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ADJECTIVE: Evaluative

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Offer judgement on a noun.
‘ That work is awful!’ ((Awful))

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ADJECTIVE: Comparative

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Make comparisons
‘ You are prettier/more beautiful ‘ ((Prettier/more beautiful))

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ADJECTIVE: Superlative

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Highest degree of quality
‘ He’s the smartest/most intelligent ‘ ((Smartest/most intelligent))

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ADJECTIVE: Attributive

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Before the nouns they modify.
‘ Is there an available room? ‘

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ADJECTIVE: Predicative

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After a noun with a verb between.
‘ Do you know if this room is available? ‘

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ADJECTIVE: Post-positive adjectives

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Immediatley after the noun.
‘ Is this room available? ‘

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ADVERB: Adverb of manner

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Describe the way in which an action is done
‘ He ran passionately ‘

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ADVERB: Adverb of time

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Tells when something is done or if frequent.
‘ I’ll go to the gym tomorrow/I go to the gym regularly’

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ADVERB: Particularizing adverb/Adverb of degree

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Focus attention to what follows.
‘ I am particularly fond of…/It was mostly… ‘

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ADVERB: Exclusive adverb

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Excludes other possibilities.
‘ You only love yourself ‘

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ADVERB: Adverbs of place

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Says where something happens.
‘ I left my keys somewhere ‘

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ADVERB: Addative adverb

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Adds to something
‘ I like tea - my friend does too ‘

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CONJUNCTIONS: Coordinating and Subordinating

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Coordinating - Connects two clauses
‘ I like tea and coffee! ‘
Subordinating - Connects unequally
‘ I like tea, although I prefer coffee ‘

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DETERMINERS: Demonstrative determiners

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Before a noun to indicate which one.
‘ Look at that painting ‘

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DETERMINERS: Possessive determiners

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Show who owns a noun.
‘ That’s my drink! ‘

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DETERMINERS: Definite/Indefinite article

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Definite - The
Indefinite - A

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NOUNS: Concrete

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Physically exists. Eg. Book

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NOUNS: Abstract

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Ideas and emotions - not physical. E.g. Happiness

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NOUNS: Proper nouns

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Names of places. First letter is always capitalised. E.g. Egypt

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NOUNS: Collective

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Refer to a group. E.g. class

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PREPOSITIONS

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How a thing relates to another.
‘ See you after dinner ‘

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PRONOUNS: Personal

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Replaces a noun.
‘ I love ABBA, they are so cool! ‘

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PRONOUNS: Possessive

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Show ownership.
‘ This house is mine ‘

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PRONOUNS: Reflexive

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Refer to a previous noun.
‘ Suit yourself. ‘

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PRONOUNS: Reciprocal

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Reciprocity.
Each other and One another

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PRONOUNS: Demonstrative

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Indicate who is referred to.
‘ That’s it! ‘ / ‘ This is what I’m talking about ‘

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PRONOUNS: Indefinite

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Uncertain.
‘ Somebody stole my bag! ‘

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PRONOUNS: Interrogative

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Start of interrogative statements.
‘ Who are you? ‘

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PRONOUNS: Relative pronouns

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Follow after a noun.
‘ Poole is the town that I live in. “

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VERBS: Dynamic verbs

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An action
‘I punched him.’

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VERBS: Stative verbs

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States or feelings
‘ I am annoyed. ‘ / ‘ I want that ‘

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VERBS: Progressive verbs

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An action in process (-ing verbs)
‘ He’s coming around the corner ‘

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VERBS: Perfective verbs

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An action that has happened.
‘ He has hit me ‘

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VERBS: Progressive-perfective verbs

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Combination of perfective and progressive.
‘ He had been hitting me ‘

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VERBS: Modal verbs

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Auxillery verbs for necessity or possibility
‘ I will do it. ‘

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PHRASES: Adjectival

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An adjective in a sentence. The head word will be an adjective.
‘ You are incredibly clever ‘

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PHRASES: Adverbial

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An adverb in a sentence. The head word will be an adverb.
‘ He left the meeting very quickly. ‘

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PHRASES: Noun phrase

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A noun in a sentence. The head word will be a noun.
‘ English language is the best A-level subject. ‘

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PHRASES: Verb phrase

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A verb in a sentence. The head word will be a verb.
‘ She ran quickly down the stairs. ‘

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CLAUSES: Main

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A complete sentence, must have a verb.
‘I like eating junk food’

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CLAUSES: Coordinate

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A main clause in the form of a compound sentence.
‘I like eating junk food and you do too. ‘

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