A subdivision of a noun. These usually begin with a capital letter and refer to specific people, places, occasions etc. E.g. Italy, Olivia, Saturday
Proper
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A subdivision of a noun. These are not so specific and refer to types of people, objects, feelings etc. E.g. student, city, disappointment.
Common
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A subdivision of common nouns. These refer to things that physically exist: house, tree, table
Concrete
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A subdivision of common nouns. These refer to feelings, ideas, qualities etc (things that do not physically exist): freedom, friendship, strength
Abstract
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A subdivision of common nouns. These are names given to groups of people, animals, objects: team, flock, herd
Collective
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Words used to describe nouns. E.g. an expensive car, a tall man.
Adjectives
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A subdivision of adjectives. Words such as "bigger" and "colder" are examples.
Comparatives
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A subdivision of adjectives. Words such as "coldest" and "biggest" are examples.
Superlatives
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Words that refer to to physical actions: run, jump, walk. However, they can also refer to "mental actions" (think, feel, imagine) and to "states" (the house 'stands' tall, that 'seems' fair)
Verbs
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A subdivision of verbs. These are in in a clause or sentence is a single verbs that expreses the main meaning.
Main
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A subdivision of verbs. These are "helping" verbs placed in front of main verbs "I 'must have been' going in the wrong direction". Here 'going' is the main verb, whilst 'must have been' are examples of this type of verb.
Auxiliary
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A type 'voice' for verbs. When this type 'voice' of verb is used the person of thing performing the action is emphasised as the subject of the verb "The teacher 'spoke' to the student".
Active
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A type 'voice' for verbs. When this type 'voice' of verb is used the emphasis is on the object of the verb (the person or thing to which something has been done): "The student 'was spoken to' by the teacher"
Passive
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A type of verb. These are words that clearly refer to actions (push, throw etc.)
Dynamic
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A type of verb. These refer to the states of processes (e.g. believe, know)
Stative
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A type of verb. Verbs that can act as auxiliary verbs and also main verbs. There are only three of them: 'be', 'have' and 'do'. E.g. 'have' is used as a main verb in the sentence "I have a new coat"
Primary
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A type of verb. These are only ever used alongside a main verb. There are nine of them: can, could, will, would, shall, should, may, might, must.
Modal
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These usually give more information about the verbs, describing verbs in the same way adjectives do for nouns. E.g. "She felt 'better'", "he laughed 'loudly'". Many of these words are formed by adding -ly on the end of adjectives.
Adverbs
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Words that take the place of nouns. If the sentence "John gave his telephone number to Laura" is changed to "'he' gave 'it' to 'her'", 3 of these words take the place of nouns.
Pronouns
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An important aspect of verbs. Present and past are in English, Future isn't in English, instead we have other kinds of constructions E.g. modal auxiliary verbs "will" or "shall" to the infinitive form of the verb (I will watch tv)
Tense
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I, me, we, us
First Person
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You
Second Person
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He, she, it, him, her, they, them
Third Person
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Joining words, used to connect the different parts of a sentence.
Conjunctions
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A type of conjunction. These are used when the parts of the sentence are of equal value, the most common are "and", "but" and "or".
Coordinating Conjunctions
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A type of conjunction. These link a subordinate clause to a main clause. Examples are "because", "although", "unless", "until"
Subordinating Conjunctions
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These usually indicate in some way how one thing is related to something else. Examples include prepositions relating to position ("on", "under", "above"), direction ("towards", "past", "to") and time ("before", "during", "after")
Prepositions
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These are placed in front of nouns to indicate quantity or identify the noun in some way. The most common are the words "a", "an" and "the". Other examples include "some", "that" and "one", "two", "three" etc.
Determiners
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These are like other pronouns in that they refer to nouns, but they do not actually take the place of them. They act as linking words in a sentece and are always placed immediately after the noun they refer to: "the man 'who' robbed the bank"
Relative Pronouns
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Front
A subdivision of a noun. These are not so specific and refer to types of people, objects, feelings etc. E.g. student, city, disappointment.
Back
Common
Card 3
Front
A subdivision of common nouns. These refer to things that physically exist: house, tree, table
Back
Card 4
Front
A subdivision of common nouns. These refer to feelings, ideas, qualities etc (things that do not physically exist): freedom, friendship, strength
Back
Card 5
Front
A subdivision of common nouns. These are names given to groups of people, animals, objects: team, flock, herd
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