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Concrete noun

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Things you can touch/see

Table

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Proper noun

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Capitalised words

Andrew
Paris

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Abstract nouns

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Things don’t exist physically

Dreams

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Collective nouns

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Groups

Flock, family

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Superlative adjectives - what do you add?

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Add est

Hottest/biggest

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Comparative adjectives

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Add er

Hotter, bigger

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Personal pronouns

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Replace subject or object

I or HE would be changed from ME or HIM

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Possessive pronouns

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Shows possession

This is HERS

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Reflexive pronouns

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Object same as subject

SELF or SELVES

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Demonstrative pronouns

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Pointing in a direction

THIS THAT THESE THOSE

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Indefinite pronouns

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Not specific things

EVERYTHING, NO-ONE

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Relative pronouns

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Linking word, immediately after noun

WHO WHOM WHOSE WHICH THAT

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Interrogative pronouns

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Used when asking questions

WHO WHOSE WHICH WHAT

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Co-ordinating conjunction

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Used when parts of sentences are joined/equally important

AND BUT OR

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Subordinating conjunction

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Connect subordinate clause to main

BECAUSE ALTHOUGH UNLESS UNTIL

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Positional prepositions

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Positions of things

AT ON OPPOSITE

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Directional prepositions

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INTO PAST TO

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Time prepositions

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BEFORE AFTER DURING

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Indefinite article

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BEFORE NOUN

A AN

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Definite article

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BEFORE NOUN

THE

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Possessive determiner

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BEFORE NOUN

MY OUR YOUR HIS HER ITS THEIR

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Demonstrative determiner

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BEFORE NOUN

THIS THAT THESE THOSE

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Dynamic verb

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Relates to action

RUN HIT SPEAK

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Stative verb

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Expresses state of being/thought

BE SEEM KNOW

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Transitive verb

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Followed by a direct object

DONT SAY ‘the dog bit’ without a direct object

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Intransitive verb

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Cannot take a direct object

‘The dog barked’

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Register

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Variety of language appropriate to a purpose/text (informal or formal)

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Field

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General purpose of an act of communication

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Tenor

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Relationship between producer and reader

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Iconic graphology

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Direct picture showing its representation

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Symbolic graphology

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Have to think about the meaning

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Complement

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Follow STATIVE VERBS

My friend is SICK
My friend is a HAIRDRESSER

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Auxiliary verbs

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BE
HAVE
DO

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Modal auxiliary verbs

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Can could
Will would
Shall should 
Must ought 
May might
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Descriptive adjectives

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Gives detail of colour, size, shape, feel

SMALL WHITE

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Evaluative adjectives

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Makes a judgement or an opinion

GOOD BAD

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Emotive adjective

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Shows an intense feeling

HORRIBLE

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Noun modifiers

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2 nouns together

TABLECLOTH RAGDOLL

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Pre modifier

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Comes before the head word

The SANDY beach

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Post modifier

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Comes after the head word

The beach NEARBY

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Elision

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Loss of sound

COS LIVIN

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Collocation

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Words that go together

FISH AND CHIPS SALT AND PEPPER

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Assonance

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Same vowel with diff consonants
time/light

Same consonants with diff vowel
Mystery/moistery

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Sentence moods

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Imperative
Declarative
Interrogative
Exclamative

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Sentence types

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Minor - no verb
Simple - 1 main clause
Compound - 2 main clause/conjunct
Complex - main clause/1+ conjunct

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