lexis

• Dynamic verb


  Indictates an action e.g. (sun, ride, grow, throw)
• Stative verb


  Describe a state or situation (be, have, seem, know)
• Abstract noun 


  A noun denoting an idea, quality or state rather than a concrete action. e.g. (careless)
• Compound noun 


  A noun existing of two or more existing words e.g. playgroup
• Adverb 


  The adjective that describes the verb
• Modal Verbs?

  could, should, would
• Determiners


  A determining modifier e.g every, a, the,
• Quantifiers


  Adjectives that describe how much
• Mitigators

  Limiting words or phrases
• Internsifiers

  Enhancing words or phrases
• Indefinate article 


  A, an
• Preposition


  A word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or to introduce an object
• Conjunction 


  And, but, however...
• Semantic field


  A group or word / expressions that are related in meaning
• Antithesis


  Opposites
• Neologism 


  Newly coined word or expression
• Exclamative, interrogatives, imperatives, un/mitigated declarative
• Hyperbaton


  An inversion of the typical order of words e.g 'this i must see'
• semantics?


  The study of meaning in language.
• archaism?


  a word that has fallen out of common usage.
• Proper noun?


  Names of people and places/
• Abstract noun?


  Intangible things
• Beauty?


  An abstract noun.
• collocation?


  two words placed together as part of a set phrase.
• 'sweet dreams' = collocation
• Comparative comparison?


  'A hotter day than yesterday.'
• Superlative comparison?


  'the hottest day of the year.'
• Pejorative


  A noun or adjective expressing  contempt or disapproval.