Morphology PoS Flashcards
What are Auxiliary verbs
Helper verbs:
* Am, is, are, was, were, will, have, has, had, may, might, can, could, shall, should, must, ought to, would, do, does
What are Personal Pronouns
- First-person: I, me, mine, we, us, ours
- Second person: you, yours
- Third person: she, her, hers, he, him, his, it, its, they, them, theirs
What are Interrogative Pronouns
Question Words:
* Who, Whom, Whose, What, Which
What are Relative Pronouns
Preceded by noun phrase and substitue noun phrases
* Amanda’s a doctor who specializes in gerontology.
* The show that won the most awards was 60 Minutes.
* She’s a licensed masseuse, which I am not
* who, whom, whose, where, when, why, that, which and how.
What are Demonstrative Pronouns
Things that are near or far:
* This, These, That, Those
Indefinite Pronouns
Thing/People who can’T be identified:
* all, any, anyone, anything, each, everybody, everyone, everything, few, many, nobody, none, one, several, some, somebody, and someone.
Whats the difference between attributive and predicative adjectives?
Attributive adjective: comes before the noun
* the cute cat
Predicative adjective: comes after linking verb (be or seem)
* the cat is cute
What are Adverbs
When
* now, then, often, soon
Where
* here, there
How
* quickly, suddenly, fiercely
What are definite and indefinite determiners
Definite: the
Indefinite: A
What are demostrative determiners
This book, that Ipad, These shoes, Those Kids
(carefull not to mix them up with the very similar pronouns)
What are possessive determiners
my, our, your, her, his, its, their
(dont mix up with pronouns)
What are interrogativ determiners
Which, kind, what time, whose pizza
Whats the difference between a simple and a complex preposition
Simple preps: one word
Complex: sever words
What are coordinating conjunctions
For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
What are subordinating conjuctions
one clause is dependent on the other
* after, although, as, as if, because, before, depsite
