CSAD 336 School-Age Language Development Pt 2

for exam 4

homonym

two words that have the same spelling but different meanings; involves one being used in the wrong context

derivational morphemes

mastered in school-age; involve prefixes and suffixes; involve a change in syntactic class

gerund

a verb ending in -ing that functions as a noun in a sentence; derivational; if you can replace the word with “it” then it is a gerund

past-participle tense

a grammatical morpheme; occurs when there is a to be verb + past tense -ed (e.g., she was supposed to go)

dependent clauses

cannot stand by themselves and do not express a complete thought; include a subordinating conjunction + subject + predicate (verb and all other crap)

example of dependent clause

unless you want to go

what does it mean for sentence to be complex

it has more than one clause

predicate

consists of a verb and all the stuff after it

relative clause

adds information about a noun; can follow a subject or it can follow the object

clause

consists of a subject and predicate (verb)

conjunctive adverbs

connect two independent clauses