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- 1Analytically sentenceHas three points:
1: Linguistic description
2: Brief quote
3: Comment on meaning/effects. - 2AdjectivesDescribe nouns.
There are four types of adjectives:
1: Referential
2: Evaluative
3: Comparative
4. Superlative. - 3Referential Adjective:Giving factual information about a noun.
Eg:
a blue car
a fast car - 4Evaluative Adjective:Giving an opinion about a noun.
Eg:
a brilliant film. - 5Comparative Adjective:Used to express a comparison.
Eg:
smaller
hotter
more intelligent. - 6Superlative Adjective:Used to express a minimum or maximum.
Eg:
smallest
most intelligent. - 7AdverbsThere are three types of adverbs:
1: Circumstance
2: Degree
3: Sentence. - 8Circumstance AdverbsTell you how the verb is done.
Eg:
before the exam she revised conscientiously
she played the piano melodically. - 9Degree Adverb:Tell you the extent of an adjective.
Eg:
Syntax is extremely difficult.
That film was terribly frightening. - 10Sentence Adverbs:There are two types: Conjunct and Distjunct.
Conjunct: join sentences together
Eg: more over, nevertheless.
Distjunct: tell the the writers attitude to the rest of the sentence.
Eg: unfortunately the game was cancelled. - 11ContractionIn spoken mode words are often contracted together.
Eg: she will- she'll
he would- he'd - 12Discourse MarkerIn spoken mode, discourse markers indicate a new stage is about to begin.
Eg: ok, right, well. - 13Deixis/ Deictic featuresContent dependent.
Eg: A. She put it there.
In this utterance the listener may not know what 'it' was; where 'there' was. - 14Ellipsis:This is the omission of words, phrases in English.
Eg: A: Good film last night
B: Not bad. - 15Filler:Non- fluency feature
Eg: erm
er
urm
like. - 16False Start:Non- fluency feature.
- 17Imperatives:Commands.
- 18Interrogatives:Questions.
- 19Minor Sentences:A sentence without a verb.
Eg: a long hot day. - 20Mode:The way English is delivered and received.
Permanence
Planning
Interactivity
Synchronicity
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- A level English Language Flashcards on Language Features, created by imjessjukes on 06/01/2014.
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