Metalanguage

Question 1

Active Voice

Answer 1

Follows a:
agent/ subject+verb+object
word order

Question 2

Elision

Answer 2

omission or loss of a sound(s)

Question 3

Addition/Insertion

Answer 3

sound segments appear where they previously didn’t

Question 4

assimilation

Answer 4

Sounds change depending on the company they keep/ process where sounds become similar to neighbors

Question 5

stem

Answer 5

a morpheme that can stand alone and represents the core meaning of a word

Question 6

prefix

Answer 6

a morpheme attached to the front of a word

Question 7

suffix

Answer 7

a morpheme that attaches to the end of a stem

Question 8

free morpheme

Answer 8

a unit of meaning that can stand alone as a word

Question 9

bound morpheme

Answer 9

a unit of meaning which must be attached to another morpheme to make a word

Question 10

inflectional morpheme

Answer 10

morphemes that change the grammar pf a word (number, tense)

Question 11

derivational morpheme

Answer 11

changes the meaning or word class of a word (-ing, -able)

Question 12

open class word

Answer 12

readily accept new words

nouns, verbs, adjective, adverbs

Question 13

closed class words

Answer 13

do not readily accept new words
(preposition, conjunction,
determiner, pronouns)

Question 14

non-finite verb

Answer 14

infinitive or participle

Question 15

finite verb

Answer 15

shows tense, person, number

Question 16

independent clause

Answer 16

can stand alone as a sentence

Question 17

subordinate/dependent clause

Answer 17

cannot stand alone

Question 18

simple sentence

Answer 18

Is made up of a main clause

Question 19

compound sentence

Answer 19

made up of 2 independent clauses which are joined by a coordinating conjunction or : , ;

Question 20

complex sentence

Answer 20

made up of a independent clause with 1 or more subordinate clauses joined with a subordinating conjunction or relative pronoun (e.g who)

Question 21

subject

Answer 21

the person or thing the sentences is about

Question 22

predicate

Answer 22

what is written about or said about the subject

Question 23

phrase

Answer 23

a group of related words

Question 24

clause

Answer 24

a group of related words containing a subject and predicate

Question 25

ellipses

Answer 25

deletion of grammatical items within a sentence

Question 26

fragment

Answer 26

phrase or clause which is not a complete grammatical sentence but is treated as if it were

Question 27

how to identify a dependent clause

Answer 27

subordinating conjuctions, relative clauses (who, that, which) and non-finite verbs

Question 28

transative verb

Answer 28

takes a direct object (We are eating food)

Question 29

Instransative verb

Answer 29

takes no object (My family are eating)

Question 30

copular verb

Answer 30

joins a complement or an adjective to the subject of the sentence (I am the teacher)

Question 31

passive voice

Answer 31

subject+auxilliary+’to be’+verb+agent

order

Question 32

agentless passive

Answer 32

subject+auxilliary+verb

Question 33

coordinating conjunction

Answer 33

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