TWP Flashcards
grammar
formal study of the structure of language
* the study of sentence and word structure (syntax
and morphology), excluding vocabulary and
pronunciation.”
GRAMMAR
Types of Grammar: how people use their language,
informal
Descriptive
- formal use of grammar, academe
Prescriptive
everything that can see as subject
Noun
CHARACTERISTICS OF NOUNS: plural (-es), possessive (sometimes
called the genitive) (- ’s).
Inflections
: prefix and suffix, adjective
and verb can be noun by adding affixes.
Derivational Affixes
: before a verb, after articles (a, an, the),
demonstratives (this, that, those, these),
possessive (my, your).
Position
only marked in certain pairs of nouns
Gender
stress patterns
Pronounciation
TYPES OF NOUNS:always begins with capital letters
Proper Noun
common for many things,
person, or places
Common Noun
cannot be seen but is there,
refers to ideas, qualities, and conditions.
Abstract Noun
refers to tangible things.
Concrete Noun
cardinal numbers (called
counting numbers). However, number itself is
considered as cardinal adjective
Countable Noun
- refers measurement nouns
like pound, miles, kilogram (cannot be count)
Uncountable Noun
group of things, people, or
animals, etc
Collective Noun
two or three nouns appear
together/combine.
Compound Noun
used in place of a specific noun, substitute to a
noun.
Pronoun
TYPES OF PRONOUNS: subject of the verb in a
sentence, usually in the beginning
Subject Pronouns
the object or indirect object
in a sentence (receiver of action/verb), or after
the verb
Object Pronouns
- ownership/who (my, our,
your, her, his, their, mine, ours, yours, hers, his,
its, theirs)
Possesive Pronouns
uses “self/selves”
Reflexive Pronouns
They are used to make clear
what is being talked about in a sentence
Relative Pronouns
- normally indicate the
closeness of or distance from the speaker, either
literally or symbolically (this, these, that, and
those).
Demonstrative Pronouns
produce questions.
(what, which, who, whom, and whose)
Interrogative Pronouns
not known (anybody,
everybody, nobody, anyone, anyone, anyone, no
one, someone, anything, nothing, something)
Indefinite Pronouns
