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Grammatical Analysis Flashcards

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What is a collocation?

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  • Words that go together
  • Fish and chips
  • Safe and sound
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What is active voice?

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  • A clause construction with the agent noun phrase in subject position
  • Focus lies upon the agent, if we look for blame we look to the agent
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What is “police shoot hostage” an example of?

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Active voice

Police= Agent Hostage= Affected

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What is passive voice?

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A clause construction with the affected noun phrase in subject position

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What is “hostage shot by police” an example of?

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Passive voice

Hostage= Affected Police= Agent

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What is the subject, agent and affected of the sentence “The child chased the dog”?

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Subject= The
Agent= Child
Affected= Dog

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What does passive voice consist of?

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  • Auxiliary verb ‘to be’
  • Main verb as past participle
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What is an adverbial?

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A phrase modifying a verb

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What is the affected?

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The noun impacted upon by the action of the verb

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What are adverbs?

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  • Give extra meaning to a verb, adjective, another adverb or a whole sentence
  • E.g. I ‘REALLY’ (adverb) enjoyed (verb) the party
  • E.g. ‘REALLY’ (adverb) he should do better (sentence)
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What is a preposition?

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  • Words such as: at, over, by, with
  • Usually followed by a noun phrase
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What do prepositions often indicate?

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Time- AT midnight, DURING the film, ON friday

Position- AT the station, IN a field, BY the car

Direction- TO the station, OVER a fence

Possession- OF this street

Accompaniment- WITH me

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What are the types of conjunction?

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  1. Co-ordinating
  2. Subordinating
  3. Fronted
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What are co-ordinating conjunctions?

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  • and, but, or, so
  • Join 2 clauses of equal weight (do you want to go now OR shall we wait a bit longer?)
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What are subordinating conjunctions examples?

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  • When (ever)
  • While
  • Before
  • After
  • Since
  • If/ As
  • Because
  • Although
  • That
  • Until
  • Once
  • Where (ever) (as)
  • Unless
  • Whether
  • Than
  • Like
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What is an example of a defining relative clause?

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The house THAT I live in

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What is an example of a non defining clause?

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The house WHICH I live in

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What is anaphoric referencing?

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  • When a word or phrase refers to something mentioned earlier in the discourse
  • Michael went into the bank, HE was annoyed because IT was closed
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What is cataphoric referencing?

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  • When a word or phrase refers to something mentioned later in the discourse
  • Although I phone HER every day, my mum still complains I don’t speak to her enough
  • The BOOK was there on the table, I’d never read Moby Dick
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What is exophoric referencing?

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  • When a word or phrase refers to something outside of the discourse
  • THEY’RE late again
  • IT’LL get cold
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What is cultural capital?

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  • Using a word or phrase with no further explanation because there is an assumption the audience know who or what it is
  • Using someones name and not explaining who they are because it’s assumed the audience is already aware
  • COP21 stated that..
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What is deixis?

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  • Context bound information only relevant to the conversation
  • The use of general words and phrases to refer to a specific time, place or person in context
  • tomorrow, there, they
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What is a vocative?

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  • Names
  • Family titles: mummy, dad, auntie
  • Labels: sir, madam, ladies, gentlemen
  • Terms of endearment: sweetheart, love, darling
  • Titles: nurse, doctor, councillor
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What is a negative participle?

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  • Using not before the participle verb
  • NOT knowing the baby slept, she phoned
  • NOT seeing the bus, she stepped into the road
  • NOT saying anything, she left
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What is a past participle?

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  • Adding ed or d to the root of the verb
  • jumped, excited
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What are hypernyms?

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  • A word with a broad meaning constituting a category
  • Colour, dog
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What is ellipsis?

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When a word has been deleted from a sentence

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What are oxymorons?

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  • When 2 words that oppose each other are paired together
  • Delicious poison
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What is a metaphor?

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  • A figure of speech that describes an object or action which isn’t true
  • Her eyes were diamonds
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What are fronted conjunctions?

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  • Conjunctions used at the front of a sentence

e.g. but/had

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