grammar

Question 1

morpheme

Answer 1

smallest unit of meaning

Question 2

root/base

Answer 2

a morpheme in a word that gives the word its principle meaning e.g. woman in womanly

Question 3

prefix

Answer 3

a bound morpheme that can be added to the beginning of a base e.g. un(healthy)

Question 4

suffix

Answer 4

an bound morpheme that occurs after the base e.g. (capital)ism

Question 5

plurality

Answer 5

making a word plural, often by adding an -s ending

Question 6

tense

Answer 6

how the time of the event is marked e.g. past present and future

Question 7

person

Answer 7

a category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms, according to whether they indicate the speaker (first person), the adressee (second person), or a third party (third person)

Question 8

deixis

Answer 8

pointing via language, can be spatial (relating to place), temporal (relating to time), personal (pronouns), ideological (attitude, elevation), exophoric (outside the text), endophoric (inside the text),

Question 9

free morpheme

Answer 9

can stand alone in a specific meaning e.g. eat, date, weak

Question 10

bound morpheme

Answer 10

morphemes that cannot stand alone with meaning

Question 11

declarative

Answer 11

a grammatical mood where the subject is followed by a verb in a sentence which expresses a statement e.g. the balloon flew over the mountain

Question 12

interrogative

Answer 12

used in questions that require an answer, indicated by a question mark interrogative adverbs e.g. when, where, how

Question 13

imperative

Answer 13

a grammatical mood expressing a directive using a verb in the base form with no subject i.e. a command e.g. come here

Question 14

exclamatory

Answer 14

using, containing or expressing an exclamation, indicated by an exclamation mark

Question 15

modal auxiliary

Answer 15

used with the base form of another verb to express distinctions of mood e.g. can, could, might ,shall, should, will, would, must

Question 16

modals

Answer 16

give the mode, manner or form of another word e.g. modal auxiliaries

Question 17

phrase

Answer 17

a group of words that has no finite verb

Question 18

modification

Answer 18

adding of additional words to provide more detail to a head word in a phrase

Question 19

clause

Answer 19

a group of phrases which usually has a tensed verb phrase

Question 20

sentence

Answer 20

a grammatical structure made up of one or more clauses, marked by a capital letter and a full stop

Question 21

subordination

Answer 21

joining two or more clauses where only one is independent and the other is dependent

Question 22

active voice

Answer 22

the subject of the sentence performs the action

Question 23

aspect

Answer 23

element of marking the time of an event by specifying whether they are progressive of perfective

Question 24

coordination

Answer 24

joining of two or more independent clauses via coordinating conjunctions

Question 25

head word

Answer 25

the main word in a phrase

Question 26

passive voice

Answer 26

the subject of the sentence receives the action

Question 27

sentence function

Answer 27

the purpose a sentence fulfils in communication

Question 28

word class

Answer 28

the grammatical category into which words can be placed, including noun, adjective, verb, adverb, determiner, pronoun, preposition, conjunction

Question 29

verb

Answer 29

express action, state or relation between two things

Question 30

noun

Answer 30

referring to persons, place, things, states, or qualities

Question 31

adjective

Answer 31

modify nouns and pronouns, describing a quality of the word they are describing

Question 32

adverb

Answer 32

modify verbs and clauses

Question 33

adverbial

Answer 33

a word or phrase functioning as an adverb

Question 34

modal auxiliary

Answer 34

any of the group of auxiliary verbs that are used with the base form of another verb to express distinctions of mood

Question 35

superlative

Answer 35

the highest degree of the comparison of adjectives and adverbs e.g. smallest