terminology Flashcards
concrete nouns
these are thing that you can touch like concrete see smell hear or taste other examples include chair ,keyboard money water
abstract nouns
things that you cannot touch see smell hear or taste
e.g beauty bravery anger freedom love
normally emotions
proper nouns
name a specific person place organisation or thing and always begin with a capital letter Shirley Buckingham Palace
collective nouns
a groups of things
a gaggle of geese
an anthology of poems
compound nouns
when two or more nouns are joined together to make a collective noun hose pipe,football sister-in-law,stepmother
countable nouns
things that you can count so you can make them plural boys chairs
uncountable nouns
these are nouns that you cannot count and they do not have a plural form
water sugar money fire
what is a simple sentence
a subject and a verb and can be long
why do writers use simple sentences
to emphasise a particular idea
can also hook a reader into the story and invites them to move on
minor sentence
when there is no verb but you can still understand the meaning of the sentence
im going now.home.to bed.
compound sentences
two sentences joined together with a fanboy conjunction
what are the FANBOY conjunctions
for,and,nor,but,or,yet,so
there are only 7
there is also usually a comma before the conjunction
i wasted time ,and now time doth waste me
complex sentences
if you use more conjunctions than the fanboys then this is a complex sentence
although,eventhough
as if as muchas before even if
AND THERE IS NO COMMA BEFORE THE CONJUNCTION
i am going home because i am tired
what is the exception for commas in complex sentences
however if a complex sentence starts with a conjunction then it needs a comma
although it was late, she decided to phone her friend.
in your own writing what should you do
create an overwhelming sentece to refelct how the narrators feeling lethargic and tired to show intended effect to the examiner
how else can you vary your own sentence structure
by placing the subordinate clause at the beginning and end
shirley ,thinking complex thoughts, walked into school.
this is known as BRACKETING COMMAS.
or double subordinate clauses.
shirley walked into school,having recovered from a common cold,thinking common thoughts.
cos the others do not make sense on their own
what is comma splicing
using commas to join complete sentences together
the boy walked into his school, he did some work and then he left
it actually wrong because the commas is separating two separate sentences a simple sentence and a compound sentence and only full stops do this therefore this is not the commas job
what should you do at the end of your creative writing
read through putting in commas in the right place
the commas should not divide complete sentences-full stops do this
why do writers sue complex sentences
the is more of an opportunity to give rich and descriptive imagery
conjunctive adverbs
they cannot join sentences un they are used with partuicular punctuaion marks
however ,furthermore
and you can only use a conjunctive adverb to join two sentences if you use a semi colon and then a comma
the big cats are frightening;accordingly, i kept my distance
i had an ice cream;meanwhile my friend eat her sandwich
also another way
at 5 i was supposed to eat my breakfast.however, i was still getting ready.
also another way to include in you DESCRIPTIVE WRITING
was that at 5 i was supposed to eat my breakfast.i was, however,still getting ready
using a BRACKETING COMMA
OR
at 5 i was supposed to be eating my breakfast .i was still getting reading,however.
but somtimes you do not need the comma
shirley worked all day.she THEN went home
with your paragraphs what should you do
indent do not leave a line
when should you change paragraphs
when there is a new subject
what are power paragraphs
simple sentence as a paragraph to emphaise the strength of your feelings or you could be stressing a point or emphaisiing a strong emotion.
how can you craft paragraph length to get high marks
if your writing a story about a mad woman then as t=she gets more mad craft the paragraph length so that they get shorter and shorter as she becomes more delusional to delibately emphasie it to the examiners to contrast to the long paragraphs
dashes
you do not need a space between a dash and the words as well as it being longer than a hyphen
they are like brackets but the dash emphasise the bit in the middle
she is lazy—and quite smelly—for a girl.
active sentence
the subject always does the verb
the girl smiled.
the dog chased to ball
why would a writer use an active sentence
they are dynamic they speak of action and can make you sound firm decisive and strong or they can add passion and strength to your feelings
passive sentences
they focus on the object
the main use is when THE SUBJECT IS UNIMPORTANT OR THE READER HAD=S NO KNOWLEDGE AS TO WHO THE SUBJECT IS
the party was arranged for the next following day
it is not important to know who the party is for therefore the writer has been deliberately vague.
