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Grammar for the test

Grammar for the test

Sandrine Tavares

Sandrine Tavares

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Language English
Category English
Level University
Created / Updated 16.05.2012 / 20.05.2012
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Adjective

Comparative adjective: compares 2 things.

Demonstrative adjective: shows how physically close speaker is to the thing

-ing/-ed adjective

possesive ajd

superlative adjective

Clause

Main clause:

subordinate clause (untergeordnet)

relative clause (der Mann, dem....)

Conditional

1st: will, present

2nd: would, past simple

3rd: would have seen her if I had arrived (would + Present Perfect// Past Perf.

Determiner

My, mine, some, a , the, this, ...

what is the -ing thing called? e.g. I hate shopping

The Gerunding

What's this called: Go home!

Imperative

What kind of questions can you build?

direct ones and inderect ones

What is a noun which includes a group of people or things (police, goverment...)

collective noun

What kind of nouns are a combination of 2 or more words (headache)

compound noun

A noun that has a singular and a plural form is a? And a noun that has no plural form is a?

countable or uncountable noun

What's a proper noun?

a name of a person or a place! Robert, London

What a noun called when it's not in the plural? (easy, haha)

singular

Give an example of a present participle

This is an interesting film (hää??)

what's this? seen, given, played...

past participle

what's this? seen, given, played...

past participle

phrase- what's that?

a group of words which make sense, but do not form a sentence!

Sandrine's -> what is the s at the end meant to be?

a possessive

What is a dependent preposition?

a word that is always used with a particular noun, verb or adjective... interested n, depend on, bored with

this/ that , what is that?

a demonstrative pronoun

him, her... what's that?

object pronoun

I, you, he, we... me him, her... what's that?

subject pronoun or object pronoun: both = personal pronoun

myself. what's that?

reflexive pronoun

which, what's that?

relative pronoun

Ponctuation, what's that?

organise writing n clauses, phrases: full stop, capital letter, apostrophe, comma

much, many, a lot of, what's that?

Quantifier

isn't it? Doesn't she? etc. what's that?

Question tags

She said she was worried = passive voice and?

reported statement

in indirect speech, when using verbs so people recognize it's indirect like: tell, advise, suggest.. (Jane advised John to study harder): what's that?

Reporting verb

If you put an "s" to the verb following he/she/it, what's that?

it's a subject- verb agrrement

after, by, ... words or phrases that indicate a time period, what's that?

Time expression

Auxiliary verb, what's that?

be, do, have... Verbs that are used to make questions, negatives and tenses...

"go", "play" (without "to") what's that?

the base form of the verb

can, should, must, will, ... a verb used with other verbs to show ideas such as ability or oblgation or possibilty: what's that?

modal verb

homework, study, ... lots of words of the same field =

Lexis

False friend

e.g. "eventually" ... doesnt mean eventuellement

Redewendung

Idiom

look after, ... what's that?

phrasal verb

Nouns, verbs, adj or prepositions that are made up of 2 or more words

Compounds

Collocation

Words which are used together regularly (make a presentation, not perform a presentation

What is you've instead of you have?

a contraction