Grammar Flashcards
Holophrastic/one-word
The stage where one word has a bigger meaning for the child: first words.
Two-word.
Beginning of syntactical development. ‘Daddy kick’ means ‘dad, kick the ball!’
Telegraphic
Joining two or more words. Development of questions, negatives and pronouns.
Post telegraphic
Remaining function words acquired and used appropriately.
Spatial Adjective
An adjective that relates to the position, size and shape of something - ‘big’, ‘large’, ‘round’.
Superlative Adjective
Saddest, most beautiful, better, worse.
Comparative adjective
Sadder, most beautiful, best, worst.
Noun
Person, place, object or thing.
Verb
A word to describe a state, action or occurrence.
Preposition
A word expressing a relation to another element - the man ON the platform //// she ate AFTER the show.
Pronoun
‘I’, ‘We’, ‘You’, etc.
Interrogative Pronouns
Which, what, whom, who and whose (come at beginning of interrogatives)
Bound morpheme
‘ing’ - a morpheme that cannot stand alone
Free morpheme
a morpheme that can stand alone
Present participle
Adding ‘ing’ to the end of a noun (usually) - this is the most common way of recognising them.
