Flashcards on English Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology
English Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology Explained
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Grammar & Morphosyntax: English Grammar Overview
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Question: What is the definition of a verb in English grammar?
Answer: A verb expresses an action, state, or occurrence and is one of the main parts of a sentence, often telling what the subject does or what happens to th
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Question: What are auxiliary verbs and what do they do?
Answer: Auxiliary verbs help form tenses, voices, moods, or aspects.
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Question: Name the primary auxiliary verbs and give an example sentence.
Answer: Primary auxiliaries: be, do, have. Examples: She is running. They have finished.
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Question: What are modal auxiliaries? Give examples and a sentence.
Answer: Modal auxiliaries express modality (ability, permission, obligation, future etc.). Examples: can, may, must, will, shall. Example: She can sing. You m
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Question: What are lexical verbs?
Answer: Lexical verbs carry the main semantic content (meaning) of the clause and can function independently as the main verb.
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Question: What is an intensive (linking) verb? Give examples and a sentence.
Answer: Intensive verbs link the subject to its complement or adverbial. Examples: be, seem, become, live. Examples: She seems happy. They live in China.
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Question: What are extensive verbs?
Answer: Extensive verbs require an action; they express actions rather than linking states.
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Question: Define transitive verb and give three subtypes with examples.
Answer: Transitive verbs require an object. Subtypes: monotransitive (one direct object) — She writes a letter; ditransitive (direct and indirect object) — Sh
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Question: What is an intransitive verb? Provide an example.
Answer: An intransitive verb does not take a direct object. Example: Birds fly.
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Question: What does subject-verb concord (agreement) require?
Answer: Subject-verb concord requires the subject and verb to match in number (singular/plural) and person (first, second, third).