreted clear explicit

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Multifunction

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Get rid off

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Dynamic action

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Running, dancing with

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Statics verbs

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Describe a state of a being e.g. Learn think

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Anxiliarary verbs

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Present participle tense, past participle tense am->was

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All ‘ing’ verbs

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Are present participle

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Connotations

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Suggestions meaning

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Denotation

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Literal meaning

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Rhetoric

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Language of persuasion

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Determiners define article

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The

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Determiners indefinite article

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A, An

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Demonstrative determiners

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Demonstrate proximity meaning e.g. This, that, these

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Possessive determiners
Singular: my, f.person possessive
Yours, s.p.p.
His, hers, it’s, t.p.p.

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Plural: our. F.p.p
Yours s.p.p
Theirs. T.p.p

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Common Nouns

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The most typical nouns such as: word, school and book. A common noun can always form a phrase with the word ‘the’ ‘a’.