a pronoun such as “his” or “her/s” or “our/s” or “their/s” which denotes possession
Possessive Pronoun
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a pronoun which refers back to itself – e.g. myself, yourself, etc
Reflexive Pronoun
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pronouns use to ask questions , e.g. “who”, “whose”, “which”
Interrogative Pronoun
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a pronoun which refers to things in a general or open way – e.g. “someone”, “anybody”
Indefinite Pronoun
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pronouns which are used to point at things – e.g. “this”, “that”
Demonstrative Pronoun
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“the” – a specific thing
Definite Article
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a word, or phrase, usually a pronoun such as “it”, or “he” or “that” which refers forward in the text to a noun which has yet to be included
Cataphoric Reference
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a word, or phrase, usually a pronoun such as “it”, or “he” or “that” which refers backwards in the text to a noun which has already been used
Anaphoric Reference
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a full verb, where the reader knows who’s doing the action, how many people are doing it and when it’s being done – e.g. “The man was running across the park.”
Finite Verb
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not a full verb, where the reader does not know who’s doing the action, how many people are doing it and when it’s being done – e.g. “running across the park.”
Non-finite Verb
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the “to run” form of the verb
Infinitive
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the –ed form of the verb – e.g. “ran”, “played”, “went”
Past Participle
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the –ing form of the verb – e.g. “running”, playing”, “going”
Present Participle
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the more usual type of verb, one which has can take an object – e.g. “John killed the sheep.”
Transitive Verb
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the less usual type of verb, one which does not take an object – e.g. “John sang.”
Intransitive Verb
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it generally forms part of the verb phrase in a sentence – e.g. “He Should have killed the sheep.” it tells us an awful lot about what the author thinks about what he’s writing about
Modal Verb
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the main meaning part of the verb phrase – which would be “killed” in the verb phrase “should have killed”
Lexical Verb
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the helping verb – the little one which helps form the precise tense – such as “have” “was” or “did”
Auxiliary Verb
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the verb is which connects the sentence’s subject to the predicative adjective or its complement – as in “Mary is sweet.”
Copular Verb
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
a pronoun which refers back to itself – e.g. myself, yourself, etc
Back
Reflexive Pronoun
Card 3
Front
pronouns use to ask questions , e.g. “who”, “whose”, “which”
Back
Card 4
Front
a pronoun which refers to things in a general or open way – e.g. “someone”, “anybody”
Back
Card 5
Front
pronouns which are used to point at things – e.g. “this”, “that”
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