(A-Level English Lang) GRAMMAR+WORD CLASS

• Nouns are experienced through senses
• Noun Identification-

  Is It a Person, Place, Thing or Idea
• Noun Identification-

  Makes sense with ‘the’, ‘a’, or ‘some’ in front of it
• Noun Identification-

  Can be plural and singular
• Noun Identification-

  often ends in common noun suffixes: ‘tive‘, ’tion’, ‘ment’ or ‘ness’
• Common Nouns-

  everything that isn’t a proper noun
• Common noun-

  break down into two categorie of count and non-count
• Concrete Nouns can be experienced through senses and can be measured
• Abstract nouns are an unobservable idea
• Adjectives:

  Adjectives modify the noun and add additional detail to it
• Adjective Identification

  What kind

  Which one

  How many/much

  Whose
• Possesional adjectives create a noun phrase
• If an adjective occurs before the noun it is Pre-Modifying
• If an adjective occurs after the noun it is Post-Modifying
• Adjective Types

  Descriptive Adjectives describe the noun e.g red, fluffy
• Adverbs detail the verb in a sentence
• Adverb Identification

  How did he do it

  When did he do it

  How often did he do it

  Where did he do it
• Determiner


  Pre-modifying adjective that describes quantity or specifics e.g the, every, some
• Intensifier 


  An adverb used for emphasis e.g really, completely, so or too
• Interjective


  a word or phrase used to express sudden emotion e.g swearing, yay, wow, ouch
• Phrase


  A group of two or more related words that function together. Does not include a verb.
• Preposition


  Words that relate to another word in a sentence. Often about time or location
• Main Verb

  Core verb indicating action or state of being
• Auxiliary Verb

  Help main verb in expressing tense e.g be, have, do, will
• Modal Verbs

  verbs that express possibility and permission e.g could, may, might, can
• Verb phrase

  A phrase involving a main, auxiliary or modal verb