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    Learn English > English lessons and exercises > English test #124552: Vocabulary: different words of vocabulary and grammar
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    Vocabulary: different words of vocabulary and grammar


     

    Very often, as a teacher, a "mother", an "educator", a member of  Associations, and while listening to different radios or watching varied TV channels,  or simply while discussing daily, I have felt a strong difficulty (or awkwardness) leading to a lack of communication... The conversation partners didn't understand one another. Sometimes, the conversation escalated because of this misunderstanding... I have often tried to understand the cause and have reached a conclusion that most of the times, many confusions came from imprecision on the terms used to clarify the points.

    The grammar and vocabulary of a language do have their rules and "vocabulary"  which cannot be replaced... Choosing "the right word", or knowing the part of speech, gender, number or function of a term used in a speech, using them rightly, should clarify the misunderstandings. 

     

                                                          

                                Colloquial: informal, familiar.   A cliché!

     

    I) VOCABULARY:

     A word/ a term    A phrase
     A set phrase   A colloquialism 
     A time honoured phrase  
       A catch phrase
     An idiomatic phrase   A cliché
     Terminology  To enrich/ increase your vocabulary 

     

                 

                  Prefixes   +             Root (word)                             +                     suffixes.

     

     To come from                   A word of Latin/ Greek origin                     
     A root   An abbreviation
     An acronym*  To abbreviate something  
     Obsolete         
      A neologism**
     A derivative   A set of initials
     A compound   To derive from
     A prefix    A suffix
     The meaning of a word  
      To mean
     To signify/ significance
      Meaningless
     Nonsense  A piece of nonsense

    * an acronym : INITIALS which are pronounced like an ordinary word. «UFO»: Unidentifed Flying Objects

    ** a neologism: a new word or phrase or an existing word used in a new sense.


    a portmanteau word= (brunch= breakfast + lunch)

    - What does it mean?

    - What do you call it?/ What's the name for it?

     

    II) GRAMMAR:

     A grammar (book)
      Ungrammatical
     A grammarian
      Gender
     Number
      To analyse
     Sentence analysis 
      A grammatical category  
     Countable
      Uncountable/ a mass noun
     A proper noun
      An antecedent
     To decline/ a declension  
      A sentence
     A clause  
       To conjugate/ a conjugation                         
     In the comparative
      In the superlative
     To qualify (for an adjective)                        
                            To modify (for an adverb)

     

     

                         

    Characteristics of a noun:

    - gender: masculine - feminine - neuter -

    - number: singular - plural -

    - concrete or abstract?// Common or Proper?

     

     

                      

     

    Categories of words in grammar:

    - a noun / an adjective / a determiner / a definite/ indefinite article / a pronoun  [ a personal pronoun/ a demonstrative / a relative / an interrogative / a possessive]

    - a verb (the first/ second/ third person).[the root/ the endings]

    - an adverb // a conjonction // a preposition

    - a gerund

    - a present participle (in -ing) / a past participle (- ed)

    Functions:

    - subject/ complement/ object

    Modes:

    - indicative / subjunctive/ conditional

    Tenses:

    - the present (tense)/ the future (tense)/ the past/ the perfect / the present perfect / the preterite/ the simple past/ the imperfect/ the past perfect/ the future perfect


     

                                

     

    This may look and sound a little tedious or, on the contrary, may seem really obvious to readers, yet, be very careful and you'll see that this isn't that simple. 

    Come on now, go for the test!

     

     



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