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38 Cards in this Set
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Stance Adverbials
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Adverbials that express speaker judgments of the proposition expressed by the cluase: It DEFINITELY is a trend. (expresses certainty or doubt, actuality and reality, source of knowledge, limitation)
ex.: certainly, undoubtedly, maybe, in fact, actually, evidently, according to, from our perspective |
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Circumstancial Adverbials
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an adverbial that describes the circumstanes relating to the main clause, by answering such questions as where, when, how, why
ex.: a long way, up there, tomorrow night, |
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Linking Adverbials
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an adverbial that relates a clause to preceding (or following) clauses
ex: however, therefore |
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Process Adverbial
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ly verbs, adverbs of comparison, answer with what or with whom, by what means something is done, item use used for task (with), agent or causer of happening
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Contingency Adverbial
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answers "why", in order to "to clauses--to explain what we're doing", convey idea that contrasts (although it's been used, ), if clauses, results
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Degree Adverbial
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a bit, answers how much/many, intensifiers (very much, completely)
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Addition Adverbials
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too, only, also, as well
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Recipient Adverbials
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tel to whom an action was directed, for you, to the legislature, for wild mice, for our house
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Epistemic Adverbials
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certainty and doubt, actuality and reality, source of knowledge, limitation, viewpoint or perspective, imprecision (like, sort of)
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Attitude/Style
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Fortunately, most surprising, hopefully, honestly, more simply put, if i may say so
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Cleft
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grammatical structure with information broken into two clauses to provide extra focus to one piece of information.
It-cleft: It was his voice that held me. Wh-cleft: What I want is something to eat. |
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Preface
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A noun phrase functioning as a dislocated peripheral element, paced before the subject of a clause: This little shop--it's lovely.
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Verb inversion
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verb before subject
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Operator Inversion
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subject preceded by operator rather than by main verb or full phrase:
Not before in our history HAVE so many strong influences UNITED to produce so large a disaster. |
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Fronting
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moving a clause element to initial position: THAT I also like.
This I do not understand Some things you never do. Why he came this way, I don't know. |
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Noun Tag
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a definite noun phrase shifted to a position after the main clause: Has it got double doors, that shop?
Did they have any, the kids? |
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Conversion
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Cheat (verb) to cheat (noun)
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Inflectional Morphology
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Expresses grammatical meaning or tense: adding an s, es, ing (come to came), est
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Derived nouns
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able to ability
perplex to perplexity ( one word derived to another) |
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Compounding
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gunfire
supermarket |
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Situational reference
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That banana is going to get rotten.
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Generic reference
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Bananas are healthier than donuts.
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Anaphoric reference
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Do you have bananas? Yeah, they're over there. (reference earlier in convo)
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Cataphoric reference
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The bananas you bought last week are pretty gross now. (referenced later in convo)
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Activity Verb
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buy, go take, action!
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Communication verbs
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speaking and writing activities: tell, shout, write
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Mental verbs
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mental states: know, remember
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Causative verbs
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help, let, allow, require
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Free combination
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makes sense (put down the bag)
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Phrasal
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turn on
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Phrasal plus prepositional
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look forward to
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Lexical verb
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main verbs
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Auxiliary verb
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verbs associated with tense, modality, (have taken, was seen, may go)
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Modal verb
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can, should, might
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Operators
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make sentence negative
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How many clauses are there?
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count MAIN verbs
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Dependent Clauses
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The movie THEY SHOWED US was boring.
I'm glad HE DOESN'T HAVE ANOTHER SISTER LIKE HER. Why don't you get the one YOU LIKE THE MOST. The plan is TO TALK WITH FRED TOMORROW NIGHT. |
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Extrapositioning
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"It" at the beginning of the sentence
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