Lexical

Question 0

Attributive Adjective

Answer 0

An adjective before a noun

Question 1

Predictive Adjectives

Answer 1

An adjective that comes after a noun

Question 2

Dynamic Verb

Answer 2

A verb that describes a physical action

Question 3

Stative verb

Answer 3

A verb that’s describes a mental or emotional action

Question 4

Conjunctions

Answer 4

Words that join sentences together e.g and, therefore

Question 5

Prepositions

Answer 5

Words that define relationships between objects such as time and space

Question 6

Auxiliary verbs

Answer 6

A word that helps a main verb express it’s meaning

Question 7

Deontic modal auxiliary verb

Answer 7

Auxiliarys that’s express certainty

Question 8

Epistemic modal auxiliary

Answer 8

Modal Auxiliarys that express possibility

Question 9

Affixation

Answer 9

The addition of prefixes and suffixes

Question 10

Compounding

Answer 10

The addition of two words together e.g lapdancer

Question 11

Conversion

Answer 11

When a noun is turned into a verb

Question 12

Initialism

Answer 12

Shortening a phrase to the first letters and saying them separately e.g AQA

Question 13

Acronym

Answer 13

Shortening a phrase to letter and pronouncing it as a word e.g LOL

Question 14

Blend

Answer 14

When two words are mixed into one new one e.g motel

Question 15

Eponym

Answer 15

A word derived from a name

Question 16

Back formation

Answer 16

When a verb derives from a noun

Question 17

Borrowing

Answer 17

When a word is taken from another language

Question 18

Abbreviation

Answer 18

When a word is shortened e.g the met office / the meteorologist office

Question 19

Neologism

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When a new word is coined

Question 20

Archaism

Answer 20

When a word is no longer used or becomes obsolete

Question 21

Morpheme

Answer 21

The smallest recognisable unit of a word

Question 22

Informalisation

Answer 22

The theory that modern speech is less formal