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| Question | Answer |
| Second Conditional | Used to talk about "impossible situations" e.g. If I could fly I would.... |
| Zero conditional | Used to describe something which is generally always true e.g. If I water this plant it will grow. |
| First conditional | Used to talk about future events which are likely to happen |
| A subject question | When the 'question word' is the subject of the sentence |
| Third conditional | Used to talk about 'impossible' conditions due to them being in the past and we can't change them. |
| Tense | the grammatical status of something |
| Aspect | a speakers perceptions e.g. continuous |
| Paradigms | a set of linguistic items that form mutually exclusive choices in particular syntactic roles |
| Linking word/ phrase | Used to show a relationship between ideas. To join two clauses |
| conjunctions | joining words, main role is to link two parts of a sentence |
| Auxiliary | verbs used with another verb to express aspect |
| Gerund | "-ing" participles which act like nouns e.g. The singing is really bad... |
| Question tags | The short questions at the end of a sentence. They normally occur in spoken speech and do not add much to the meaning. |
| A bare infinitive | The form of the verb without "to" |
| Function | A speakers intention behind their messages |
| Definite article | (the), used to refer to a specific one or something which has already been referred to. Can be used with countable singular/plural and uncountable nouns. |
| non-gradable adjectives | An adjective which does not have varying degrees to it. e.g. wooden or married, you cannot be a little wooden or very married |
| Lexical set | An associated group of words e.g. book, ruler, pen |
| A limiting adjective | Rather than describing a noun it defines it e.g. article adjectives |
| The passive form | It denotes a voice of verbs in which the subject undergoes the action of the verb |
| The active form | Refers to the type of verb form which requires a subject e.g. I BOUGHT a book |
| Preposition | A word which typically precedes a noun, a noun phrase or pronoun. It indicates placement usuually |
| Indefinite article | (a/an) It is not used for plural or uncountable nouns as it means "one" |
| A gradable adjective | They have a varying degree to them like cold/ frightened. You can be a little frightened or very cold |
| Mass nouns | (uncountable nouns) Refers to nouns which we cannot easily think of as consisting of separate items e.g. liquids. |
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