Grammar Terminology Flashcards
What is a Noun?
Naming words that identify a person, place, thing or quality.
What is a Proper Noun?
The name of a particular person, place, organization or thing.
What is an Abstract Noun?
Words that refer to an idea or concept that doesn’t exist and cannot be touched.
What is an Adjective?
Word that describes a noun.
What is an Evaluative Adjective?
Word that adds a biased positive or negative opinion.
What is a Superlative Adjective?
Word that describes an object which is at the upper or lower limit of the quality. e.g. the smallest and the biggest.
What is a Verb?
Word that says what a person or thing does. Describing an action, state or occurrence.
What is the Passive Tense?
When the thing receiving the action is the subject of the sentence and the thing doing the action is included near the end of the sentence. e.g. The students were taught by the teacher.
What is an Auxillary Verb?
Word that comes before the main verb and adds more detail. e.g. to have, to be. I HAVE asked them to leave.
What is a Copular Verb?
Word that links the subject of the sentence to a subject complement. e.g. The sky is blue.
What is a Modal Auxillary Verb?
An auxillary verb that is used to express modalities such as possibilities. e.g. can, could, may, might. e.g. HE MAY win the lottery.
What is a Stative Verb?
Word about disliking or liking something or about a mental state.
What is a Dynamic Verb?
Word that describes an action.
What is an Adverb?
Word that gives more information and describes verbs.
What is a Pronoun?
Word that is used instead of a noun or noun phrase.
What is a Personal Pronoun?
Word that refer to people.
What is a Demonstrative Pronoun?
Word that points to a specific thing.
What is a Indefinite Pronoun?
Word that doesn’t refer to anything in particular.
What is a Determiner?
Word that is followed by a noun. Indicate kind of reference that a verb has. e.g. a, an, what.
What is a Possessive Determiner?
Word that shows who owns or possesses something. e.g. Is that car YOURS?
What is a Quantifying Determiner?
Word that indicates quantity. e.g. more or less.
What is a Definite Article?
Words that indicate something specific.
What is an Indefinite Article?
Words that indicate something unspecific.
What is a Preposition?
They precede the noun and describe the position of something.
e.g. The plane was ABOVE the clouds.
What is a Conjunction?
Word that connects other words, phrases or clauses together.
What is a Coordinating Conjunction?
Word that springs to mind when people think about conjunctions. Used to join phrases together.
What is a Subordinating Conjunction?
Word that links a main clause to a less important one.
What is a Noun Phrase?
A phrase that has a noun or pronoun as its head. e.g. I found the owner of the dog. The noun phrase would be ‘owner of the dog’.
What is a Morpheme?
Smallest meaningful word in a language.
What is an Inflectional Morpheme?
A suffix assigned to a Morpheme to change the tense that it is in. e.g. ing, ed, s.
What is Syntax?
The study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units like sentences.
What is a Minor Sentence?
A sentence that doesn’t have a main verb in it.
What is a Compound Sentence?
A sentence that connects two independent clauses with a coordinating conjunction.
What is a Complex Sentence?
A sentence that connects an independent clause and a dependent clause.
What are the 4 sentence types?
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Declarative
Interrogative
Imperative
Exclamative
