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English

Term Guidance Example

as French, Spanish or Italian), He leaves tomorrow. [present-
English has no distinct ‘future tense’ tense leaves]
form of the verb comparable with its He is going to leave tomorrow.
present and past tenses.
[present tense is followed by going
to plus the infinitive leave]

GPC See grapheme-phoneme
correspondences.
grapheme A letter, or combination of letters, The grapheme t in the words ten,
that corresponds to a single bet and ate corresponds to the
phoneme within a word. phoneme /t/.

The grapheme ph in the word
dolphin corresponds to the
phoneme /f/.
grapheme- The links between letters, or The grapheme s corresponds to
phoneme combinations of letters (graphemes) the phoneme /s/ in the word see,
correspondences and the speech sounds (phonemes) but…
that they represent.
…it corresponds to the phoneme
In the English writing system, /z/ in the word easy.
graphemes may correspond to
different phonemes in different
words.

head See phrase.

homonym Two different words are homonyms if Has he left yet? Yes – he went
they both look exactly the same through the door on the left.
when written, and sound exactly the The noise a dog makes is called a
same when pronounced.
bark. Trees have bark.
homophone Two different words are hear, here
homophones if they sound exactly some, sum
the same when pronounced.

infinitive A verb’s infinitive is the basic form I want to walk.
used as the head-word in a I will be quiet.
dictionary (e.g. walk, be).

Infinitives are often used:
 after to
 after modal verbs.

inflection When we add -ed to walk, or change dogs is an inflection of dog.
mouse to mice, this change of went is an inflection of go.
morphology produces an inflection better is an inflection of good.
(‘bending’) of the basic word which
has special grammar (e.g. past tense

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