Grammar And Morphology

Question 1

Concrete noun

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A concrete noun is a noun that can be identified with one of the 5 senses (taste, touch, sight, hearing or smell) and is a physical thing

Question 2

Proper noun

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A name used for an individual person, place or organisation e.g London or Jane

Question 3

Abstract noun

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A type of noun that you can’t see or touch and usually denotes and idea or quality or state such as happiness or danger

Question 4

Pronoun

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A word that can function as a noun phrase alone and that refers to either the people in the discourse (I, you) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (she,it,this)

Question 5

Dynamic verb

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A word that shows continued/ progressive action - walking, jogging

Question 6

Stative verb

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Describes a state of being - concern, belong

Question 7

Imperative verb

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A verb that instructs people to do something

Question 8

Active verb

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An active verb is where the verb is clearly the subject/ ‘the doer’ in the sentence
‘My parents bought a house’ = the verb is active, the subject ( my parents) does the action of buying

Question 9

Passive verb

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When the subject of the sentence isn’t doing something the verb is passive
‘You are loved by me’ = the subject ( you) sits passively while the action (loving) is performed by somebody else ( me)

Question 10

Modal verb

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A word that expresses necessity or possibility

Question 11

Pre-modifier

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Pre-modifiers are words (adjectives) which modify the words that follow them in a sentence

Question 12

Post-modifier

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A word that follows a word or phrase that it describes

Question 13

Preposition

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A word or set of words that indicate location or some other relationship between noun and other parts of the sentence
The cat sat ON the mat

Question 14

Conjunction

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A word used to connect clauses or sentences

Question 15

Minor sentence

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A sentence that isn’t grammatically correct or complete

Question 16

Simple sentence

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A sentence consisting of one clause (no connectives) with a single subject

Question 17

Complex sentence

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A sentence containing a subordinate clause/ clauses

Question 18

Dependant clause

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A clause that provides a sentence with additional information but cannot stand as a sentence in its own: Molly likes hockey BECAUSE SHE ENJOYS IT (in bold = dependent clause)

Question 19

Independent clause

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A clause that can stand by itself as a simple sentence

Question 20

Subordinate clause ( same as dependent clause!)

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A clause that forms part of and is dependent on a main clause

Question 21

Embedded clause

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A clause that is in the middle on a main clause and adds information to a sentence

Question 22

Adjectival clause

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A type of dependent clause that works or describe a noun in a sentence; usually start with a relative pronoun
‘Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died’ = the noun is the plants and this is an adjectival clause because it describes that the plants have died

Question 23

Relative pronoun

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Used to connect a clause/phrase to a noun such as who, whose,whom, which and that

Question 24

Adverbial clause

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A group of words that function as an adverb in a sentence and entire clause modified a verb
‘IF SAM CALLS, tell him I will be late’

Question 25

Adverb

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Describes adjectives and verbs and they give information about how an action was performed:
“She walked SLOWLY’

Question 26

Indefinite article

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Refer to a non-specific noun

‘I want AN orange’ rather than ‘I want THE orange’

Question 27

Comparative

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Adjectives or phrases that compare one thing to another

‘Smarter’

Question 28

Superlative

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Adjective or adverb that expresses the highest quality or degree; ends in ‘est’ has a word like ‘most’ in front:
‘Bravest’ or ‘most fiercely’

Question 29

Absolute

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Phrase that modifies an independent clause but if taken away the sentence will still make sense in its own:
‘MUFFINS BAKING IN THE OVEN, Sally waited for her friends to arrive.’

Question 30

Interrogative sentence

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A question

Question 31

Declarative sentence

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A statement

Question 32

Exclamatory sentence

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Expresses extreme emotion and ends in and exclamation point

Question 33

Imperative sentence

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A command