Vocabulary
It is the beliefs that people have about the characteristics of males and females
Gender Stereotyping
a short monosyllabic word that is used to define if the noun is specific or not (a, an, the)
Articles
What are the most common punctuations marks in English language?
Period (.)
Comma (,)
What is the most common letter in English?
letter "e"
What is the shortest sentence in English language?
"I am." or Go!
Someone who studies the human mind and human emotions and behaviour, and how different situations have an effect on people
Psychologist
Сэтгэл зүйч
Setgel züich
We use have to, must, should, shouldn't, ought to and ought not to to talk about...
obligation and prohibition
What is the strongest punctuation mark, making the most definite pause when used at the end of the sentence?
The word "alphabet" comes from the first two letters of what alphabet?
Greek Alphabet (alpha, beta)
Words we always use even though they add no meaning or value to a sentence are called ruth words. Give one example.
Crutch words
"Then I was like"
"OMG"
"Then like"
"Actually"
"Honestly"
"Basically"
It is a word or phrase that is often used with another word or phrase, in a way that sounds correct to people who have spoken the language all their lives, but might not be expected from the meaning:
Collocation
adding -er to the adjective , or more
What do you call this punctuation that appears as part of a word to show possession?
an apostrophe
(This is Mr. Ben's teddy.)
The word "checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shat Mat" which means _______
"the king is helpless".
What is a sentence?
A sentence is a group of words containing a subject and a verb
Someone who lacks empathy and concern for others.
Difficult Person
The following are the articles we learned; a, an, the, and no article. When do we not use "no article"?
a. When we are speaking in general (with plural and uncountable nouns)
example
I love flowers
b. With some nouns
home, work, school, church after at/to/from
c. Before meals, days, and months
d. before next/last+day, week, etc
What do you call this punctuation that is used to indicated the omission of words or suggest an incomplete thought.
...
an ellipsis (...)
What is the longest English word without a true vowel (a,e,i,o,u)?
rhythm
Goodbye is a one-word sentence originally comes from an Old English phrase meaning _______
"god be with you"
The treatment of other people with courtesy and politeness, and showing correct public behaviour.
Good manners
It is a verb tense which is used to show that an action has taken place once or many times before now.
Example:
Present Perfect Tense
What are the 16 punctuation marks in English?
the period, question mark, exclamation point, comma, semicolon, colon, em dash, en dash, hyphen, parentheses, brackets, braces, apostrophe, double quotation marks, single quotation marks, and ellipsis
The en dash is approximately the length of the letter N, and the em dash the length of the letter M. The shorter en dash (–) is used to mark ranges and with the meaning “to” in phrases like “Dover–Calais crossing.” The longer em dash (—) is used to separate extra information or mark a break in a sentence.
What are the only two unhyphenated English word with three consecutive double letters. Other such words, like "sweet-toothed", require a hyphen to be readily readable.
bookkeeping and bookkeeper
A pangram sentence is one that contains every letter in the language. Give me an example.
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"