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What are active verbs?

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Where the person/thing doing the action is the subject of the verb

E.g the MINISTER has issued an apology

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What are adverbs?

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Words that usually describe verbs and often have ‘ly’ at the end

E.g quickly

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What are passive verbs?

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Where the thing that has been done is the subject of the verb

E.g an APOLOGY has been issued by the minister

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What are pronouns?

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Words that take the place of nouns

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What are the 7 types of pronouns?

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Demonstrative 
Personal
Possessive 
Relative
Reflexive 
Indefinite
Interrogative
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What are possessive pronouns?

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Pronouns that show possession i.e hers

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What are reflexive pronouns?

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Pronouns that end in ‘self’ and ‘selves’

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What are demonstrative pronouns?

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Pronouns that have a sense of pointing at something

E.g this, that

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What are indefinite pronouns?

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Pronouns that don’t refer to specific people or things

E.g no one, anything

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What are relative pronouns?

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They are linking words in a sentence

E.g a city THAT HAS people

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What are interrogative pronouns?

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Pronouns used when asking a question , the 4 pronouns used are Who, whose, which, what

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What are conjunctions?

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Words that join together words in a sentence

E.g and, but

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What are prepositions?

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Point out how one thing relates to another examples are prepositions that relate to position (at,on) direction (to,past) and time (before)

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What are determiners?

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Words that come before nouns

E.g the

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What is a definite article?

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The

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What is an indefinite article?

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A

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What are possessive and demonstrative determiners?

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Possessive determiners are pronouns such as ‘hers’ where as demonstrative determiners are ‘this, that and these’

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What are the 3 types of sentence?

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Compound, complex and simple

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What is ellipsis?

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When a word is missed out in a sentence

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What are relative clauses?

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Clauses that usually include pronouns, who whose, which or that

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What are adverbial clauses?

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Clauses that explain when, where or why something happened

E.g before, because

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What is a simple sentence?

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A sentence with one clause

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What is a compound sentence?

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Two or more simple sentences joined together by a coordinating conjunction

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What is a complex sentence?

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Where one or more of the clauses is less important that the main clause

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What are the 4 sentence functions?
Declarative Interrogative Imperative Exclamative
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What is a declarative sentence?
A sentence that's a statement
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What is an interrogative sentence?
A sentence that's a question
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What is an imperative sentence?
A sentence that gives instructions
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What is an exclamatory sentence?
A sentence with an explanation mark
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What is a morpheme?
The smallest unit of language that has a meaning or function (can be either a letter or group of letters) E.g er , ly , a
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What are affixes?
Morphemes that have been added to the begging or end of the word. An affix at the beginning of the word is a prefix and an affix at the end is a suffix
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What is a free morpheme?
Morphemes that can stand alone as words and where their structure can't be broken down E.g orange
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What is a bound morpheme?
Morphemes the can't stand alone and have to be attached to another morpheme E.g er, un
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What are derivational affixes?
They can be used through the use of prefixes,suffixes or both
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What are derivational suffixes?
They usually change the word class of the word they are added to
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What is a denotation?
The meaning of a word
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What are connotations?
Associations that a word has E.g winter - cold, dark nights
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What is lexis?
Vocabulary
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What is a lexical field?
A group of words that link by having associated meanings E.g football, half time
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What is an example if a hypernym and a hyponym?
Hypernym - flower (general) | Hyponym - daisy (specific)
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What are synonyms?
World that have similar meanings E.g talk, chat
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What are antonyms?
Word meanings that are opposite E.g hot, cold
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What is a metaphor?
Describing something as if it is actually something else
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What is a idiom?
An expression that can't be understood from the meaning of the individual words in the expression E.g face the music
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What are collocations?
Groups of words that are commonly found next to each other E.g it's a long way
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What is a phoneme?
The smallest unit of sound in a language E.g A
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What are prosodic features?
Non-verbal features of speech such as tone and pitch
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What are auxiliary verbs?
A verb places in front of a main verb E.g can
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What is an example of an adjacency pair?
A question followed by an answer
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What is convergence and divergence?
Convergence- When two peoples speech styles move closer to each other Divergence- when two peoples speech styles move away from each other
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What is ellipsis?
When words in a sentence are missing E.g 'might be' rather than 'I might be'
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What is Elision?
Missing vowel or syllable in a word E.g 'gunna' rather than 'going to'
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What is idiolect?
A unique form of language used by a single person
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What is euphemism?
Using a mild expression rather than an offensive one E.g 'sugar' instead of 'shit'
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What is intertextuality?
When a text makes reference to another text
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What are semantics?
The study of the word meanings
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What are model auxiliary verbs?
Words that can be used to sound more polite or change the meaning of something E.g must, can, should
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What are comparative adjectives?
Adjectives that have 'er' added to them and can be formed when 'more' is put in front of them E.g hotter, more beautiful
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What are superlative adjectives?
Adjectives that have 'est' added to them or can be formed when 'most' is put in front of them E.g hottest, most beautiful
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What are adjectives?
Describing words that are used to describe nouns
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What is a noun?
Naming words for people, places and objects
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What are concrete nouns?
Refer to things that physically exist E.g chair
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What are collective nouns?
Refer to groups if people, animals or objects E.g flock of sheep
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What are the 3 primary verbs?
Be Have Do
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What are abstract nouns?
Things that don't physically exist E.g feelings, love
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What are verbs?
Words that refer to either physical or mental actions E.g jump, that 'seems' unfair
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What are proper nouns?
Usually begin with capital letter and refer to people and places E.g Dom, Paris
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What are common nouns?
Refer to types of people and places, less specific E.g man, city
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What are the 5 types of nouns?
``` Proper nouns Common nouns Concrete nouns Abstract nouns Collective nouns ```
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What are auxiliary verbs?
Verbs that are out in front of main verbs E.g I 'must have' knew
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What is colloquialism?
Informal language E.g arse
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What is phatic talk?
Like small talk E.g 'hi, you okay?' 'Yes thanks'
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What are the 4 functions of language?
Referential function Expressive function Transactional function Interactional function
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What is the referential function of language?
Giving information
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What is the expressive function of language?
Expressing feelings
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What is the transactional function?
Emphasis on getting something
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What is the interactional function?
Social relationship shown
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What is inexplicit?
When we don't explain ourselves in detail
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What is tenor?
The tone or relationship between the author and the reader and how it's created
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What are themes?
Ideas and images in the text?
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What is personification?
When non-human things are given human qualities E.g the trees danced in the wind
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What is pre-modification?
When descriptive words come before the thing they are describing
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What is post-modification?
When descriptive words come after the thing they are describing
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What are examples of paralinguistic features?
Body language, laughing
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What is back channeling?
Making noises such as 'hm' to show the person you're listening
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What is the mode of a text?
If it is written or spoken
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What is a tagged question?
A question added onto a statement
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What is GAPS when analysing a text?
Genre Audience Purpose Subject

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