NOUN PHRASESConsist of a noun and all the words which modify it. Words associated with nouns include: Determiners - a, the, some, those. Pronouns - his, my Adjectives - big, bad tempered, black. Adverbs (intensifying the adjective - very, really.

PILCROWIn other words a punctuation mark. The Paragraphos came to be used to break texts into meaningful chunks such as paragraphs and sentences. When the printing press arrived (1476) and soon came the indented paragraph.

VIRGULEA slash (/) for short pauses and a horizontal line (-) for longer pauses. By the 15th Century the slash was in widespread use.

INTERROBANGA combination of a question mark and exclamation point. Used to punctuate an excited rhetorical question

SNARKPunctuates irony (~)  

Linguistic features - planning the responseGraphology & Orthography: think about boldness, capitalization, heading subheadings and how these all relate to the subject and discourse. Vocabulary: comment on semantic fields and individual words. Is there any example of colloquial/ slang.Address to the reader: does the text address the reader directly, using the second person pronoun 'you'. Does the text address the reader in a familiar, friendly way creating a solidarity between writer and reader. Tone: is the tone informal, formal, serious, lighthearted, ironic or angry? Quote examples within the text and state if the tone is consistent throughout the text. Grammar: Consider sentence lengths and structures are the sentences simple, complex or compound? is there any non-standard grammar or grammatically incomplete sentences? 

Nouns

Orthography

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