Word classes/Techniques Flashcards
ADJECTIVE: Evaluative
Offer judgement on a noun.
‘ That work is awful!’ ((Awful))
ADJECTIVE: Comparative
Make comparisons
‘ You are prettier/more beautiful ‘ ((Prettier/more beautiful))
ADJECTIVE: Superlative
Highest degree of quality
‘ He’s the smartest/most intelligent ‘ ((Smartest/most intelligent))
ADJECTIVE: Attributive
Before the nouns they modify.
‘ Is there an available room? ‘
ADJECTIVE: Predicative
After a noun with a verb between.
‘ Do you know if this room is available? ‘
ADJECTIVE: Post-positive adjectives
Immediatley after the noun.
‘ Is this room available? ‘
ADVERB: Adverb of manner
Describe the way in which an action is done
‘ He ran passionately ‘
ADVERB: Adverb of time
Tells when something is done or if frequent.
‘ I’ll go to the gym tomorrow/I go to the gym regularly’
ADVERB: Particularizing adverb/Adverb of degree
Focus attention to what follows.
‘ I am particularly fond of…/It was mostly… ‘
ADVERB: Exclusive adverb
Excludes other possibilities.
‘ You only love yourself ‘
ADVERB: Adverbs of place
Says where something happens.
‘ I left my keys somewhere ‘
ADVERB: Addative adverb
Adds to something
‘ I like tea - my friend does too ‘
CONJUNCTIONS: Coordinating and Subordinating
Coordinating - Connects two clauses
‘ I like tea and coffee! ‘
Subordinating - Connects unequally
‘ I like tea, although I prefer coffee ‘
DETERMINERS: Demonstrative determiners
Before a noun to indicate which one.
‘ Look at that painting ‘
DETERMINERS: Possessive determiners
Show who owns a noun.
‘ That’s my drink! ‘
DETERMINERS: Definite/Indefinite article
Definite - The
Indefinite - A
NOUNS: Concrete
Physically exists. Eg. Book
NOUNS: Abstract
Ideas and emotions - not physical. E.g. Happiness
NOUNS: Proper nouns
Names of places. First letter is always capitalised. E.g. Egypt
NOUNS: Collective
Refer to a group. E.g. class
PREPOSITIONS
How a thing relates to another.
‘ See you after dinner ‘
PRONOUNS: Personal
Replaces a noun.
‘ I love ABBA, they are so cool! ‘
PRONOUNS: Possessive
Show ownership.
‘ This house is mine ‘
PRONOUNS: Reflexive
Refer to a previous noun.
‘ Suit yourself. ‘
PRONOUNS: Reciprocal
Reciprocity.
Each other and One another
PRONOUNS: Demonstrative
Indicate who is referred to.
‘ That’s it! ‘ / ‘ This is what I’m talking about ‘
PRONOUNS: Indefinite
Uncertain.
‘ Somebody stole my bag! ‘
PRONOUNS: Interrogative
Start of interrogative statements.
‘ Who are you? ‘
PRONOUNS: Relative pronouns
Follow after a noun.
‘ Poole is the town that I live in. “
VERBS: Dynamic verbs
An action
‘I punched him.’
VERBS: Stative verbs
States or feelings
‘ I am annoyed. ‘ / ‘ I want that ‘
VERBS: Progressive verbs
An action in process (-ing verbs)
‘ He’s coming around the corner ‘
VERBS: Perfective verbs
An action that has happened.
‘ He has hit me ‘
VERBS: Progressive-perfective verbs
Combination of perfective and progressive.
‘ He had been hitting me ‘
VERBS: Modal verbs
Auxillery verbs for necessity or possibility
‘ I will do it. ‘
PHRASES: Adjectival
An adjective in a sentence. The head word will be an adjective.
‘ You are incredibly clever ‘
PHRASES: Adverbial
An adverb in a sentence. The head word will be an adverb.
‘ He left the meeting very quickly. ‘
PHRASES: Noun phrase
A noun in a sentence. The head word will be a noun.
‘ English language is the best A-level subject. ‘
PHRASES: Verb phrase
A verb in a sentence. The head word will be a verb.
‘ She ran quickly down the stairs. ‘
CLAUSES: Main
A complete sentence, must have a verb.
‘I like eating junk food’
CLAUSES: Coordinate
A main clause in the form of a compound sentence.
‘I like eating junk food and you do too. ‘
