Grammar Features
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?- Created by: chloetopping97
- Created on: 09-10-14 11:18
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- Grammer
- Nouns
- Proper Nouns define something. eg Telford, Chloe, Asda
- Common Nouns are things
- Concrete Nouns; things you can touch eg Table
- Abstract Nouns; can't touch. eg Love, Happiness
- Collective Nouns; collection of things ef flock of birds, team
- Pronouns stop repetition
- Nouns
- Proper Nouns define something. eg Telford, Chloe, Asda
- Common Nouns are things
- Concrete Nouns; things you can touch eg Table
- Abstract Nouns; can't touch. eg Love, Happiness
- Collective Nouns; collection of things ef flock of birds, team
- Personal Pronouns replaces subject eg I and he
- Nouns
- Adjectives describe nouns
- Comparative; comparison "a hotter day than yesterday"
- Superlative; comparison "the hottest day of the year"
- Noun Phrases
- Determiner eg 'the'
- Pre-modifier eg 'blazing'
- Head eg 'fire'
- Post-modifier eg 'in the barn'
- Sentence Moods
- Declarative; makes a statement eg "Helen is 18. She starts Uni next month"
- Interrogative; ask questions eg "Where have you been?"
- Imperative; issue commands, advice eg "Close the door"
- Exclamatory; emphatic, exclamation marks eg "I don't believe it!"
- Sentences
- Simple Sentence (one clause)
- "He has 60 driving lessons"
- Compound sentences (two main clauses)
- "He had 60 driving lessons but he failed his test"
- Complex sentences (main and subordinate clause)
- "His mother, who grew up in Glasgow, had a Scottish accent"
- Simple Sentence (one clause)
- Verbs
- Main Verbs (dynamic) eg to eat, to sleep, to jump
- Main verbs (stative) eg to think to seem to believe
- Modal/auxiliaries eg can, will, shall, could, would, might
- Primary verbs eg to be, to have, to do
- Nouns
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