Karteikarten
Grammar
Karten in diesem Stapel (44)
- 1Subjunctive Mood'You can be silent' - something not actually occurring
- 2Action Verbsa verb that expresses action
- 3Adjective Prepositional PhraseActing as an adjective; expressing which or what kind and modifying a noun/pronoun
- 4Adverbial NounsExpresses amount, weight, e.g. 'two days'
- 5Antecedent'The boy threw the football', 'he threw it' = boy is the antecedent of he
- 6Correlative ConjunctionsCome in pairs, e.g. 'if/then', 'either/or'
- 7QualifiersAdverbs that strengthen or weaken the words they modify
- 8Minor SentenceUsed to create a spoken word feel, e.g. 'working all year round'
- 9Syntactic Parallelismrepetition of sentence structure
- 10Synthetic PersonalisationUsing the second person directive pronoun 'you' in a text
- 11Postpositive AdjectiveAn adjective at the end of the sentence, e.g. 'I enjoyed this weekend's summit immensely'
- 12Attributive AdjectiveAn adjective that comes before the headword, e.g. 'the lovely girl'
- 13Predicative AdjectiveAn adjective that comes after the headword, e.g. 'That girl who so lovely'
- 14Nominal AdjectiveStands in place of a noun, e.g. 'the old'
- 15Absolute AdjectiveDoes not belong to a larger construction, e.g. 'sad'
- 16AdverbsMy Tom Fucks Dogs Fucking Cunt
M= manner (delicately)
T= time (early on)
F= frequency (regularly)
D=degree (partially)
F=formation (lovingly)
C=comment (perfectly) - 17AdverbialHow/when/where the verb was carried out
- 18MeiosisA figure of speech involving understatement
- 19Demonstrative PronounPronouns used to differentiate between possibilities; 'that', 'those'
- 20Evaluative AdjectiveImplies judgement, e.g. 'dark' compared to 'gloomy'
- 21Homonymic PunA play on words that look the same but aren't. E.g. 'being a mortician is a grave business'
- 22EllipsisOmission of words (like a minor sentence)
- 23NominalisationThe turning of an action or event expressed as a verb into a noun
- 24TriadA pattern of three
- 25Fricative'F', 'TH'
- 26TailA word or phrase added onto the end of a sentence
- 27Collocational ClashWhen one item of a collocation is replaced with another to sound like the original. E.g. 'fish and pips'
- 28ConjugationChanging of verb endings, e.g. 'run' to 'running'
- 29Copula VerbA verb used to couple a subject to a complement
- 30ComplementAdds information to a subject or object
- 31Indefinite SentenceWhen the beginning or end of a sentence isn't relevant, e.g. 'I ran'
- 32Asynchronous CommunicationWhen participants do not need to be present simultaneously, such as when emailing
- 33Collocation'bread and butter', 'fish and chips', 'knife and fork'
- 34Primary Verb'Do, have, be'
- 35HypernymA category that words fit into, such as fish= herring, cod, fanny
- 36HyponymWords within a hypernym's category (smaller that a hypernym)
- 37PhraseA headword+modifier, with no verbs
- 38Prepositional PhraseShows the position of the nouns, or where the noun is going
- 39Noun PhraseA noun or pronoun as the headword, e.g. 'the long, sandy penis'
- 40Verb PhrasesMain/auxiliary verb as the headword, e.g. 'I may go hopping'
- 41Relative ClauseA subordinate clause that adds information to another clause element (like an adjective)
- 42GerundA word which functions as a noun and always ends in 'ing'
- 43PeriphraseSeveral words joined together to create a grammatical phrase, e.g. 'I do hope' (do is the particle of the phrase)
- 44Prop-WordUse of the word 'one' in place of a noun
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