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What is the difference between positive and negative face

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A positive face is the desire to be viewed positively and to be apreciated and respected, wheras a negative face is the desure to be viewed as independant and autonomous

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What makes communication Sucessful

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mutual agreement
function of text is achieved
people understand what is being communicated
reach the target audience

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What is phonetics and phonology

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Phonetics- The study of sounds
Phonology- The study of how sounds are organised

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Syntax

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the study of sentence structure

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what is morphology and lexicology

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The study of the gramatical gravity of words and what they mean

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what is semantics

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The study of linguistic meaning

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What is discourse

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Discourse involves sequences of language that are larger than a sentence.

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What are presodic features

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Pitch, stress volume, tempo and intonation

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What is assimilation

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When a sound is modified because of the phonemes around it changes it to fit in
Like handbag turning into hambag

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What is vowel reduction

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When vowels are unstressed and are reduced to a schwa sound
what are you doing- what are ya doing

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What is elision

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when sounds are omitted
Fish and chips- fish n chips

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What is insertion

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when speakers add or insert sounds into a word
Going- Gowing

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What are function and content words

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Function words are necassary words for grammar such as pronouns, auxiliary verbs, Modal verbs, prepositions, determiners, conjunctions, and interjections

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What is a prefix, suffix and infix

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a prefix is a fix put at the start of a word
a suffix is a fix put at the end of the word
and a infix is a fix in the word

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What is an inflextion and derivation

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inflextional morephemes change the tense or the plural while derivational morphemes change the word class or changes the meaning of a word

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What are nouns

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Are names of people and things, including abstract things such as cat, Joanne table, Australia

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What are verbs

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Refer to actions, processes, states of being, etc such as run talk, swimming

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What are auxilary verds

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Provide grammatical information to the main verb, such as tenses, for example, to be, to have and to get

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what are modal verbs

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Indicate possibility, likelihood, or obligation and a pad. With a main verb. This can be Ken, must, should, might, could, May, Will, shell and would

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what are adjectives

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Descriptive words to modify nouns such as big, dangerous and funny

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what are adverbs

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Descriptive words, used for used to modify verbs by giving information about time, frequency or manner.

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what are preposition

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Often shown partial positions, such as at, in, on, under, to and from

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what are pronouns

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Are used in place of nouns often, to save repetition and to reference previous nouns

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what are conjunctions

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Link phrases and closest together, such as end, but, or

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what are determiners

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Give information about the nouns that follow them like which nouns they are talking about such as those ,this, my and your

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what are interjections

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Expressed strong feelings, such a surprise such as oh, yuck, gosh, and wow

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What is a fragment and simple sentence

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A simple sentence contains a single clause where, as a sentence fragment typically is used in informal or casual settings act as a sentence, even though they aren’t a complete clause

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What is a compound sentence

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Contains to a more independent clauses, joined by coordinating conjunction (Fanboys)

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what is a complex sentence

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Contains an independent clause and one and more dependent clauses, joined by a subordinating conjunction

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what is a compound complex sentences

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Contains two or more independent clauses in one or more dependent clauses

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what are root, bound and freemorphemes

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what is suffixations

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the process of adding a suffix to a word

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what is suffixations

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the process of adding a suffix to a word

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Blend

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A word or phrase that has been shortened by dropping one or more letters which have been replaced with an apostrophe

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Acronyms

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Words formed from the initials of other words, and pronounced as letters

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Initialisms

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Words formed from initials of other words and pronounced as a word

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Shortening

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Shortened versions of longer words

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Compounding words

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Words formed from the combination of two or more free mophemes

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Contractions

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Words formed from the contraction of two or more existing words

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Collocations

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Words that commonly go together

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Neologisms

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Newly coined words

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Commonisation

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Words formed when a proper noun becomes a common noun

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Declarative sentence

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Provides information observation, or statements

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Imperative sentence

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Give a direct order or instruction

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Interrogative sentence

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Are used to frame questions

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Exlamation sentence

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Are used to make exclamations

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What is a subject, object, complement and adverbial

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The subject is what/who the sentence is about, and direct object receives the verb, whereas the indirect object receives the direct object. A compliment word, phrase, or clause provides extra information about the subject object, but is not needed to complete an expression or to complete the meaning of the sentence. An adverbial phrase is optional, included that modifies the verb adverbials can be adverbs

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What is code switching

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process of shifting from one linguistic code (a language or dialect) to another, depending on the social context or conversational setting.

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Semantic fields/ domains

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A topic that is related to a set of words such as cooking would have baking frying and boiling

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Register

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the level of formality used

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what is standard and non standard english

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Non-standard English is an informal version of English. It usually contains slang and colloquialisms that wouldn’t be used in more formal or professional settings. It’s the opposite of standard English, which is defined by its use of proper spelling, grammar and punctuation.

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