Lexis Key Terms

Question 1

Lexis?

Answer 1

Vocabulary of the English Language

Question 2

Noun?

Answer 2

A noun is a word that names something, such as a person, place, thing, or idea

Question 3

Proper Noun?

Answer 3

A proper noun is a noun that serves as the name for a specific place, person, or thing

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Abstract Noun?

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A noun denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a object

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Concrete Noun?

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A noun that refers to a physical thing, person, or place

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Collective Noun?

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A noun that refers to a group e.g. animals, people

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Hypernym?

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A word with a broad meaning of a category e.g. flowers, furniture etc

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Hyponym?

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Words that are the specific examples of a general word e.g. roses, chairs etc

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Metonym?

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A word that substitutes another word in which it is closely associated with

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Verb?

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A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence

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Dynamic Verb?

Answer 11

A verb that shows continued or progressive action

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Stative Verb?

Answer 12

A verb that describes a state of being

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Adjective?

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A word that describes or defines a noun

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Superlative Adjective?

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Adjectives used to describe an object which is at the upper or lower limit of a quality e.g. tallest, smallest

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Comparative Adjective?

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An adjective used to compare differences between the two objects e.g. smaller, taller

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Adverb?

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A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective or verb

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Preposition?

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A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective and verb

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Determiner?

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A word that modifies, describes, or introduces a noun

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Conjunction?

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A conjunction is a part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses

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Co-ordinating Conjunction?

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A conjunction that connects words, phrases, and clauses that are coordinate

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Subordinating Conjunction?

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A word or phrase that links a dependent clause to an independent clause

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Pronoun?

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A pronoun is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun

Question 23

First Person Pronoun?

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Refer either to the person who said or wrote them e.g. ‘my’, ‘me’, ‘mine’, and ‘I’

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Second Person Pronoun?

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Refer to the listener or reader e.g. ‘you’, ‘your’ and ‘yours’

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Third Person Pronoun?

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Refer to the person being talked about e.g. ‘she’, ‘her’, ‘he’, ‘his’, ‘them’, ‘themselves’, ‘it’

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Personal Pronoun?

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A short word we use as a simple substitute for the proper name of a person e.g. ‘he’, ‘it’, ‘my’

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Possessive Pronoun?

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A short word indicating relationship of possession e.g. ‘his’, ‘hers’, ‘mine’

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Relative Pronoun?

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A pronoun that’s used to introduce a relative clause e.g. ‘which’, ‘that’, ‘whom’

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Definite Article?

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Used before a noun to indicate that the identity of the noun is known to the reader ‘the cat’

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Indefinite Article?

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An article that refers to a noun without specifying it e.g. ‘a cat’

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Expletive Phrase?

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A word or words that do not add meaning to a sentence and are often used as filler e.g. “there,” “here,” “it”

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Taboo?

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A social custom to avoid doing that activity or talking about that subject, because people find it embarrassing or offensive

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Colloquial Language?

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The linguistic style used for casual communication e.g. ‘y’all’ or ‘gonna’

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Contraction?

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A shortened form of a group of words ‘you’ve’ to ‘you have’

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Jargon?

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Special words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand e.g. doctor

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Anaphora?

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The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a series of phrases or sentences

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Deontic Modality?

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A kind of modality which has to do with what is necessary

Question 38

Epistemic Modality?

Answer 38

Possibility is something that may be true