LL1 - Lexis Open Word Classes

Question 1

Lexis

Answer 1

The vocabulary of a language (the technical term for words)

Question 2

Open word class

Answer 2

The overarching lexical category of word classes where new words can continually be added

Question 3

Noun

Answer 3

A word that refers to a person, place, thing, event…

Question 4

Count noun

Answer 4

A noun that can be preceded by a number and counted - “one book,three cows”

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Mass noun

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A noun that can’t be counted and doesn’t have a plural - “information,freedom”

Question 6

Proper noun

Answer 6

The Lexus which refers to names of people,placed or organisations - “cadburys, Bournemouth”

Question 7

Abstract noun

Answer 7

The Lexus which refers to states, feelings and concepts that do not have a physical existence - “freedom, love, hate”

Question 8

Concrete noun

Answer 8

The Lexus which refers to things with a physical existence - “toast”

Question 9

Collective noun

Answer 9

The Lexus which refers to groups of things, especially animals - “a flock of sheep”

Question 10

Hypernym

Answer 10

An overarching (category) noun which encompasses many other nouns - “animal, vegetable”

Question 11

Hyponym

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A noun with a narrower meaning which is part of a hyper bum (category member) - “cow, pig, pea, carrot”

Question 12

Metonym

Answer 12

Using a word or phrase which is part of something, to describe the whole thing - “number 10 = prime minister”

Question 13

Verb

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A word or phrase that describes an action, condition or function experience

Question 14

Verbal verb

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The Lexus which is linked to the process of making sounds - “shouted, whispered, hissed”

Question 15

Material verb

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The Lexis which refers to a physical action - “running, jumping”

Question 16

Mental verb

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The Lexus which shows internal processes - “thinking, wishing, believing”

Question 17

Relational verb

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The Lexus which describes states of being - “be, appear, seem”

Question 18

Dynamic verb

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The Lexus which describes actions we can take, or things that happen; they have a continuos form - “Chris kicks the ball; Chris paints”

Question 19

Stative verb

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The Lexus which describes states/conditions unlikely to change (possessions, feeling, perception, mental processes, identity); typically, they do not have a continuous form - “Chris HAS a car; Chris KNOWS a lot; Chris IS a doctor”

Question 20

Attributive adjective

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Adjectives placed before the head noun - “a dangerous animal”

Question 21

Predicative adjective

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Adjectives placed after the head noun - “the day was good”

Question 22

Demonstrative adjective

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Indicated exactly which noun the speaker means and is usually used within spoken language as it requires context - “these, those, this , that”

Question 23

Possessive adjective

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A word which is placed before a noun to show ownership - “‘my,your ,his , her, it’s, our, your, their”

Question 24

Temporal adverb

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A word or phrase which expresses when the verb happens - “tommorow ,today ,later ,now”

Question 25

Degree adverb

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A word which expresses the intensity of an adjective , adverb or verb (it shows the extent of something - we completely understand) - “too, enough, very, quite, extremely”

Question 26

Duration adverb

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A word which expresses how long the verb happens for - “forever, minutes”

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Frequency adverb

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A word which expresses how often the verb happens - “sometimes, daily”

Question 28

Manner adverb

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A word which expresses how the verb happens - “badly, greedily”

Question 29

Spatial adverb

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A word or phrase which expresses where the verb happens (these can sometimes be used as prepositions where they just immediately be followed by a noun) - “here, under here, there”

Question 30

Positive

Answer 30

The basic, form of an adjective or adverb whiteout any sense of comparison - “grumpy, fast”

Question 31

Comparative

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An adjective or an adverb which compares two things showing greater or lesser degree (usually ends in -er) - “grumpier, faster”

Question 32

Superlative

Answer 32

An adjective or an adverb which shows the greatest or least degree (usually ends in -est) - “grumpiest, fastest”