Language Terms/ Techniques: Flashcards
Modal verb:
an auxiliary verb that expresses necessity or possibility. English modal verbs include must, shall, will, should, would, can, could, may, and might.
Adverb:
a word or phrase that modifies the meaning of an adjective, verb, or other adverb, expressing manner, place, time, or degree (e.g. gently, here, now, very ). Some adverbs, for example sentence adverbs, can also be used to modify whole sentences.
Verb:
A doing word
Adjectives:
A word describing a noun
Noun:
a word used to identify any of a class of people
Common noun:
a noun denoting a class of objects or a concept as opposed to a particular individual
Proper noun:
a name used for an individual person, place, or organization, spelled with an initial capital letter, e.g. Jane, London, and Oxfam
Pronoun:
a word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g. I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g. she, it, this ).
Abstract noun:
a noun denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object, e.g. truth, danger, happiness
Concrete noun:
Concrete nouns are things that you can experience through your five senses: sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch
Collective noun:
a count noun that denotes a group of individuals (e.g. assembly, family, crew ).
Phrase:
A word or group of words that functions as a constituent in the syntax of a sentence
Clause:
A clause is a group of words that contains a verb (and usually other components too). A clause may form part of a sentence or it may be a complete sentence in itself
Alliteration:
Two words of sounds that have the same first letter put after each other in a sentance
Onomatopoeia:
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g. cuckoo, sizzle ).
