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Lexis and semantics terminology Flashcards

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Evaluative adjectives

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Offer a judgement

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Comparative adjectives

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End in ‘-er’ or have ‘more’ infront

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Superlative adjectives

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Express highest degree of quality

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Attributive adjectives

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Come before noun they modify

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Predictive adjectives

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Comes after noun with verb inbetween

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Post-postive adjective

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Comes immediately after a noun

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Dynamic adjective

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Physical action

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Static verb

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States or feelings

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Auxiliary verb

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helping verb (am/is/has)

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Denontic modal verb

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express certainty/compulsion

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Epistemic modal verb

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expresses possibility/choice

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Progressive verbs

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an action in process

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Perfective verbs

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action that is completed, comes with an auxiliary

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Progressive-perfect verb

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express a completed action as though it was still in progress (-ing + has/had)

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Adverb of manner

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how something is done

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Adverb of time

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when something happens/frequency of something

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Adverb of degree

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a.k.a intensifiers

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Adverb of place

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where something happens

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Co-ordinating conjunction

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connect words/clauses that have equal status

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Subordinating conjunction

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connect words/clauses that have unequal status

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Demonstrative determiner

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that/this/these/those

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Demonstrative pronoun

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my/your (before noun)

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Definite determiner

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the

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Indefinite determiner

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a

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Personal pronoun

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takes the place of a person

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first person

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I

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second person

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you

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third person

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he/she/they

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reflexive pronoun

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self added

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reciprocal pronoun

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each other/ one another

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Interrogative pronoun

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who/what/why

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Relative pronoun

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follow the noun they refer to

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Modifier

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a word that modifies a sentence/ adds to the sense of the head noun

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neologisms

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new words

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compound words

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new word created by joining two existing words together

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Semantic field

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words not connected to the main subject

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Lexical field

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words connected to the main subject

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collocations

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words that go together

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meiosis

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deliberate understatement

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synecdoche

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a part stands in for a whole/ vice versa

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metonymy

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one thing represents something else

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