Section B: Language Flashcards
What are nouns?
A noun names a person, a place or a thing
What 4 nouns do we get?
Proper noun,common noun,collective noun and abstract noun
What is a proper noun?
*A proper noun names a specific person ,place or thing
*Proper nouns begin with a capital letter
*e.g.: Pretoria,James
What is a common noun?
*A common noun names a every day object and a person place or thing
*e.g.:table,apple
What is a collective noun?
*a Collective Noun names a collection or group of objects
*e.g.:a school of fish ,a forest of trees
What is a Abstract Noun?
An Abstract noun names ideas or qualities(you cannot put abstract nouns into a box
*e.g.:joy,peace,wish
What are pronouns?
Pronouns replace the noun it the sentence
Why ?
It replaces the noun so that you don’t have to keep repeating the noun
What are verb tenses
Present,past, future
How do you use present tense
I am dancing
How do you use past tense?
I was dancing
How do you use future tense?
I will be dancing
What is a verb?
A verb is a doing word
E.g.:run,jump,play,sit
(Can I ___)
What is a conjunction?
A conjunction joins sentences or phrases together
What are 3 types of conjunctions?
Coordinating, Subordinating,correlative
What is a coordinating conjunction?
It is used to connect words,phrases, clauses and sentences together.
*(For,and,not,but,or,yet,so)
•FANBOYS
What is a Subordinating conjunction?
A Subordinating conjunction is a word or phrase that links a dependent clause to an independent clause
•( if,since,as,when, although,while,after,before,until, because)
*I SAW A WABUB
What is a correlative conjunction?
A pair of words that join two clauses or groups of words to balance the sentence
What is a prefix?
A prefix is a part added to the beginning of a word that changes the words meaning
What is a suffix?
A suffix is a word part that is added to the beginning of a word that changes the words meaning
What is a root word
The core part of the word is called its roots .also called the stem
It is also a word that can stand on its own
What are synonyms?
Synonyms are words that are similar to eachother
What are antonyms?
Antonyms are words that are the complete opposite
What is an adjective?
Adjectives are describing words
*They describe the noun in the sentence
What is an adverb?
An adverb is a word that describes a verb
What are the 3 types of adverbs?
Adverb of time,place and manner
What is an adverb of time?
•An adverb of time describes a verb relating to the the time (or when) it is happy
E.g.she ran EARLY
What is an adverb of place?
•an adverb of time describes a verb relating to the location(or where) it is happening.
E.g.:she ran OUTDOORS
What is an adverb of manner?
•An adverb of manner describes the verb relating to the manner (or how) it is happening
E.g.:she ran Quickly
