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Flashcards by Emma Madden, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Emma Madden
almost 11 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Subjunctive Mood | 'You can be silent' - something not actually occurring |
| Action Verbs | a verb that expresses action |
| Adjective Prepositional Phrase | Acting as an adjective; expressing which or what kind and modifying a noun/pronoun |
| Adverbial Nouns | Expresses amount, weight, e.g. 'two days' |
| Antecedent | 'The boy threw the football', 'he threw it' = boy is the antecedent of he |
| Correlative Conjunctions | Come in pairs, e.g. 'if/then', 'either/or' |
| Qualifiers | Adverbs that strengthen or weaken the words they modify |
| Minor Sentence | Used to create a spoken word feel, e.g. 'working all year round' |
| Syntactic Parallelism | repetition of sentence structure |
| Synthetic Personalisation | Using the second person directive pronoun 'you' in a text |
| Postpositive Adjective | An adjective at the end of the sentence, e.g. 'I enjoyed this weekend's summit immensely' |
| Attributive Adjective | An adjective that comes before the headword, e.g. 'the lovely girl' |
| Predicative Adjective | An adjective that comes after the headword, e.g. 'That girl who so lovely' |
| Nominal Adjective | Stands in place of a noun, e.g. 'the old' |
| Absolute Adjective | Does not belong to a larger construction, e.g. 'sad' |
| Adverbs | My Tom Fucks Dogs Fucking Cunt M= manner (delicately) T= time (early on) F= frequency (regularly) D=degree (partially) F=formation (lovingly) C=comment (perfectly) |
| Adverbial | How/when/where the verb was carried out |
| Meiosis | A figure of speech involving understatement |
| Demonstrative Pronoun | Pronouns used to differentiate between possibilities; 'that', 'those' |
| Evaluative Adjective | Implies judgement, e.g. 'dark' compared to 'gloomy' |
| Homonymic Pun | A play on words that look the same but aren't. E.g. 'being a mortician is a grave business' |
| Ellipsis | Omission of words (like a minor sentence) |
| Nominalisation | The turning of an action or event expressed as a verb into a noun |
| Triad | A pattern of three |
| Fricative | 'F', 'TH' |
| Tail | A word or phrase added onto the end of a sentence |
| Collocational Clash | When one item of a collocation is replaced with another to sound like the original. E.g. 'fish and pips' |
| Conjugation | Changing of verb endings, e.g. 'run' to 'running' |
| Copula Verb | A verb used to couple a subject to a complement |
| Complement | Adds information to a subject or object |
| Indefinite Sentence | When the beginning or end of a sentence isn't relevant, e.g. 'I ran' |
| Asynchronous Communication | When participants do not need to be present simultaneously, such as when emailing |
| Collocation | 'bread and butter', 'fish and chips', 'knife and fork' |
| Primary Verb | 'Do, have, be' |
| Hypernym | A category that words fit into, such as fish= herring, cod, fanny |
| Hyponym | Words within a hypernym's category (smaller that a hypernym) |
| Phrase | A headword+modifier, with no verbs |
| Prepositional Phrase | Shows the position of the nouns, or where the noun is going |
| Noun Phrase | A noun or pronoun as the headword, e.g. 'the long, sandy penis' |
| Verb Phrases | Main/auxiliary verb as the headword, e.g. 'I may go hopping' |
| Relative Clause | A subordinate clause that adds information to another clause element (like an adjective) |
| Gerund | A word which functions as a noun and always ends in 'ing' |
| Periphrase | Several words joined together to create a grammatical phrase, e.g. 'I do hope' (do is the particle of the phrase) |
| Prop-Word | Use of the word 'one' in place of a noun |
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