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THE ONTARIO CURRICULUM, GRADES 9 AND 10: NATIVE LANGUAGES
Locative. An affix attached to a noun or verb that indicates location and relationship. See also bound locative, cislocative, and translocative.
Media communication skills. Skills related to the use of electronic devices such as tape recorders, video equipment, computers, etc.
Media works. Works in print or on television, radio, the World Wide Web, film, video, etc.
Modal (Iroquoian). Of or denoting the mood of a verb.
Native language portfolio. Audio and/or video tapes and written material collected or produced by a student.
Negation. A process through which mean- ing is contradicted by using affixes.
Noun. A person, place, thing, or abstraction. Number. The distinction between singular,
dual, and plural elements.
Objective verb (Iroquoian). A verb that refers to the receiver or goal of an action; indicates that the subject has little control over the action. See also subjective verb.
Obviative (Algonquian). A suffix added to a noun or verb stem that makes a clear dis- tinction between two or more remote third persons. See also proximate (Algonquian).
Open-ended situations. Situations in which opinions are expressed and personal questions are answered, e.g., interviews, impromptu dialogues, presentations, videos, etc.
Oral language structure. A verbal structure used in speaking.
Orthography. An orderly system of writing in which a symbol or character is associated with each syllable.
Particle. A short uninflected word or part of speech, such as an article, a preposition, an interjection, a conjunction, or an adverb.
Passive voice. A form of the verb indicating that the subject of the sentence is receiving the action. See also active voice.
Pejorative. A suffix that indicates that the noun to which it is attached is unattractive or undesirable.
Person. The form of a pronoun and verb that distinguishes the speaker, the person
or thing spoken to, or the person or thing spoken of; e.g., first person, second person, third person, and third person proximate and obviative.
Plural. A noun, pronoun, or verb form indi- cating “more than one”.
Pluralizer (Iroquoian). A suffix that indicates plurality.
Possessive. A word, prefix, or suffix that indicates possession.
Prefix. A letter or combination of letters added to a noun, pronoun, or verb to modify the meaning; also called pre-nouns and pre- verbs in the Algonquian languages.
Pre-pronominal prefix. A prefix that pre- cedes a pronominal prefix.
Preterit (Algonquian). A form of a noun or verb showing action in the absolute past. See also decessive suffix.
Prohibitive imperative (Algonquian). A verb expressing negative commands or requests.
Pronominal prefix. A prefix that occurs on most nouns and on all verbs; such pre- fixes carry the meaning conveyed by pro- nouns.
Pronoun - demonstrative. A word that may be used instead of a noun or noun phrase to indicate “which”; e.g., this, that, these and those.
Pronoun - indefinite. A word that may be used instead of a noun or noun phrase to indicate a vague “who” or “what”; e.g., some- one, anyone, no one, something, anything, and nothing.
Pronoun - interrogative. A word that may be used instead of a noun or noun phrase to introduce a question; e.g., who, whom, which, or what.