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What symbol is used to represent a long vowel in phonetics?
What is the symbol for the vowel sound in the word 'sheep'?
What is the term for a sequence of two vowels realized as one sound in pronunciation?
What is the phoneme for the vowel sound in the word 'boot'?
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What is the term for a word that functions as a single unit of meaning?
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What is the term for the broad classification of words into categories such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives?
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What is the symbol for the vowel sound in the word 'four'?
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What is the term for a sequence of three vowels realized as one sound in pronunciation?
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What is the primary function of nouns in sentences?
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What is the primary function of verbs in sentences?
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What is the primary function of adjectives in sentences?
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What is the primary function of adverbs in sentences?
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What is the primary function of pronouns in sentences?
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Which type of pronoun is used to refer to the speaker themselves?
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What is the main difference between adjectives and adverbs?
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What is the main characteristic of the four smaller word classes in English?
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What do linguists refer to as lexical category?
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What type of words are 'baby' and 'bargain'?
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What is the main function of a determiner?
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What is the main difference between content words and function words?
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What part of speech is the word 'carefully' in the sentence 'They opened the backpack carefully'?
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What is the term used to describe the classification of words into groups such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives?
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What is the main function of a pronoun?
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What is the term used to describe words that have meaning and refer to objects, events, and abstract concepts?
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Study Notes
English Word Classes
- English has four large word classes: nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs
- Nouns represent animate and inanimate objects, and can be subjects or objects in sentences (e.g., beauty, cat, leaf, niece, nonsense, water)
- Verbs represent actions, events, or states, and hold a pivotal position in sentences (e.g., break, decide, fall, have, keep, love)
- Adjectives occur before nouns as descriptive words or after verbs like "be" with a similar function (e.g., feeble, gigantic, lazy, new, rough, vain)
- Adverbs are a diverse class, representing circumstantial information, modifying adjectives or other adverbs, and forming connections between sentences (e.g., again, always, sometimes, soon, clearly, efficiently, quickly, tentatively)
Smaller Word Classes
- Pronouns stand for nouns and their accompanying words (noun phrases) to avoid unnecessary repetition (e.g., personal pronouns: I, you, he, she, it, we, they; possessive pronouns: mine, yours, hers)
- Pronouns also include reflexive pronouns (e.g., myself, yourself, themselves), relative pronouns (e.g., who, whose, which), and indefinite pronouns (e.g., someone, nobody, anything)
English Vowels and Diphthongs
- In British English, there are five long vowels: /i:/ (as in sheep), /ɜ:/ (as in fur), /ɔ:/ (as in four), /ɑ:/ (as in car), and /u:/ (as in boot)
- Diphthongs are sequences of two vowels realized as one sound in pronunciation; examples include /eɪ/ (as in day), /ɔɪ/ (as in boy), /aɪ/ (as in my), and others
English Sounds (Phonemes)
- Vowels: /i:/, /ɪ/, /e/, /ɜ:/, /æ/, /ʌ/, /ɔ:/, /ʊ/
- Diphthongs: /ʊə/, /eɪ/, /ɔɪ/, /aʊ/, /ɪə/, and others
- Triphthongs: /aʊə/, /ɔɪǝ/, /aɪə/, /eɪǝ/, and others
- Consonants: /p/, /b/, /t/, /d/, /k/, /g/, /f/, /v/, /θ/, /ð/, /s/, /z/, /ʃ/, /ʒ/, /ʧ/, /ʤ/, /m/, /n/, /ŋ/, /r/, /l/, /j/, /w/, /h/
Morphology
- Word classes, also known as parts of speech, include nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs
- Content words refer to objects, events, and abstract concepts, whereas function words have little or no meaning, such as determiners, pronouns, conjunctions, and certain verbs
- Examples of content words include nouns (baby, bargain), verbs (read, sleep), adjectives (peaceful), and adverbs (carefully)
- Examples of function words include determiners (the, an, a), pronouns (I, him, our), conjunctions, and certain verbs (am, was, should)
Parts of Speech
- Terms such as "adjective" and "noun" are used to label forms in the language as parts of speech or word classes
- Examples of parts of speech include articles, adjectives, nouns, verbs, prepositions, and adverbs
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Description
This quiz covers the basics of English grammar, focusing on the four large classes of words: nouns, verbs, and more. Learn to identify and understand the different parts of speech.
