Vocab Flashcards
Synthetic type of language
syntactic relations within sentences are expressed by inflection
Declension
the variation of the form of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, by which its grammatical case, number, and gender are identified.
Standard English
the form of the English language widely accepted as the usual correct form.
Phonetics
the study of human sounds
Phonology
Systematic organisation of speech sounds
a basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed and which can be combined with a vowel to form a syllable.
Consonant
the study of the form, meaning, and behaviour of words.
Lexicology
a doable activity like kick, want, paint, write, eat, clean, etc. It must have a direct object, something or someone who receives the action of the verb.
Transitive verb
a doable activity like kick, want, paint, write, eat, clean, etc. It will not have a direct object, something or someone who receives the action of the verb.
Intransitive verb
forms are marked by inflection and indicate person, number and tense
Finite
forms do not indicate person, number or tense.
non-finite
Active voice means that a sentence has a subject that acts upon its verb.
Active verb
Passive voice means that a subject is a recipient of a verb’s action.
Passive verb
an auxiliary verb that expresses necessity or possibility.
Modal verb
a word derived from a verb and used as an adjective, as in a “laughing faces”
Participle
