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TKT Module 1 Revision: Grammar

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Grammar

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The parts of the answer which are underlined are things you should know.
Examples are in black.

What is the difference between grammatical form and grammatical function?
Give one example of each.

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What is the difference between content words and grammar or function words?
Give two examples of different sorts of each type.
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Define the term 'proper noun' and give two examples.
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What is the difference between mass and count nouns?
Give two examples of each.
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What is the difference between main or lexical verbs and auxiliary verbs?
Give two examples of each type.
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What is the difference between primary and modal auxiliary verbs?
Give two examples in clauses of each type.
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What is a copular verb?
Give three examples of different copular verbs in clauses.
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Give an example of a predicative and an attributive adjective use.
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There are 5 sorts of adverbs.  What are they?  Give an example of each in a clause.
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Identify the words in black in this sentence and explain the difference in meaning:
A car arrived at the hotel and the driver came in.
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Identify the words in black in this sentence and explain the difference in meaning:
Those cakes are delicious but so is this ice cream.
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Identify the words in black in this sentence and explain what function they have:
They have three children and lots of pets including several birds and a few fish but they have no cats.
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Identify the word class of the words in black in this sentence and say what is unusual about the word order:
He has nothing useful to do and must find something interesting to fill his time.
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What do prepositions do?
What are the two main kinds?
Give two examples of each.
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Identify the word in black in this sentence and explain what function it has:
She saw the accident and telephoned the police.
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Identify the word in black in this sentence and explain what function it has:
She took the car before I could stop her.
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Identify the tense and the aspect of the verb in this sentence:
They were out walking all morning.
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Identify the tense and the aspect of the verb in this sentence:
They will have had dinner by now.
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Identify:
   the noun phrases
   the verb phrase
   the adjective phrases
   the adverb phrase
   the prepositional phrase
in this sentence:
My dear old cat frequently likes to lie lazily in the warm sunshine.
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the Module 1 revision index grammar lexis
phonology functions receptive skills
productive skills motivation exposure to language and focus on form
the role of error differences between L1 and L2 learning learner characteristics
learner needs presentation techniques and introductory activities types of activities and tasks
assessment types and tasks