LexicologyRevision Flashcards
nouns
A word that represents a person, thing, concept, place, quality, or an action
pronouns
A word that stands for and replaces a noun (or a noun phrase) in a sentence. Often because they have been referred to prior.
verbs
Words that show an action, occurrence, or state of being.
auxiliary verbs
Verbs that take a supportive role in a sentence, often forming, tense, mood and voices of other verbs.
modal verbs
A type of auxiliary verb that expresses ability, permission, likelihood, and obligation.
adjectives
Describe the qualities or states of being of nouns.
prepositions
Show the relationship between nouns and other words in a sentence. They show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships or introduce an object.
coordinating conjunctions
Link words, phrases and clauses together that are ‘equal’ to each other and can make sense on their own.
subordinating conjunctions
A word or phrase that links a dependent clause to an independent clause (one that does form a complete sentence) eg. after, unless etc.
determiners
Introduce noun phrases and function as modifiers.
interjections
Words or phrases that express a sudden or strong emotion or feeling. Occurs as an utterance on its own.
neologism
Term given to a newly formed word, expression or usage.
borrowings
A word from another language is adopted into another it may be changed in pronunciation and sometimes spelling.
Commonisation
the process by which a brand name or other proper noun becomes a common noun. This usually happens when a particular product name (a proper noun) is then generalised and used to mean any generic product of its kind.
nominalisation
Nouns that are created from adjectives or verbs.
