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General AO1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Concrete Noun | A common object that can be experienced with the five senses. (Brick, plane, table) |
| Abstract noun | A noun that describes a concept (love, hatred, justice) |
| Collective noun | A noun to describe a group or collection (assembly) |
| Plural noun | A noun for more than one thing (cats, letters, illnesses) |
| Stative verb | A verb that shows the state of something (is, was) |
| Dynamic verb | A verb that shows an action (jump, run, cry) |
| Adverb of manner | An adverb that describes a way of doing something (quickly, timidly) |
| Adverb of time | An adverb that shows when something happens (now, later, soon) |
| Adverb of place | An adverb that describes where something is (about, anywhere, elsewhere) |
| Adverb of frequency | An adverb that describes how often something takes place (often, never, always) |
| Descriptive adjective | An adjective that describes something (cute, ugly, dire) |
| Quantitative adjective | An adjective that describes how much of something there is (one, several, many) |
| Comparative adjective | An adjective that compares something (larger, quieter, smaller) |
| Superlative adjective | An adjective that states which is the most extreme (greatest, smallest, tallest) |
| Figurative Language | Language used in a non-literal way in order to describe something in another’s terms |
| Semantic Field | Groups of words connected by a shared field of reference |
| Hypernym | A word that labels categories (animal, transport) |
| Hyponym | Words that can be included in a wider, more general category (bus, plane, train for transport) |
| Neology | New word formation, including blends, compounds, acronyms, initialisms, eponyms |
| Semantic change | Process of a word changing meaning, including narrowing, broadening, amelioration, pejoration, semantic reclamation |
| Morpheme | Smallest grammatical unit |
| Free morpheme | A morpheme that can stand on its own as a word |
| Affix (Bound Morpheme) | A morpheme that cannot stand on its own as a word but combines with others to make a new word |
| Head word | The central word of a phrase and may be modified by other words. |
| Active voice | A clause where the agent is the subject |
| Passive voice | A clause where the patient is the subject |
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