Grammar
What is a conjuction?
A word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause (e.g. and, but, if ).
What is a lexical set?
A lexical set is a group of words that share a common feature, such as a topic, function, form, or phonological feature.
What is phonology?
The study of the way sounds are used in a language and the rules for pronouncing certain words.
What is a function?
A function is a reason why we communicate.
What is a preposition?
A preposition is 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. Some examples of prepositions are words like "in," "at," "on," "of," and "to."
What is an antonym?
An antonym is a word that has the opposite meaning of another word. For example, "day" and "night" are antonyms, and "on" and "off" are also antonyms.
What phonological topics are included in English?
Phonemes, word stress, sentence stress, and intonation.
Write some examples of functions:
Greeting, inviting, agreeing, refusing, etc.
What are suffixes and prefixes?
A prefix is a word part that is added to the beginning of a word, while a suffix is a word part that is added to the end of a word. Both prefixes and suffixes are word parts that carry meaning and can change the meaning of a word.
What is an idiom?
An idiom is a phrase or expression that usually presents a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase.
What is a phoneme?
A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound that distinguishes one word from another in a language.
Write an example for the function "thanking" in a formal way:
I really appreciate your...
Write 5 examples of gramatical forms:
Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and relative words.
Write two examples of homophones:
Baring vs. bearing - Creak vs. creek
Write the phonological form of this word: "Money"
ˈmʌni
What is the function of this sentence: "I don't think that we should do that"
Disagreeing.
What is the "adverb" in this sentence:
"Loudly"
What is a compound word? Add an example.
A compound word is a word or phrase that's formed by combining two or more words, which can function as a single word. Compound words can have new meanings, or the meanings of the combined words may be related to the new word's definition. (e.g: toothbrush.)
What is a dipthong?
A diphthong is a sound composed of two vowel sounds in English. So diphthongs are double vowel sounds in words like chair, fear, or pout.
What is an exponent?
The language we use to express a function is called an exponent.