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What is a personal text?
A personal text is related to a person’s life, including facts, feelings, or ideas.
What are the main types of personal texts?
The main types of personal texts are letters (including emails), diaries, and agendas.
What do personal texts usually do?
Personal texts usually ‘tell things’ and can be considered narrative texts.
What language is typically used in personal texts?
Personal texts are usually written in colloquial language.
How does the structure of a letter typically begin?
A letter typically begins with the date, greeting, and receiver.
What is the structure of a letter?
A letter includes the date, greeting, message, and farewell.
What is the structure of an email?
An email includes a receiver’s email address, subject, greeting, message, and farewell.
What is a diary?
A diary is a text written daily or almost daily, noting important events and personal reflections.
What is a blog?
A blog is a website where articles or posts of interest to the author are published online.
What are the similarities between a blog and a traditional diary?
Both can contain personal reflections and experiences.
What are the differences between a blog and a traditional diary?
A blog is public and can be read by others, while a diary is private.
What is the function of a direct object (DO)?
The direct object provides information to a verb that requires its presence to define its meaning.
What is the function of an indirect object (IO)?
The indirect object provides information about who the recipient of the verbal action is.
What is a circumstantial complement (CC)?
The circumstantial complement provides additional information regarding place, time, mode, quantity, cause, etc.
What are arguments in a sentence?
Arguments are complements necessary for the verb to complete its meaning.
What are adjuncts in a sentence?
Adjuncts are complements that are not required by the verb and provide explanatory or circumstantial information.
What do positional phrases perform?
Positional phrases indicate the location or position of something in a sentence.
Identify an example of a sentence with a direct object.
I will give Macarena the news.
‘the news’ is the direct object.
What is an intransitive sentence?
An intransitive sentence does not require a direct object to complete its meaning.
What are adjuncts in a sentence?
Adjuncts are complements that provide additional information but are not required by the verb.
What is a personal text?
A personal text relates to a person’s life, such as a letter, diary, or agenda.
What is an epistolary novel?
An epistolary novel is a work written in the form of letters or correspondence.
What is the structure of a direct complement (CD)?
The structure of a direct complement (CD) refers to information regarding place, time, mode, quantity, cause, etc.
What does a circumstantial complement (CO) provide?
A circumstantial complement provides information to delimit the meaning of a transitive verb.
