Hierarchy of Grammar

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What is the smallest unit of meaning?
Morpheme
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How many different word classes are there in total?
Eight
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What are the five clause elements? (Abbreviation)
SVOCA
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What is the smallest unit of meaning that makes sense when it's by itself?
Free Morpheme
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What is the smallest unit of meaning that doesn't make sense when it's by itself
Bound Morpheme
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What changes the meaning of a word when added to the end of a word?
Suffix
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What changes the meaning of a word when added to the beginning of a word?
Prefix
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Can a phrase stand alone as complete sentence? Why?
No as it doesn't give a complete meaning.
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In a clause, what are the two types of objects are there?
Direct object and Indirect object
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What do the grammatical classes consist of?
Determiners, Pronouns, Prepositions, Conjunctions
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Which class is described as 'closed'
Grammatical classes
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What does a phrase consist of? AKA what it doesn't have
It doesn't have a subject and a verb.
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What does a clause in its minimal form consist of?
A verb and a subject
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What do the lexical word classes consist of?
Verbs, Nouns, Adjectives, Adverbs
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What is a sentence?
A complete grammatical unit which makes sense and can stand by itself
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What are the two main types of discourse?
Spoken and narrative
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List the three basic types of sentences
Simple, Compound and Complex
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What is the final structure in the grammatical hierarchy? Explain what it is
Discourse. It is longer than a single sentence and will have some kind of structure.
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How many different word classes are there in total?

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