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Lexis

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Words

Giant sparkly happy

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Noun phrase

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A group of words that describe a noun -

The happy man

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Concrete noun

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A physical thing

Table

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Proper noun

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A name of a person/ place

London,Sinead

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Abstract noun

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A concept / idea

Love sadness

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Collective noun

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A collection/ crowd

Group heard

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Modifier

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Changes noun

Sensational,terrible

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Determiner

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Determines noun

The, a, an

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Compound word

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Two words that make one

She-hulk, ant - man

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Indefinite article

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Word for ‘a’

Some

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Intensifier

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Makes modifier even stronger

Very,really

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Pronoun

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Word that stands in place of a noun

‘Sinead’s ‘

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Possessive pronoun

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Owned by someone

( my, mine , his’

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Relational verbs

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Being

( james was upset ‘

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Action verbs

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Happening

‘ the peach SWELLED’

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Cognition perception

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Seeing feeling

‘James FELT upset’

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Speech verbs

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Speaking verbs

‘Aunt sponge SHOUTED’

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Pre - positional phrase

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Position / relation to

by her , next to her

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Benignly

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Good intentions / harmless

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Malign

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Bad intentions / harmful

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Negation

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The contradiction or denial of somthing

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Present simple

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It happens now

‘I smile’

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Present continuous

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It’s still happening

‘I am smiling’

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Present perfect

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It happens commonly

I have smiled

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Present perfect continuous

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It started in the past and has continued up to the present moment

(I have been smiling)

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Past simple

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It happens then

I smiled

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Past continuous

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It happened for a while then, probably when something else was happening

(I was smiling)

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Past perfect

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It happened before some other action or time in the past

I had smiled

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Past perfect continuous

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It started in the past and continued to another point in the past

(I had to be smiling)

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Foregrounding

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An attention grabbing strategy

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Parallelism

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The formation of patterns

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Deviation

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The breaking of patterns

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Interrogative sentence

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Question sentence

What are you doing?

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Exclamatory sentence

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Loud exclamative

What are you doing!

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Imperative sentence

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Command sentence

Go away.

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Indicative/ declarative sentence

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Factual / no special information

The pig walked.

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Free indirect style

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3rd person narrative where the narrator adopts the voice of the character.

(The bond text) could he do it?

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Dynamic verbs

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Verbs of action / movement

To stand to jump

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Stative verbs

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Verbs of fixed position

Feeling being having to own

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Auxiliary verbs primary

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Used to create new tense

To be to have to do

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Auxiliary verbs model

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Affect meaning liklihood, permission, ablity , obligation

Can ,could, would, should , shall , must , ought, may , might

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Negation

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Any word that connotes a negative

No, not , neither , nor

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Frame narration

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Story framed in another story

Narrator telling story in story

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Disclosure

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Line of argument

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Systematic linguistic devices

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In a logical system

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Epigraph

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Is a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter usually intended to suggest its theme

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Anarchy

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Chaos / absence of rule

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Analepsis

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Flashback

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Allusion

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Reference to another text

Literary reference

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Focaliser

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The character’s veiwpoint is focus in the text

James bond

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