Grammatical function Flashcards
Concrete noun
and object or something physical
Abstract noun
emotions feelings or concepts e.g love happiness or joy
Proper noun
Specific objects, people or things e.g Shakespeare and English as they always need a capital letter
Pronoun
takes the place of a noun and refers to people places or thing.
Noun Phrase
words surrounding a noun that could describe it for e.g ‘the old rust car’
Dynamic verbs
actions that can start and end for e.g to run and to shout
Stative verb
actions that are constant for e.g love and believe
Tense verb
show us when an action took place for e.g past, present and future
Adjectives
words that describe nouns or a pronoun
Adverbs
describes how,when or where something happens often ending in ‘ly’ for e.g ‘the dog growled menacingly’ or ‘the family could hardly move’
Determiners
specify exactly which nouns are being referred to
preposition
links a following noun, pronoun or noun phrase in the same sentence
conjunction
words that join clauses together
clause
a group of words centred around a verb
Subordinate clause
a group of words in a sentence that contain a subject and a verb but cannot function as a complete sentence on its own