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17 Cards in this Set
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Proper Nouns |
A name used for an individual person, place or organisation. Always starts with a capital letter. |
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Concrete Nouns |
Experienced through the five senses: Sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. If you cannot hear, see, taste, touch it's not a concrete noun. |
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Abstract Nouns |
Denoting and idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object. |
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Collective Nouns |
Count nouns that denote a group of individuals. |
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Adjectives |
Naming an attribute of a noun, such as sweet, red, or technical. |
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Verbs |
Used to describe an action, state, or occurrence. |
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Modal Verbs |
An auxiliary verb that expressed necessity or possibility. They include, must, shall, will, should, would, can, could, may, and might. They express grammatical meaning. |
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Lexical Verbs |
They include all verbs, except auxiliary verbs. Lexical verbs express action, state or other predicate meaning. |
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Discourse Features Of Formal Language |
Reinforcing social distance and authority Establishing expertise Promoting social harmony Clarifying, manipulating and obfuscating Use of titles Jargon Euphemisms |
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Discourse Features Of Informal Language |
Encouraging intimacy, solidarity and equality Maintaining positive face needs Promoting linguistic innovation Supporting in-group membership Inclusive language Slang Jargon Neologisms |
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Prefix |
An affix added to the front of a word. |
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Suffix |
An affix added to the end of a word. |
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Morphemes (Morphology) |
The smallest part of a word. The study of parts of words. |
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Lexemes |
Whole words. The study of words |
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Phonemes (Phonology) |
Sounds of words. The study of sounds. |
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Semantics |
The meaning of language. |
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Syntax |
The study of sentence structure. |
