Grammar

Question 1

Holophrastic/one-word

Answer 1

The stage where one word has a bigger meaning for the child: first words.

Question 2

Two-word.

Answer 2

Beginning of syntactical development. ‘Daddy kick’ means ‘dad, kick the ball!’

Question 3

Telegraphic

Answer 3

Joining two or more words. Development of questions, negatives and pronouns.

Question 4

Post telegraphic

Answer 4

Remaining function words acquired and used appropriately.

Question 5

Spatial Adjective

Answer 5

An adjective that relates to the position, size and shape of something - ‘big’, ‘large’, ‘round’.

Question 6

Superlative Adjective

Answer 6

Saddest, most beautiful, better, worse.

Question 7

Comparative adjective

Answer 7

Sadder, most beautiful, best, worst.

Question 8

Noun

Answer 8

Person, place, object or thing.

Question 9

Verb

Answer 9

A word to describe a state, action or occurrence.

Question 10

Preposition

Answer 10

A word expressing a relation to another element - the man ON the platform //// she ate AFTER the show.

Question 11

Pronoun

Answer 11

‘I’, ‘We’, ‘You’, etc.

Question 12

Interrogative Pronouns

Answer 12

Which, what, whom, who and whose (come at beginning of interrogatives)

Question 13

Bound morpheme

Answer 13

‘ing’ - a morpheme that cannot stand alone

Question 14

Free morpheme

Answer 14

a morpheme that can stand alone

Question 15

Present participle

Answer 15

Adding ‘ing’ to the end of a noun (usually) - this is the most common way of recognising them.

Question 16

Adverb

Answer 16

Usually end in ‘ly’, often modifies. ‘slowly’ ‘quickly’ ‘aggravatingly’, etc.

Question 17

Conjunction

Answer 17

And, but, if - a word that connects clauses or sentences together.

Question 18

Virtuous errors

Answer 18

Syntactic errors made by kids in which the utterance reveals an understanding.

Question 19

Stative verb

Answer 19

verbs that describe a state. Not usually used in the progressive.

Question 20

Dynamic verb

Answer 20

A type of verb that expresses activities and changes of state, allowing such forms as the progressive.

Question 21

Copula Verb

Answer 21

A verb to join a subject to a complement - ‘is’, ‘are’.

Question 22

Auxiliary verbs

Answer 22

Is, was, had

Question 23

Primary auxiliary verbs

Answer 23

be, have, do.

Question 24

Dummy auxiliary

Answer 24

Do (as you need it to form questions, but it makes no sense on its own)

Question 25

Modal auxiliary verbs

Answer 25

might, should, could, would, may, can, shall, will, must - they need a main verb.