Grammatical function Flashcards

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Concrete noun

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and object or something physical

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Abstract noun

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emotions feelings or concepts e.g love happiness or joy

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Proper noun

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Specific objects, people or things e.g Shakespeare and English as they always need a capital letter

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Pronoun

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takes the place of a noun and refers to people places or thing.

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Noun Phrase

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words surrounding a noun that could describe it for e.g ‘the old rust car’

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Dynamic verbs

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actions that can start and end for e.g to run and to shout

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Stative verb

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actions that are constant for e.g love and believe

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Tense verb

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show us when an action took place for e.g past, present and future

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Adjectives

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words that describe nouns or a pronoun

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Adverbs

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describes how,when or where something happens often ending in ‘ly’ for e.g ‘the dog growled menacingly’ or ‘the family could hardly move’

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Determiners

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specify exactly which nouns are being referred to

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preposition

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links a following noun, pronoun or noun phrase in the same sentence

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conjunction

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words that join clauses together

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clause

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a group of words centred around a verb

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Subordinate clause

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a group of words in a sentence that contain a subject and a verb but cannot function as a complete sentence on its own

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