Mr Mundy first half term Flashcards
Lexis
Refers to the entire vocabulary of a language. Within grammar, it involves the classification of word types.
Lexeme
Singular form of lexis. A lexeme might be , for example, the headword “play” as well as “played”,”playing”,”plays”.
Lexicon
A specific group of words, the vocabulary of a language or subject.
“No-hitter,” “go-ahead run,” and “Baltimore chop” are part of the baseball lexicon.
8 Parts of Speech / 8 Word Classes
Nouns
Pronouns
Adjectives
Verbs
Adverbs
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Articles
Articles
The definite article is “the”
The indefinite article is “a” or “an”
Direct Object and Indirect Object
Direct object is the word or phrase which receives the action of the verb: “to eat cake” cake is to direct object
Indirect object is the word or phrase which receives the direct object: “The man gave his wife a necklace.” “Necklace” is the direct object, and “wife” is the indirect object.
Subject
The subject of a sentence is what performs the action. It is what the sentence is about.
Subject compliment and Object compliment
A subject complement is a word or group of words that completes our idea of the subject of a sentence. It is usually a noun, pronoun or adjective: “he is my brother” subject is “he” and the complement is “is my brother”.
An object complement is a word or group of words that completes our idea of the object: “i can make him a better person” the direct object is “him” and the complement is “a better person”
Appositive and its antecedent
An appositive is a noun phrase that adds information to the noun/noun phrase before it (the antecedent).
Adjective noun
A noun which modifies another noun as an adjective would: “chicken soup” “chicken” is the adjective noun.
Sentence types
minor, simple, compound, complex
Connotation
Associations that come with a word
denotation
The literal meaning of a word
Dysphemism
Derogatory
Hypernyms and Hyponyms
Dog is a hypernym
Poodle is a hyponym
