Terminology

Question 1

Interrogative

Answer 1

Asking a question

Eg have you started?

Question 2

Imperative

Answer 2

Giving a command

Eg Get started

Question 3

Exclamatory

Answer 3

Expressing a strong feeling

Eg you haven’t even started!

Question 4

Proper noun

Answer 4

Lucy/London/west road

Question 5

Commons nouns

Answer 5

Paper/printer/house

Question 6

Abstract noun

Answer 6

Happiness/thoughts/feelings

Question 7

Collective nouns

Answer 7

Group/herd/collection

Question 8

First person pronoun

Answer 8

I/me/we/us

Question 9

Second person pronouns

Answer 9

You are

Question 10

Third person pronouns

Answer 10

He/she/it/they

Question 11

Impersonal pronoun

Answer 11

It

Question 12

Preposition

Answer 12

Show place or time

Before/after/across/near

Question 13

Adjacency pairs

Answer 13

Two part exchanges

Eg question and answer

Question 14

Collocation

Answer 14

Words which predictably go together

Ladies and gentlemen

Question 15

Compound words

Answer 15

Words combined to form a new expression

Eg goose and bump goosebump

Question 16

Connotations

Answer 16

Overtones or implications of a word

Question 17

Contractions

Answer 17

When words are combined to form a single, shortened word

We have = we’ve

Question 18

Deictic expression

Answer 18

Cannot be understood unless the context of the utterance is known

Question 19

Diminutive suffixes

Answer 19

ette or ess’ placed at end of words to make them feminine/small
Eg caravanette

Question 20

Dysphemism

Answer 20

A harsh or impolite expression used instead of a mild one

Question 21

Minimal response

Answer 21

Mmm or yeah

Question 22

Marked terms

Answer 22

The need the gender highlighted
Unmarked presume the gender already
Marked term lady doctor
Unmarked term doctor presumes its male

Question 23

Rhetorical question

Answer 23

Question raised to make a point

Not to be taken literally

Question 24

Declarative

Answer 24

Making a statement

Eg I have started