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Grammar Basics Flashcards

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Accidence

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Grammatical variation in individual words eg write vs wrote

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Syntax

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how individual words are put together to make sentences.

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Inflexion

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The way individual words change in different grammatical contexts
Eg nouns can be inflected to indicate the plural

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Two types of adjective

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Attributive (green hat) or predicative (the hat is green)

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What can an adverb qualify? (4 ans)

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A verb, an adjective, another adverb, or a whole clause (eg then, fortunately)

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The three moods are

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Indicative
Imperative
Subjunctive

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Aspect

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Is the action completed or ongoing?

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Non-finite forms of a verb

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Infinitive (to wash)
Present participle (ran in, washing)
Past participle (ran in, washed)
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Two types of article

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Indefinite (a, an)

Definite (the)

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6 types of pronoun

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Personal (I)
Possessive (mine)
Reflexive (myself)
Relative (I, who...)
Interrogative (who?)
Demonstrative (that)
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Cases

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Nominative, accusative, genetive, ablative,

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Conjunctions are…

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Co-ordinating or subordinating

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Subject

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The nominative (active or passive) thing which the sentence is about, contrasted with the predicate

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Predicate (4 potential parts)

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The rest of the sentence excluding the subject
Eg 
Finite verb (essential)
Object (direct/indirect)
Complement (subject/object)
Adverb
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Transitive vs intransitive verbs

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Intransitive verbs can’t take an object (eg Raining, laughing, crying)

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Phrase vs clause

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Phrase doesn’t contain a subject and predicate; a clause does

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Compound sentence

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Contains more than one main clause, linked by a co-ordinating conjunction

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Complex sentence

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At least one subordinate clause

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Whats it called when one noun immediately follows another?

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In apposition to

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