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
An adjective/adverb that cannot be measured in degrees.
An ungradable adjective/adverb
A word that describes or gives more info about how, when, where or to what degree smth is done (quickly, well)
Adverb
A word which describes an action, event or process (like, go)
Verb
A verb that is used with other verbs to make questions, negatives, tenses, etc.
An auxiliary verb (do, did, have)
The infinitive form of a verb without “to”
The base form of a verb (go, like)
The base form of a verb with “to”
The infinitive form
What’s the difference between regular and irregular verbs?
Irregular verbs have their own ways of forming the past simple and past participle. Regular verbs change their form by adding -ed in the past some and past participle.
A verb used with other verbs to show ideas such as ability or obligation or possibility (can, must, should, etc.).
A modal verb
A verb that is used in reported speech to report what someone has said (advise, tell, suggest)
A reporting verb
A verb that is made up of a verb and one or more particles (adverbs and/or prepositions), the meaning is not the same as the meaning of the individual verbs and particles that make it.
A multiword verb (get on)
A type of multiword verb which is made up of a verb + an adverb particle (look after, get off)
A phrasal verb
A word or phrase used with a noun to show an amount (a few, much, a lot)
Quantifier
A word used before a noun, pronoun, gerund to connect it to another word (in, on)
Prepositions
What is a “dependent preposition”?
They are particular prepositions that follow some verbs, nouns and adjectives (depend on, a book by, interested in)
A word that is used to connect words, phrases, clauses or sentences (but, because)
A conjunction/connector
Describe the two kinds of conjunctions.
Co-ordinating conjunctions link two main clauses or two other grammatical units which have the same grammatical status (and, but). Subordinating conjunctions link a main clause with a subordinate clause (though, while, because)
