Parts of speech Flashcards
The association(s) of a word that comes from a person, culture or situation.
Connotation
A noun that refers to a group of people or things
A collective noun (the police, the government)
A noun that is not the name of a particular person, place or thing
A common noun (table, book)
A combination of 2 or more words, which are used as a single word
A compound noun (a flower shop, a headache)
A noun that has a singular and plural form
A countable noun (house, road)
A noun that does not have a plural form
An uncountable noun
A noun that describes more than one person, place or thing and can be regular or irregular
A plural noun (boys, women)
A noun that is the name of a person or place
A proper noun (Benjamin, London)
A word that replaces or refers to a noun or a noun phrase just mentioned
A pronoun
A word that refers to a noun and shows whether it’s near or far from the speaker (this, that, those, these)
A demonstrative pronoun
A word which replaces an object noun or an object noun phrase (him, her)
An object pronoun
Words, which are used instead of the name of a person (he, him)
A personal pronoun (he - subject pronoun, him - object pronoun)
Words that are used to replace a noun and show that something belongs to someone (mine, his)
A possessive pronoun
A word that is used when the object of a sentence refers to the same person or thing as the subject of the sentence (He cut himself.)
A reflexive pronoun
A word that introduces a relative clause (the book WHICH I’m reading…)
A relative pronoun
A single word or a group of words that act as the subject, object or complement in a sentence. Usually contains a noun and words before and after it that modify it (THE TALL GIRL ON THE RIGHT is MY SISTER.)
A noun phrase
A word that describes and gives more info about a noun or pronoun
Adjective
An adjective that compares two things (taller, bigger)
A comparative adjective
An adjective that shows if smth is near or far from the speaker (this, that)
A demonstrative adjective
What do -ing/-ed adjectives describe?
-ing adjectives describe things or people; -ed adjectives describe feelings
The smallest meaningful unit of a language
Morpheme (swims = swim+s = 2 morphemes)
An adjective that shows who smth belongs to (my, our)
A possessive adjective
An adjective that compares more than two things (the best, the highest)
A superlative adjective
An adjective/adverb that can be measured in degrees.
A gradable adjective/adverb