LEXIS Flashcards
Noun
The name for a thing (dog, politics, Susan, love).
Pronoun
A word that replaces a noun (he/she/it).
Verb
A doing word (think, believe, jump, cook, sleep).
Preposition
Spatial or physical relationships between sentence elements (on, in, to, under, near).
Conjunctions
Connects clauses or items in a list (and, or, but, because, therefore, so, yet etc).
Articles
Defines a noun;
Definite - the
Indefinite - a, an.
Adjectives
Modifies a thing (a noun or pronoun).
Adverbs
Modifies a verb or anything that’s not a thing.
Pronouns
Personal:
First person pronouns - I, me, mine, us, we
Second person pronouns - you, yours, thou
Third person pronouns - he, she, it, they
Demonstrative: that, those, these, this (as in ‘I like that’).
Reflexive: myself, yourself, himself, herself, themselves.
Possessive: mine, yours, theirs, his, hers NOT my, your, their, her, his..
Nouns
Common vs. Proper (man vs. Dave; hill vs. Pendle Hill)
Concrete vs. Abstract (dog vs. love; gas vs. thoughts)
Collective:
A school of fish
A flock of birds
A loveliness of ladybirds
A murder of crows
A crash of rhinos.
Verbs
Active vs. Stative (jump vs. think; sleep vs. believe).
Regular vs. Irregular (jump/jumped vs. buy/bought).
Auxiliary verbs:
I am going; When are we leaving…; Who is with me?
Auxiliary modal verbs: must, would, could, should, may, might, will, won’t.
I will go; you shall believe; He could die.
Adjective Types
Qualitative: brilliant
Comparative: more
Superlative: most,
Determiners: that
Of colour: blue
Numerical: one
Ordinal: first
Adverb Types
Of manner: quietly, aggressively
Of time: at quarter to three
Of frequency: always, never,
Of place: here, there
Initialism
An abbreviation consisting of initial letters pronounced separately (e.g. BBC )
Superlative
The highest attainable level or degree of something; nicest
