Term Quiz: Grammar

Question 1

What is the definite article?

Answer 1

The

Question 2

What are the indefinite articles?

Answer 2

A, an

Question 3

What are the 4 types of nouns

Answer 3

• Proper: specific person/place/object (e.g England)
• Concrete: can be physically touched (e.g table)
• Abstract: can’t be physically touched, usually felt (e.g. love)
• Collective: groups (e.g herd, gang)

Question 4

What are the 5 types of verb?

Answer 4

• Main: Haven’t been inflected, usually have “to” before them (e.g. to run)
• Phrasal: two-word verbs, usually determined by preposition (e.g. shut up, shut down)
• Copular: express states of existence (e.g. to be, to become, to turn)
• Strong: don’t follow regular inflection patterns (e.g. write, wrote, written)
• Weak: follow regular inflection patterns (e.g, jump, jumped, jumping)

Question 5

What are the 5 verb inflections?

Answer 5

• Infinitive: to + verb
• Present participle: “ing”
• 3rd person singular present: E.g. she thinks, he wants
• Past tense: verb + ed
• Past participle: e.g. has broken, have found

Question 6

What are the 2 auxiliary verbs?

Answer 6

• Main auxiliary verb: Verbs that can be auxiliary verbs and main verbs (e.g. be, do and have)
• Modal auxiliary verb: express probability (E.g. : Can, could, would, will, may, might, must, shall and should )

Question 7

What are the 6 types of adjective?

Answer 7

• Attributive: comes before the noun
• Complement: comes after the noun
• Comparative: ends in er or has “more” as a prefix
• Superlative: ends in “est”
• Participle: ends in “ing”
• Enumerative: refers to the numerical amount of the noun

Question 8

What can adverbs express?

Answer 8

Time, place, manner and degree

Question 9

What are the 5 types of pronouns?

Answer 9

• Personal subject: replaces the subject
• Personal object: replaces the object
• Possessive: expresses ownership
• Reflexive: ends in “self” or “selves” (e.g. ourselves, myself)
• Demonstrative: points at something (this, that, these, those)

Question 10

What are determiners?

Answer 10

Same as pronouns but they don’t replace the noun (only possessive and demonstrative)

Question 11

What are prepositions?

Answer 11

Words that refer to where something happened

Question 12

What are the two types of conjunctions?

Answer 12

• Co-ordinating: and, but, or
• Subordinating: if, because, so

Question 13

What are phrases?

Answer 13

Groups of words that do the job of a word class (noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, appositional)

Question 14

What are the job roles of words (SVOCA)

Answer 14

• Subject: completes the action
• Verb: an action
• Object: action is completed to it
• Complement: something that the subject is being
• Adverbial: time, place, manner, degree

Question 15

What are the 6 types of clauses?

Answer 15

• Main: makes sense on its own
• Co-ordinate: and/but/or
• Subordinate: if/because/so
• Infinitive: to + verb
• Participle: “ing”
• Adverbial: time, place, manner, degree

Question 16

What are the 6 voices?

Answer 16

• 1st (Me, I)
• 2nd (you)
• 3rd (he, she they)
• Plural
• Parenthetical: - - , , ()

Question 17

What are the 3 sentence types?

Answer 17

• Simple sentence: Contains only one clause
• Compound sentence: Contains a coordinate clause (and, but, or)
• Complex sentence: Contains a subordinate clause (if, because, so)

Question 18

What are the 3 moods?

Answer 18

• Declarative: statement
• Imperative: command
• Interrogative: question

Question 19

What are the 3 types of lists?

Answer 19

• Syndetic: 1 and/or
• Asyndetic: no and/or
• Polysyndetic: 2+ and/or

Question 20

What are the 2 cases?

Answer 20

• Vocative: addressing someone directly. (e.g. Ryan come upstairs.)
• Genitive: addressing someone indirectly using their name. (e.g. That car is Ryan’s.)

Question 21

What is passive voice?

Answer 21

The object is at the start and the subject is at the end. (e.g. The apple was eaten.)

It can be tested by adding “by zombies” to the end. E.g. The apple was eaten by zombies

Question 22

What are the 3 semantics? (ation)

Answer 22

• Denotation: the literal definition of a word
• Connotation: the associated meaning of a word
• Collocation: words that automatically go together (e.g. mini + cooper)

Question 23

What are the 5 registers?

Answer 23

• Frozen: Old-fashioned, typically ritualised
• Formal: the way you would talk to strangers in professional contexts
• Informal: the way you would talk to strangers when being friendly
• Demotic: the way you talk to friends/family (slang)
• Intimate: the way you talk to partners/babies/pets