what is the term for a group of words centred around a noun that acts as the head of the phrase which can involve a determiner, modifier and qualifier e.g. the expensive television in the corner?
noun phrase
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what is the term for a group of words built around a head word. can include auxiliary verbs that help to show tense or someone's degree of commitment e.g. you could buy me a drink?
verb phrase
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what is the term for a verb that shows tense?
primary auxiliary verb
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what is the term for a verb that shows a degree of commitment ?
modal auxiliary verb
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what acts as the focus of the clause, and is often the focus of a relational verb process or the agent of a material verb process e.g. I
subject
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what identifies the entity being acted on by the action of a verb process e.g. television?
object
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what identifies the circumstances of a verb process in terms of time, place or manner e.g. the floor
adverbial
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what is the attribute of a subject in a relational verb process e.g. tired?
complement
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what is the term for the joining of two clauses that gives the one clause (the main) more weight than the other
subordinating
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what is the term for the joining of two clauses that gives them equal weighting?
co-ordinating
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what is the type of voice that omits the agent using a prepositional phrase and the verb phrase changes to a form of to be + participle form (verb root+en/ed)?
passive
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what is the type of voice that places the agent in the subject position for prominence and places the verb phrase in present or past tense
active
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what type of sentence only has one clause?
simple
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what type of sentence contains a subordinate clause or clauses?
complex
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what type of sentence has two or more independent clauses joined by a comma, semicolon or conjunction e.g. this house is too big, and this house is too expensive
compounding
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Card 2
Front
what is the end of a word?
Back
suffix
Card 3
Front
what is the base of a word?
Back
Card 4
Front
what is the beginning of a word?
Back
Card 5
Front
what is the term for a group of words centred around a noun that acts as the head of the phrase which can involve a determiner, modifier and qualifier e.g. the expensive television in the corner?
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