Linguistic Methods Flashcards
GASPM
Genre
Audience
Subject
Purpose
Mode
Four major word classes
Noun
Verb
Adjective
Adverb
What is a determiner
Adds clarity to nouns
“The, my, some”
Preposition
Shows places or time (on, in, between, above)
Proper noun
Places or people
Abstract noun
States, feelings, concepts with no physical existence, (happiness, fear)
Concrete
Objects that can be physically touched
Countable/ non countable
Can be pluralised (plates)
Can’t be pluralised (sheep)
Material verb
Show actions or events (hit, run)
Relational verbs
Identifies properties or shows states of being (be, appear)
Mental verbs
Shows internal processes (think, believe, wish)
Verbal verb
External processes of communication through speech (shout, scream)
Base adjectives/adverbs
Simply modified another word (Big, good, carefully)
Comparative adjective
Comparing two instances (bigger, smaller, more)
Superlative adjective
A form used to describe more than two instances, identifying best (biggest, smallest, worst)
Personal pronoun
People differentiated in terms of person (I, you, she, they,)
Indefinite pronoun
Points reader toward a person, object or idea that is non-specific (someone, anybody, everything)
Demonstrative pronoun
Points reader towards object or person with distance (this, these, that)
Determiner articles
Definite or indefinite article
Possessive determiner
Shows owner ship (my, your)
Quantifying determiner
Specific or non specific quantities (one two)
(Some, any)
Coordinating conjunction
Links phrases and clauses when they are equal (and, but)
Subordinating conjunction
Links dependent clauses together (because, although)
Primary auxiliary verb
(Be, do, have)
Modal auxiliary verbs
Express necessity or possibility (must, shall, could)
Epistemic modality
Degrees of possibility related to opinions (might, will)
Deontic modality
Demonstrates permissions or obligations (should, can)
Boulomaic modality
What is possible given producers desires (you must leave)
Head word
A key word class within the phrase that gives the phrase bigger identity
