Glossaire
- Appositive
An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. The appositive can be a short or long combination of words
- Command
An imperative sentence gives a command. It usually ends with a period, but it may also end with an exclamation point (!).Commands ask or tell people to do something.
- Determiners
are words which come at the beginning of the noun phrase.
- Exclamation
a sentence is exclamatory if it ends with an exclamation mark. The exclamation mark indicates strong emotion.
- Gerund
A gerund is a noun made from a verb by adding "-ing." The gerund form of the verb "read" is "reading." You can use a gerund as the subject, the complement, or the object of a sentence.
- Modify
One word or phrase modifies another by making its meaning more specific.
In the phrase primary-s chool teacher
Teacher is modified by p rimary-school (to mean a specific kind of teacher
- Question tag
Question tags are short questions at the end of statements.
They are mainly used in speech when we want to:
confirm that something is true or not, or
to encourage a reply from the person we are speaking to
- Statement
A declarative sentence (also known as a statement) makes a statement and ends with a period. It's named appropriately because it declares or states something.
