Terminology - Grammar And Syntax

Question 1

Units

Answer 1

Words

Question 2

Tenses

Answer 2

All formed by conjugating the verbs in a sentence (conjugation is the change that takes place in a verb to express tense,moo, personal or so on)
There are two verb tenses past and present

Question 3

Simple present tense

Answer 3

I wash the car

Question 4

Present progressive

Answer 4

I am washing the car

Question 5

Present perfect

Answer 5

I have washed the car

Question 6

Present perfect progressive

Answer 6

I have been washing the car

Question 7

Simple past

Answer 7

I washed the car

Question 8

Past progressive

Answer 8

I was washing the car

Question 9

Past perfect

Answer 9

I had washed the car

Question 10

Past perfect progressive

Answer 10

I had been washing the car

Question 11

Active voice

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Expresses action of the verb, directly linking it to the person or thing carrying out the action

Question 12

Passive voice

Answer 12

Changes focus of sentence by reodering elements within it

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Declaratives

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Statements that give information

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Imperatives

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Give orders, instructions, advise or direction

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Interrogatives

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Ask questions

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Exclamatives

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Expressive function convey force and end in an exclamation mark

Question 17

minor sentences

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Complete and meaningful statements that don’t have a subject and verb combination e.g. be quiet

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Simple sentence

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Must have a subject and a verb

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Compound

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Two entirely meaningful sentences that are joined by a conjunction

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Complex

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A sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses

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Compound complex

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A sentence with 2 or more independent clauses in, and at least 1 subordinate clause

Question 22

Main clause

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Also known as a simple sentence

Question 23

Coordinate clause

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These occur in a sentence where there are two or more independent clauses - they’re joined by coordinating conjunction such as an but or so

Question 24

Subordinate clause

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Depends on a main clause for its meaning - together with a man clause it forms part of a complex sentence

Question 25

Relative clause

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Is one connected to a main clause by a word such as which, that, where, who

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Syndetic listing

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Has one ‘and’ or other conjunction at the end

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Asyndetic listing

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Has no conjunction in at all

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Poly-syndetic listing

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Has a conjunction between every word

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Parrallelism

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When one clause corresponds with another so the sentence structures correspond with one another
‘He have me a dog and he have me a cat’

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Anaphora

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Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of sucessive clauses

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Epistrophe

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Opposite of anaphora - repetition at end of word

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Symploce

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Combination of anaphora and epistrophe - religion of phrases at the start and end of clauses

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Hypophora

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Asking a question then answering it

Question 34

Chiasmus

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Reversing or inverting the words of one clause in the next

Question 35

Anadiplosis

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Repeating the last word of one clause in the next one