Structure in English Flashcards

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Use to state precisely the meaning of words, term or etc. It is use to describe the nature, properties, or essential qualities

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Definition

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2
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It is the ideas/requirements on which a judgement, evaluation, or selection is biased.

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Criteria

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3
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It is formed using sounds and letters

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Words

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4
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It is also known as stock knowledge

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Vocabulary

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5
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It is called the “kaalaman” or mastery

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Proficiency

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6
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It is the fundamental aspects of linguistics that explores how new words are created within a new language

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Word Formation

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7
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It is formed with a process

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Words

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8
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Tends to add affixation, prefix, suffix, inffix

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Derivation

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9
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Combining 2 words, but with distinct meaning

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Compounding

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10
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Compounding has 2 types what is it?

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Open compound

Close compound

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11
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Changing grammatical function of a word without adding any affixes

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Conversion

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12
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What kind of word formation is this?

ex.

google (n) ————> to Google (v)

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Conversion

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13
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Creating a new word from the 1st letters of a phrase

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Acronym

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14
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What kind of word formation is this?

ex.

NASA (National Astronomics and Space Administration)

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Acronym

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15
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Creating new words for the 1st letters of a phrase, but each letters are pronounced separately

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Initialism

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16
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What kind of word formation is this?

ex. USA ( United States of America )

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Initialism

17
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Adapting words form other language

ex.

Kindergarten ——>borrowed from Spanish

Yaya——->Philippines–>borrowed by other country

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Borrowing

18
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Imitating sounds from nature

ex.
Animal sounds

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Onomatopea

19
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Repeating words

ex.
byebye, nightnight

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Reduplication

20
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Words created for specific occasion or purpose and not intended for general

ex.
slurpee, fantabulous

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Nounce words

21
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Words created by mistake or misunderstanding

ex.
Wrong spelling, mispronunciation

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Error

22
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Creating new words entirely

ex.
blog, google, selfie

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Coinage/ coining

23
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Words derived from a name of a person/place

ex.
Sandwich ( Earl of Sandwich)

Boycott ( Captain Charles Boycott)

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Eponym

24
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Cutting a part of a word

ex.

flue ( influenza)

inc ( incorporation)

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Clipping

25
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It is the building blocks of a language, it identifies the name of something

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Nouns

26
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There are 4 types of Nouns ?

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Common nouns

Proper nouns

Concrete nouns

Abstract nouns

27
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It represents general ideas of things

ex.
students, teachers, nations, county

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Common nouns

28
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Specific names of things, it’s starts with a capital letter.

ex.
Google, EDC, Mona Lisa, Titanic

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Proper nouns

29
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Cemented, or can be perceive by our senses. Things that is “tangible”

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Concrete nouns

30
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Refers to the ideas, feelings that cannot be perceive by our senses .

“Intangible” concepts

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Abstract nouns

31
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It is the combination of 2 nouns or adjective + noun

ex. rain + bow = rainbow

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Compound nouns

32
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2 separated words but one meaning only

ex.

ice cream

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Open or space

33
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It is the idea of hypening the words

ex.

well -being, mother in-law

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Hyphenated

34
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Words are joined together

ex. Superman

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closed or solid