Grammar Revision
- Created by: PattyMascall
- Created on: 24-04-22 12:16
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- Grammar
- Nouns: names of people, places and things
- Common Nouns: classify things into general types or categories, e.g. chair, country, woman, house.
- Abstract Nouns:refer to ideas, processes, occasions, times, qualities which cannot be touched or seen – e.g. hatred, justice, equality.
- Concrete Nouns: refer to physical things which can be touched and measured – e.g. chair, banana.
- Proper Nouns: refer to specific people and places and are written with an initial capital letter, e.g. Laura, Paris, Coronation Street
- Collective Nouns: refer to collections of things such as a 'group' of people.
- Common Nouns: classify things into general types or categories, e.g. chair, country, woman, house.
- Verbs: action or state of being
- Lexical Verbs: These have a meaning that can be identified independently
- Auxilary Verbs: The additional verbs in a verb phrase that assist the lexical verb
- Modal Auxilary Verbs: Convey judgements about the likelihood of events. There are 9 modal verbs – can, could, may, might, will, would, shall, should, must.
- Primary Verbs: Can exist as lexical verbs and auxiliaries. There are only three of these – be, have and do
- Adjectives: Describe a noun.
- Comparative: comparing two things
- Superlative: most or least of something
- Adverbs: Describe a verb/action
- Manner -how something is done Time -when something is done Place - where or in what direction something is done) e.g. backwards Degree- to what intensity/how much something is done Comment- adding an option to a clause or phrase Frequency - how often something is done
- Pronouns: used instead of a noun e.g. ‘he’/ ‘she’
- Possessive Pronouns: e.g. My/mine/her/hers/it/its/their/theirs
- Pronouns can be classified as first, second or third person
- They can also be labelled as ‘singular’ (referring to one person/thing) or ‘plural’ (referring to more than one person/thing)
- Prepositions: describe distance/ position/place
- Determiners: ‘the’/ ‘a’ / ‘an’
- Conjunctions: joining words – e.g. ‘and’/ ‘but’
- Sentences
- Functions: Declarative?Imperative?Interrogative?Exclamative?
- Types: Simple Compound Complex Minor
- Adverbials: words or phrases that act like adverbs.
- Clauses: Main Clause- a clause that can stand alone as a simple sentence without being dependent. Every major sentence will include a main clause.?Coordinate clause – is also a main clause in a sentence containing more than one main clause. Subordinate clause – a clause that can not act alone as a main clause and forms the part of a complex sentence.
- Nouns: names of people, places and things
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