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Active voice

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  • SVO structure
  • subject is the focus
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What is a bound morpheme?

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A prefix or suffix that is bound to a word
- e.g unlock

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What is an auxiliary verb?

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Verb that determines certainty

  • “I do believe Pete has finished the book.”
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What is an adverbial clause?

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A dependent clause introduced by a subordinating Junction.
- After, since, as, because

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What does gradable mean?

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Adjectives and adverbs that can be compared.

coldest, warmest,

Suffix (est)

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What is anaphoric reference?

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Using a noun, instead of a pronoun to point backwards to an earlier noun.

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What is a free morpheme?

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A word that can have a bound word against it and still make sense

  • eg. Un(lock)
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What’s an abstract noun?

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A noun that refers to an emotional or metaphorical thing. Not physical.

  • feelings
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What is a blend?

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Coining of words

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Coinage

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New words created

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What is a concrete noun?

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Physical thing

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What is colloquialism?

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Informal words or slang for a certain audience

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Collective noun

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A noun that refers to a group

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What is a neologism?

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Slang modern day words through technology e.g

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Monosyllabic

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One syllable

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What is vocative

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addresses Someone directly
“Come over here John!”

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What is a Stative verb?

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Verbs that express states of being
- desire , wish, dominate

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Exophoric reference

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Linguistically referencing wider texts

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Anaphoric reference

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Using a pronoun instead of addressing the name again

“Mums so grateful, I love her”

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What is asyndetic?

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Listing without the use of conjunction

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What is cataphoric reference?

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Pronoun is said before the name

“I adore her, Juliette is so faithful”

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What is syndetic?

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List using a conjunction

23
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What is passive voice?

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OVS Structure
Verb has stress
Distance between reader and writer

24
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What is post modification?

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Lexical terms following at the front of a phrase

25
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What is progressive

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Aspect made up of +img

“Touching”
“Beginning”

26
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What is an abstract noun?

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Concepts that aren’t physical only mental

(Emotions)

27
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What is asynchronous?

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When the response is far away from the actual response

(Like a tweet responded years later)

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What is bald-on-record?

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When a speaker is extremely abrupt often using direct address

“Sit down!”

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What is a compound complex sentence?

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A sentence that has three or more clauses

1 subordinate
1 coordinate

30
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What is conditioning?

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Positive reinforcement

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What is cantentive?

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Chain like structure of a sentence like “but… you… like”

32
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What is child-directed speech?

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Speech directed to a child

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What is collocation?

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Two words that are bound in phrase
“Fish and chips”

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Comparative adjective

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Adding suffix “er” to provide comparison

“Faster car”

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Complex sentence

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Has two or more clauses
“John has a bakery and grey hair”

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What is a copular verb?

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Verb that takes a compliment (is, was, are)

37
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What is diachronic change?

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Refers to historical language changing over a period

38
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Dispreferred response

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A response that is unexpected

“Dinners ready, Charlotte”

“I’ve already eaten!”

39
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What is exophoric reference?

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Referencing to extra context

40
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What is covert prestige?

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Prestige of a non-standard dialect

41
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What are prosodics?

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How we use language, stress words and change intonation

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