Grammatical Features Flashcards
What is action verb?
An action verb describes an action undertaken. ie. Run, Jump, Eat, Think.
What is a transitive verb?
A transitive verb needs a direct object to implement an action. ie. He kicked the ball.
What is an intransitive verb?
An intransitive verb does not need a direct object to implement the action. ie. The baby smiled.
What is a linking verb?
Linking verbs do not express an action, instead they connect the subject to additional information. ie. Is, Are, Seem, Feel.
What is an adverb?
An adverb is a word describing or modifying how an action is carried out in relation to time, place, manner, degree, circumstance, etc. Adverbs may describe verbs, adjectives or other adverbs.
What is tense?
Tense is a grammatical category denoting time marked by a verb within clauses. ie. Has is present tense in ‘Sarah has a headache.’ While Past tense Had ‘Sarah had a headache.’ Locates it in past time.
What are prepositions?
Prepositions typically describe the relationship between words in a sentence, indicating space (for example, ‘below’, ‘in’, ‘on’, ‘to’, ‘under’. ‘She sat on the table.’)
time (for example, ‘after’, ‘before’, ‘since’. ‘Í will go to the beach after lunch.’)
those that do not relate to space and time (for example, ‘of’, ‘besides’, ‘except’, ‘despite’, ’He ate all the beans except the purple ones’).
What are articles?
Articles are used preceding nouns and are used to indicate if the subject is definite (specific) or indefinite (unspecific.) (The, A, An)
What are clauses?
A clause contains at least one relationship between a noun and a verb and can be independent (can be a sentence on its own) or dependent (needs and independent clause to form a sentence).
What are prefixes?
Prefixes are a meaningful element (morpheme) added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning (for example, ‘un’ to ‘happy’ to make ‘unhappy’).
What are adjectives?
A word class that describes, identifies or quantifies a noun or a pronoun.
Different types of adjectives include:
number or quantity adjectives (for example, ‘twelve’, ‘several’)
possessive adjectives (for example, ‘my’, ‘his’)
descriptive adjectives (for example, ‘beautiful’, ‘ancient’)
comparative adjectives (for example, ‘shorter,’ ‘more difficult’)
classifying adjectives (for example, ‘wooden’ (box), ‘passenger’ (vehicle).
What are nouns?
Nouns are a person, place, thing or idea. Nouns may be common (not specific, ie. chair), proper (specific, ie. Sydney), collective (a group, ie. team), or pronouns (noun replacements, ie. she.)
