LANGUAGE Flashcards
Grammar
structures and systems that make up a language
Eight parts of speech that define grammar?
nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, conjunctions, prepositions, interjections
Syntax
study of how words are combined to create sentences
Mechanics
describes those rules that govern english: punctuation, capitlaization
nouns
people, place, thing
Pronouns
she/her/hers etc
possesive pronoun
indicate possesion (mine)
Reflexive/Intensive pronouns
“I made the dessert myself”
Relative pronouns
begin dependent clauses “who, whch, whose, whom, which”
Verbs
express action
Helping Verbs
indicate tense
verb tense : simple, continuos, perfect, perfect continuous.
simple (occuring once), continous (ongoing), perfect & perfect continous (occuring in relation to other actions)
infinitive
verb that has not been congugated
conjugation
changing spelling of verb tense/helping verb
Prepositions
Set up relationships in time/space
Prepositional Phrase
“I ran over the river and through the woods”
Conjunctions
Joins words into phrases and three types coordinating, correlative, and subordinating
Coordinating conjuctions
FANBOYS : For, As, Nor, But, Or , Yet, So
Subordinating conjucntions
join dependent clauses that cant stand on their own as sentences ex: because, as, as if, as though, after, as soon as
Interjections
wow! yikes! hey,
Syntax
phrases and clauses are made of subject predicate or both.
subject
what sentence is about
predicate
describe what the subject is doing
phrase
group of words that communicates an incomplete idea and lacks either subject or predicate or both