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- 1What's a sentece?A complete uning of meaning. It is the largest unit of grammatical organization within parts of the speech and grammatical classes are said to function.
- 2What's a clause?A clause is a group of words with its own subject and predicate with a finite verb included in a larger sentence. It makes complete sense.
- 3How many types of clauses are there?Main causes, and subordinate clauses.
- 4Describe the clause typesMAIN: cand stand on its own, has meaning.
SUBORDINATE: Needs to be included in a sentence. The subordinate clauses can be classified into: adjectival, adverbial and nominal. - 5Which are the word classes?determiner, noun, adjective, pronoun, preposition, conjuction, adverb,
- 6Which are the clause elements?Subject, predicate, direct object, indirect object,complements, verbs.
- 7What's a phrase?A phrase is a group of words, especially one that is part of a sentence or clause.
- 8How many kinds of phrases are there?Noun:it contains a noun as its head. It consists of one ore more words.
Verb:It may be an ordinary verb and also an auxiliary
Adjectival :the head is an adjective, sometimes with an adverb of degree
Adverbial:the head is an adverb.eg.again and again, more slowly, far away from home
prepositional:it is introduced by prepotitions
participial:present(ing) the girl, walking in the rain got wet
past(ed) the girl, climbed on the tree, fell down
infinitival:to hunt lions is dangerous - 9How do you classify the sentence according to its structure?simple:is the smallest sentence-unit possible and normaly has one finite verb. It has subject and predicate
compound:is formed by linking two simple sentences with a co-ordinating conjunction. All the clauses are of equal importance and can stand on its own
complex:is formed by linkind simple sentences together, but the elements are not of equal importance. There is at least one main, and at least one dependent - 10How do you classify the sentence according to its function?statement: gives information and expects no specific responde from the addressee.
question:asks for information and expects responde
command:is used to give orders or requests, and expects some action from the addressee
exclamation:expresses the stron feelings of the speaker and expects no specific response - 11What is a conjunction, what does it do?a word wich join words, phrases or clauses together, such as but, and, yet, so.
there are to types of conjunctions: co-ordinating, and subordinating. - 12What's the stucture of the simple sentence?the simple sentence consists of a single independent clause. The types differ according to whether one or more clause elements are obligatory present in addition to the subject and the verb. The verb element in a simple sentenec is always a finitve verb phrase
- 13which are current and result COPULA VERBS?CURRENT:have two subclasses *state of existence:identifies attributes that are in a continuing state of existence. be, seem, appear.
*sensory perception:it has to do with the senses
RESULT:identify and attribute that is the result of a process of change:became, grow, get, turn, end up. - 14How many times are there in English?3: present, future, past
- 15How many tenses are there in English?2:past and present
- 16How do you form the passive form of a sentence?The object becomes the subject, and you should put the verb to be according to the tense and the past participle
they gave me flowers
flowers were given to me - 17Which are the primary functions of modals?CAN COULD: ability: I can lift 25 kg/I can type.
MAY/MIGHT: permission: You may leave early.
WILL/WOULD:prediction : It will rain soon.
SHALL+I/WE: prediction: Can we find our way home? - I'm sure we shall.
SHOULD/OUGHT TO: duty: You should do as you're told.
MUST:inescapable obligation: You must be quiet.
NEEDN'T:lack of necessity/obligation
you needn't come to the weeding
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