TWP Flashcards

grammar

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formal study of the structure of language
* the study of sentence and word structure (syntax
and morphology), excluding vocabulary and
pronunciation.”

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GRAMMAR

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Types of Grammar: how people use their language,
informal

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Descriptive

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  • formal use of grammar, academe
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Prescriptive

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everything that can see as subject

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Noun

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CHARACTERISTICS OF NOUNS: plural (-es), possessive (sometimes
called the genitive) (- ’s).

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Inflections

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: prefix and suffix, adjective
and verb can be noun by adding affixes.

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Derivational Affixes

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: before a verb, after articles (a, an, the),
demonstratives (this, that, those, these),
possessive (my, your).

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Position

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8
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only marked in certain pairs of nouns

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Gender

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stress patterns

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Pronounciation

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TYPES OF NOUNS:always begins with capital letters

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Proper Noun

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common for many things,
person, or places

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Common Noun

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cannot be seen but is there,
refers to ideas, qualities, and conditions.

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Abstract Noun

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refers to tangible things.

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Concrete Noun

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cardinal numbers (called
counting numbers). However, number itself is
considered as cardinal adjective

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Countable Noun

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  • refers measurement nouns
    like pound, miles, kilogram (cannot be count)
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Uncountable Noun

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group of things, people, or
animals, etc

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Collective Noun

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two or three nouns appear
together/combine.

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Compound Noun

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used in place of a specific noun, substitute to a
noun.

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Pronoun

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TYPES OF PRONOUNS: subject of the verb in a
sentence, usually in the beginning

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Subject Pronouns

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the object or indirect object
in a sentence (receiver of action/verb), or after
the verb

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Object Pronouns

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  • ownership/who (my, our,
    your, her, his, their, mine, ours, yours, hers, his,
    its, theirs)
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Possesive Pronouns

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uses “self/selves”

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Reflexive Pronouns

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They are used to make clear
what is being talked about in a sentence

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Relative Pronouns

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  • normally indicate the
    closeness of or distance from the speaker, either
    literally or symbolically (this, these, that, and
    those).
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Demonstrative Pronouns

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produce questions.
(what, which, who, whom, and whose)

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Interrogative Pronouns

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not known (anybody,
everybody, nobody, anyone, anyone, anyone, no
one, someone, anything, nothing, something)

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Indefinite Pronouns