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Analysis Of Language
The study of analysing language
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is grammar? | The structure of language and how it is presented (the foundations of language) |
| Define "Rank Scale" | Bigger unit of analysis in the sentence (sentence, clause, phrase, word and morpheme) |
| What is morphology? | Building blocks of words into constructive chunks (roots, suffixes, affixes, prefixes and inflectional morphemes) |
| Define "Bound & Unbound Morphemes" | Morphemes that cannot (bound) or can (unbound) work on their own |
| What is the function of an affix? | They add shades of meaning to a word |
| Define "Low Frequency Vocabulary" | Terminology that come up rarely in texts which use multiple affixes |
| What is parsing? | The process of breaking down sentences |
| Decipher the intials "SVO" and define the three words | Subject (source of the verb), verb (the action) and object (target of the verb) |
| What is passive voice? | The voice used when the object is switched and becomes the subject |
| Define "Clauses" | Any part of the sentence that contains a subject and a verb (and often an object) |
| What are independent or main clauses? | A clause that makes sense on its own |
| Define "Dependent/ Subordinate Clauses" | A clause that doesn't make sense alone |
| What is a phrase? | Part of a clause that clusters around a headword |
| Name five word classes that a headword falls into | A noun, a verb, an adjective, an adverb or a preposition |
| What is a conjugation? | The act of changing a verb to fit a different tense |
| Predict when it would be the right time to use the present tense | To indicate that something happened before the time of utterance, but our attention is now on the result or consequence of this |
| When is the continuous/ progressive voice used? | To indicate incompletion |
| Define "Perfect Continuous Voice" | A voice that combines "perfect" with "progressive", showing that it was a continuous process, but one that is now complete |
| What are the four types of noun and what do they each refer to? | Common noun (referring to things), abstract noun (referring to non concrete objects), proper noun (referring to names) and pronoun (referring to participants in discourse) |
| Define "Transitive & Intransitive Verbs" | Verbs that either require objects (transitive) or not (intransitive) |
| Other than transitive and intransitive, what are the three other types of verb and what to they each refer to? | Modal verb (referring to probability), dummy verb (referring to nothing important) and phrasal verb (referring to an action with more than one word) |
| Identify the five types of adjective and what they refer to | Quality (description), quantity (no number), number (exact amount), demonstrative (emphasis on items being omitted) and interrogative (asking a question) |
| What are the six types of adverb and what do they each refer to? | Time (when), place (where), frequency (how often), degree (how much), confirmation/negation (if it happened) and comment (how well) |
| Identify two types of conjunction and their function | Subordinating conjunction introduces a subordinate clause and correlative conjunction joins words or word groups to introduce a subordinate clause |
| What are single, double and compound prepositions? | Single (where object is placed in range), double (like single but with two words) and compound (like single but with more than two words) |
| Give one example of an definate article and two examples of an indefinate article | "The" for definate and "a/an" for indefinate |
| What is a clause? | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb |
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