Glossary of VCE English Language

Question 1

Aboriginal Australian Englishes

Answer 1

varieties of language used by Indigenous people, ranging from very close to Standard Australian
English to something close to a creole

Question 2

Accent

Answer 2

a manner of pronunciation which marks speakers as belonging to an identifiable category, such
as geographical, ethnic, social class or generation
* Australian accents can be classified as Broad, General or Cultivated
* there are some regional, age-related and social differences in the accents of Australian English

Question 3

Acronym Or Initialism

Answer 3

formed from the first or first few letters of each of the words in a phrase
* acronyms are pronounced as a word, have no full stops or spaces, and are generally uppercase
e.g. NATO, NASA

Question 4

Active Voice

Answer 4

in which the subject is typically the person or thing performing the action and which can take
a direct object
* the most common category of grammatical voice in English
e.g. She loved him (active) as opposed to the passive form He was loved by her passive voice