English Language - U2 glossary - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
the study of the structure of words and how they change	morphology	60%
the study of how sounds function within languages	phonology	60%
an affix at the end of a word	suffix	60%
words that modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs	adverbs	40%
a morpheme such as a prefix, infix, or suffix	affix	40%
combining two or more words to create a new word	compounding	40%
words that link clauses, sentences, or words	conjunctions	40%
the study of the sounds of human speech	phonetics	40%
an affix at the beginning of a word	prefix	40%
words that describe an action, state, or occurrence	verbs	40%
a phrase where an adjective is the head, possibly with other words	adjective phrase	20%
words that describe or modify nouns	adjectives	20%
an affix inserted within a word	infix	20%
the smallest units of meaning in a language – whole words or parts of words	morphemes	20%
a phrase that has a noun (or pronoun) as its main word	noun phrase	20%
words that represent a person, place, thing, or idea	nouns	20%
groups of words in a sentence but do not contain a subject-verb pair	phrases	20%
a phrase that begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun	prepositional phrase	20%
used to show the relationship between a noun and another word	prepositions	20%
words that replace nouns to avoid repetition	pronouns	20%
a clause that provides additional information and cannot stand alone	subordinating clause	20%
the study of the rules that govern the structure of sentences	syntax	20%
a standardised system of notation for the sounds of spoken language	the International Phonetic Alphabet	20%
a phrase that includes a verb and its complements, objects, or adverbials	verb phrase	20%
categories of words, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.	word class	20%
the shortened form of a word or phrase.	abbreviation	0%
the first letters of a phrase, pronounced as a word	acronym	0%
a word, phrase, or clause that modifies a verb, adjective, or sentence	adverbial	0%
words that act as adverbs to modify verbs, adjectives, or entire sentences	adverbials	0%
a phrase where an adverb is the head, possibly with other words	adverb phrase	0%
the adding of an affix to a root or stem to form a new word	affixation	0%
a word that is no longer in everyday use and seems old-fashioned	archaism	0%
helping verbs used with a main verb to express tense, mood, or voice	auxiliary verbs	0%
the removal of an affix from an existing word	backformation	0%
combining parts of two words to create a new word	blending	0%
words adopted from one language into another	borrowings	0%
a morpheme that cannot stand alone as a word	bound morpheme	0%
a type of semantic change where a word's meaning becomes more general	broadening	0%
the denotation remains the same but the associations of a word change	changing connotation	0%
groups of words in a sentence that contain a subject and a predicate	clauses	0%
when a brand name or proper noun becomes a common noun	commonisation	0%
a word, phrase, or clause necessary for completing a given expression	complement	0%
a sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent one	complex sentence	0%
a sentence with at least two independent clauses and one dependent one	compound-complex sentence	0%
a sentence with at least two independent clauses, a conjunction or ;	compound sentence	0%
a shortened form of a word (group) – an apostrophe indicates omissions	contraction	0%
changing the word class of a word without altering its form	conversion of word class	0%
a clause linked to another with a coordinating conjunction ("and," "but")	coordinating clause	0%
conjunctions that link words or clauses of equal rank	coordinators	0%
a sentence that makes a statement	declarative sentence	0%
the literal or primary meaning of a word	denotation	0%
a morpheme to create a new word or change the word class	derivational morpheme	0%
a semantic change where a meaning becomes more negative or pejorative	deterioration	0%
words that introduce nouns and specify their reference	determiners	0%
a semantic change where a meaning becomes more positive or prestigious	elevation	0%
the study of the origin and historical development of words	etymology	0%
a sentence that expresses strong emotion	exclamative sentence	0%
a morpheme that can stand alone as a word	free morpheme	0%
a sentence that gives a command or request	imperative sentence	0%
a suffix that shows tense, case, or number	inflectional morpheme	0%
the first letters of each word in a phrase, pronounced separately	initialism	0%
words or phrases that express strong emotions or reactions	interjections	0%
a sentence that asks a question	interrogative sentence	0%
the study of words, their meanings and origins	lexicology	0%
verbs that express necessity, possibility, permission, or ability	modal verbs	0%
words or phrases that describe or qualify a noun within a noun phrase	modifiers in a noun phrase	0%
the use of specific morphological forms to create patterns in language	morphological patterning	0%
a type of semantic change where a word's meaning becomes more specific	narrowing	0%
a newly coined word or expression	neologism	0%
the process of turning a verb or adjective into a noun	nominalisation	0%
the entity that is acted upon by the subject in a sentence	object	0%
when words become outdated and are no longer in use	obsolescence	0%
it contains a verb and states something about the subject	predicate	0%
the core part of a word that carries the primary meaning	root morpheme	0%
the process by which the meaning of a word changes over time	semantic change	0%
the study of meaning in language, of words, phrases, and sentences	semantics	0%
incomplete sentences that lack a subject, verb, or complete thought	sentence fragments	0%
the arrangement of words in a sentence varies due to sentence type	sentence structures	0%
a type of semantic change where a word's meaning changes entirely	shift	0%
the length of a word is altered by removing syllables	shortening	0%
a sentence with one independent clause and no dependent clauses	simple sentence	0%
the part of a word that remains when all affixes are removed	stem morpheme	0%
the part of a sentence or clause indicating who or what performs the action	subject	0%
a common sentence structure in English where the subject comes first	subject-verb-object word order	0%
conjunctions that introduce subordinate clauses	subordinators	0%
the concept dealing with the relationship between idea & its representation	the relation of meaning and sign	0%
the representation of English speech sounds using a system like the IPA	the transcription of English	0%
the disappearance of a word from a language	word loss	0%
the sequence in which words are arranged in a sentence	word order	0%

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