Terminology

Question 1

Synthetic personalisation

Answer 1

Using personalised language which isn’t necessarily personal (eg big companies sending “hi Paul”)

Question 2

Primary auxiliary verb

Answer 2

Verb which comes before the main verb eg: am, was, is

Question 3

Cohesive devices

Answer 3

Connects up one bit of language to the next (and now I will talk about… furthermore…. Firstly…)

Question 4

Implicature

Answer 4

Implying something (your homework was interesting…) was it?

Question 5

Ellipsis

Answer 5

Elliptical sentence is one where words are missing (non standard) eg: just done that! You seen it?

Question 6

Temporal adverbial

Answer 6

Chunk of word describing when a word happened (next Saturday afternoon at 3)

Question 7

Diexis

Answer 7

Content dependant speech
(Deictical references)

Question 8

Copular verb

Answer 8

Verb ‘to be’ when a main verb
“Aren’t”

Question 9

Assonance

Answer 9

Repetition of vowel at start of words

Question 10

Collocation

Answer 10

Words usually expected to be together (on the side of…)