The element in the sentence that governs the verb.
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Direct/ Indirect object
The element in the sentence which typically is directly/ indirectly affected by the verb.
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Direct object [example]
The reciever of the action.
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Indirect object [example]
This can be preceded by the preposition 'to'.
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Attributive/ Predicative adjective
The different functions of an adjective. An attributive modifies a noun in a noun phrase. An predicative functions as the predicate after a stative verb.
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Comparative/ superlative
Inflected adjectival forms indicating that the modified heads has the most/ more of a particular quality [er/ est]
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Personal pronoun
Replaces a noun, usually showing grammatical properties like gender/ number/ case
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Reflexive pronoun
An object pronoun which indicates that the object of the verb is the same as the subject - 'she told HERSELF to relax'
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Possessive adjective
Possessive adjective functions as a determiner modifying a noun in a NP 'my hair, your cat'.
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Possessive pronoun
Replace a NP and functions as head rather than modification 'the cat is yours, the car is hers'
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Determiner
A word which modifies a noun to give specific information about grammatical properties of the head.
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Definite/ indefinite article
A determiner that indicates definiteness. 'The' marks a definite article. 'A/ an' marks an indefinite one.
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Demonstrative
that/ those/ this/ these
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1st / 2nd / 3rd person
Indicates whther the agent of the verb is the speaker/ adressee or neither
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Finite/ non finite verb
Finite verbs contain grammatical information such as tense/ number/ person. Non-finite are less specific and normally refer to an action.
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Primary/ modal auxiliary verb
Verbs which give more information about the context of an action. Primary - be/ have/ do. Modal - must/ can/ will ect.
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Imperative
One word verb phrase made up of the stem form of a verb. Indicates order/ instruction eg. Look right!
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Interrogative
Directly asks a question to the addressee.
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Adverbial
Clausal element which gives more information about the context of the verb.
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Phoneme
A unit of sound that cannot be broken into smaller units.
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Allophone
One of a number of possible realisations of an individual phoneme in a particular enviroment.
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Grapheme
A symbol used in a write system to represent a speech sound.
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Morpheme
The lowest morphological unit into which a word can be divided.
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
The element in the sentence which typically is directly/ indirectly affected by the verb.
Back
Direct/ Indirect object
Card 3
Front
The reciever of the action.
Back
Card 4
Front
This can be preceded by the preposition 'to'.
Back
Card 5
Front
The different functions of an adjective. An attributive modifies a noun in a noun phrase. An predicative functions as the predicate after a stative verb.
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