Grammar Flashcards

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Noun

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

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Artical

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

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Verb

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Word class that depicts an action.

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Adjective

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Word class that describes a noun.

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Adverb

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Word class that describes the verb.

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Minor sentences/ellipsis

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A word is missed out of a sentence/ incomplete.

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Concrete noun

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A physical object.

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Abstract noun

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A idea, quality or state

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Proper Noun

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Place and person, nouns spelled with a capital letter.

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Collective noun

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Denote a group of individuals.

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Standard English

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

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Non Standard English

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Not conforming to the ‘accepted’ form of English.

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Contractions

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Abbreviated words.

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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

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Simple sentence

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Independent clause.

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Compound sentence

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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.

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Interragotive Sentence

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Imperative Sentence

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Command sentence.

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Exclamative sentence

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Expressing strong feelings.

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Declarative Sentence

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Stating a fact.

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Copula verb

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

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Preposition

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

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Infinitive
Basic form of the verb, without an inderpendent partial. 'To infront' 'to eat' 'to sleep'.
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Morpheme
Lowest unit of language that can convey meaning. They are words that cannot be separated.
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Grapheme
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'.
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Diminutive
A version of a noun that refers to a small version of something. E.g "Dog" becomes "doggie"
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Genitive pronoun
Linguistical term for possive pronouns. E.g my, mine, his, ours and theirs.
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Non Standard grammar
Use of grammatical features which are not considered to be 'correct'.
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Conditional clauses
Hypothetical or state a condition. E.g a sentence starting with 'if'.
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Mitigated imperative
A syntactically disguised imperative. E.g could be mitigated via conditional clauses or tentative language.
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Modal auxiliary verb
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.
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Tag questions
String of words normally added to a declarative sentence.
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Antecedent Nouns
Word that pronouns refer to. E.g. "He worked all day; John was tired".
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Anaphora
Repetition of words or phrases at beginning of a successive clause.
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Anadiplosis
Repetition of words or phrases at the end of a successive clause.
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Syntactic paraleism
Repetition in adjacent clauses and sentences.
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Polysyndeton
Using of Conjunctions. E.g and, but
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Asydeton
Not using conjunctions.
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Compound nouns
A noun made up of two or more words.