Grammar

Question 1

Noun

Answer 1

A word class to identify objects, people or things, as well as consepsts.

Question 2

Artical

Answer 2

Used to modify nouns. E.g ‘the’ and ‘a’

Question 3

Verb

Answer 3

Word class that depicts an action.

Question 4

Adjective

Answer 4

Word class that describes a noun.

Question 5

Adverb

Answer 5

Word class that describes the verb.

Question 6

Minor sentences/ellipsis

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A word is missed out of a sentence/ incomplete.

Question 7

Concrete noun

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A physical object.

Question 8

Abstract noun

Answer 8

A idea, quality or state

Question 9

Proper Noun

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Place and person, nouns spelled with a capital letter.

Question 10

Collective noun

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Denote a group of individuals.

Question 11

Standard English

Answer 11

Form of English widely ‘accepted’ as the correct form.

Question 12

Non Standard English

Answer 12

Not conforming to the ‘accepted’ form of English.

Question 13

Contractions

Answer 13

Abbreviated words.

Question 14

Modifiers

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An umbrella term for adjectives and adverbs.

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Intensifies

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Adverbs of high and low degrees. E.g very good

Question 16

Simple sentence

Answer 16

Independent clause.

Question 17

Compound sentence

Answer 17

Two main clauses joined by a conjunction.

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Complex Sentence

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Inderpendent clause joined by a dependent joined by a clause.

Question 19

Interragotive Sentence

Answer 19

Question.

Question 20

Imperative Sentence

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Command sentence.

Question 21

Exclamative sentence

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Expressing strong feelings.

Question 22

Declarative Sentence

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Stating a fact.

Question 23

Copula verb

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Linking verbs that join subjects with an adjective or noun. E.g Is, Am, Are and Was.

Question 24

Preposition

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Placed in front of nouns, describes the relationship between the noun and the other words.

Question 25

Infinitive

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Basic form of the verb, without an inderpendent partial. ‘To infront’ ‘to eat’ ‘to sleep’.

Question 26

Morpheme

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Lowest unit of language that can convey meaning. They are words that cannot be separated.

Question 27

Grapheme

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The smallest unit of writing that can change the meaning of a word. This can be a letter or a group of letters, that represent a single phonem. E.g ‘ing’ ‘dis’ ‘un’.

Question 28

Diminutive

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A version of a noun that refers to a small version of something. E.g “Dog” becomes “doggie”

Question 29

Genitive pronoun

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Linguistical term for possive pronouns. E.g my, mine, his, ours and theirs.

Question 30

Non Standard grammar

Answer 30

Use of grammatical features which are not considered to be ‘correct’.

Question 31

Conditional clauses

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Hypothetical or state a condition. E.g a sentence starting with ‘if’.

Question 32

Mitigated imperative

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A syntactically disguised imperative. E.g could be mitigated via conditional clauses or tentative language.

Question 33

Modal auxiliary verb

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Verbs that indicate possibility, capability, necessity or willingness to change form. E.g. Can, Could, May, Might, Must, Ought, Should, Show, Shall, will and Would.

Question 34

Tag questions

Answer 34

String of words normally added to a declarative sentence.

Question 35

Antecedent Nouns

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Word that pronouns refer to. E.g. “He worked all day; John was tired”.

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Anaphora

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Repetition of words or phrases at beginning of a successive clause.

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Anadiplosis

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Repetition of words or phrases at the end of a successive clause.

Question 38

Syntactic paraleism

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Repetition in adjacent clauses and sentences.

Question 39

Polysyndeton

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Using of Conjunctions. E.g and, but

Question 40

Asydeton

Answer 40

Not using conjunctions.

Question 41

Compound nouns

Answer 41

A noun made up of two or more words.