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1
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what is a phrase?

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a group of words that don’t have a verb

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what is a clause?

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groups of words centred around a verb phrase

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3
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what is morphology?

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the way the words are formed

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what is syntax?

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the way the words are sequenced in a phrase or sentence

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what is a head word?

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the main word in a phrase

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what are modifiers?

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words that describe the head word or gives more information about it

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where does a pre-modifier go?

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before the head word

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where does the post- modifier go?

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after the head word

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what is a noun phrase?

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a phrase without a verb, where a noun is the headword

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what is a material verb process?

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‘doing/ happening’

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what is a mental verb process?

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‘sensing/ feeling/ thinking’

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what is a verbal verb process?

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‘saying, exclaiming’

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13
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what do modal verbs do?

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they change the meaning of other words, they express certainty

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what is the descriptive approach?

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taking an approach to language study that focuses on how language is actually used

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what is the prescriptive approach?

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taking an approach to language study that focuses on rules and notions of correctness

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16
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smallest units -> largest units

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morpheme, word, phrase, clause, sentence, text

17
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what is a morpheme?

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the smallest unit of grammatical function

18
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what is a noun phrases constituent elements?

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•headword
•determiner
•modifier
•qualifier

19
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what is a root?

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a morpheme that can stand on its own and can usually form a word in its own right

20
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what is a suffix?

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a morpheme that comes after a root word to modify its meaning

21
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what is a prefix?

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a morpheme that goes before a root word to modify its meaning

22
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what is an affix?

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the overall term for an addition to a root to modify its meaning or create a new word

23
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what is an inflectional function?

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the way that an affix shows a grammatical category such as a verb tense or a plural noun

24
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what is a derivational function?

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the way that an affix helps form a new word by attaching itself to a root

25
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what is a verb phrase?

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a group of words built around a head verb

26
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what are the constituent elements of clauses?

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•subject
•object
•complement
•adverbial

27
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what is coordination?

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the joining of two clauses that gives them equal weighting

28
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what is subordination?

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the joining of two clauses that gives one clause (the main one) more weighting than another clause or clauses (the subordinate clauses)

29
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what is an adverbial clause?

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a subordinate clause that functions as an adverbial

30
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what is a noun clause?

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a subordinate clause that functions as a subject, object or complement

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