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Flashcards by Florence Lane, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Florence Lane
over 4 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What are the concepts included on the modal spectrum? | Formal - Informal Planned - Spontaneous Permanent - Ephemeral Transactional - Interactional Distant - Personal Asynchronous - Synchronous |
| What is a simple sentence | follows the SVO (subject verb object) order. only 1 verb group |
| What is a compound sentence? | 2 simple clauses linked by fanboys |
| What is a complex sentence? | Subordinate clauses linked to a main clause by connectives or verbs ending in '-ing' or '-ed' |
| What is a minor sentence? | Fragments of a complete structures that stand alone. (Often Deictic) Doesn't have to follow the SVO order |
| What is a morpheme? | The smallest unit of meaning. They make up all words. |
| What are the 3 types of morphemes and what do they do? | Free morpheme can stand alone E.g:Friend Prefix-bound morpheme can be added to the beginning of a free morpheme. E.g:Unfriend Suffix-bound morpheme can be added to the end of a free morpheme. E.g:Friendly Together = UNFRIENDLY |
| How do you identify a subordinate clause? | Indicated by commas and can appear at ant point in the sentence |
| What is a parenthetical clause? | A subordinate clause that occurs in brackets or dashes. |
| What is a relative clause? | A clause that uses a relative pronoun |
| What is the term used to describe the terms surrounding a noun? | Noun phrases |
| What is a verb phrase? | Words surrounding the verb in the sentence. |
| What tense describes an action that is happening now? | Simple present tense I walk |
| What tense describes an action that is happening now and will continue to happen? | Present progressive tense I Am walking |
| What is the present perfect tense? | An action that has already happened I have walked |
| What is the present perfect progressive tense? | An action that has happened and is unfinished I have been walking |
| What term describes an action that has finished and is in the past? | Simple Past tense I walked |
| What term describes an action that was happening? | Past progressive tense I was walking |
| What is the past perfect tense? | an action that has already happened before something else happened I had walked |
| What tense describes the sentence: I had been walking. | Past perfect progressive - an action that was continuous but has now finished |
| When do we use the simple future tense? | When describing an action that is going to happen in future. I will walk. |
| What is the future progressive tense? | Action is continuous and will be happening in future. I will be walking |
| What tense describes an action that will be completed in the future? | Future perfect tense I will have walked |
| What tense describes an action that is continuous and will be completed in future? | Future perfect progressive tense. I will have been walking |
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