Termanology Flashcards

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Modal auxiliary verbs

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Possibility, certainty (will, would, may)

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Epistemic modality

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Sentences/ phrases that express possibility, probability, certainty

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Deontic modality

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Sentences/ phrases that express necessity and obligation

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Idiom

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Phrase that doesn’t mean it’s literal meaning (pull yourself together)

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Parenthesis

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Added as an explanation to the sentence, marked by commas or brackets or dashes

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Antithesis

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Juxtaposition, contrasting ideas right next to eachother

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Ideology

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A belief that a group holds

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Polysemic

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A word with multiple meanings

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Denotation

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Dictionary definition

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Lexical field

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Main subject of the text

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Collocation

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Multiple words often found together and have a distinct meaning

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Semantic field

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Pattern of words with similar meanings

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Compound

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Word formed from two other words

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Valediction

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Saying farewell

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stative verbs

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Actions that we cant see, exists beyond physical state.

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dynamic verbs

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physical actions that can be seen.

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proper nouns

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names, usually begins with capital letters

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common nouns

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all nouns except proper nouns

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concrete nouns

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things that exist physically, objects that we can see and touch

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abstract noun

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doesn’t exist physically, ideas, feelings

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collective nouns

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group of animals, people, objects

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superlatives adjectives

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adjectives generally formed by adding the -est inflection

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comparative adjectives

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generally formed by adding -er inflection

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attributive adjective

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adjectives positioned after a noun, describes

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predicative adjective
adjective comes before the noun, pre-modifies the noun
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transitive verbs
must be followed by an object in which the verb happens to
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intransitive verbs
describes position or motion
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auxiliary verbs
helps the verbs, has, do, be, did
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modal verbs
expresses likelihood
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the
the definite article
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determiners
the, a, that, this
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grammatical cohesion
using adverbs at the start of paragraphs or sentences to link the previous information, similarly, furthermore
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lexical cohesion
Words in the discourse relate to each other throughout
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prepositions
shows relationship between words e.g., time, distance, direction
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infinitive
normally follows to, base form of a verb
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active voice
subject is the main focus and performs the action
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passive voice
object is the main focus and something happens to it
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Accommodation
Where a speaker adapts to another's accent, dialect
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Adjacency pairs
Pair of utterances in a conversation that go together
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Affordance
Language and behavioural choices provided by technology
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Agenda setting
Speaker sets up the main topic of conversation
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Analogical overextension
Associating objects that aren't related but have one or more features in common
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Anchored relationship
Online relationship but the speakers know eachother irl
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Article
Determiner a and the