English Language

ADVERB

ADDS DETAIL TO VERBS OR OTHER VERBS

DETERMINER

POSITIONED INFORNT OF NOUNS TO ADD DETAIL OR CLARIFY

E.G. THE, AN, A

CONJUNCTION

LINKS WORDS, PHARASE AND CLAUSES TOGETHER

E.G. AND, BUT, ALTHOUGH, BECAUSE

FIVE TYPES OF PRONOUNS

PERSON - I, YOU, SHE, THEY

POSSESIVE - MY, HIS, OUR, THEIR

REFLEXIVE - MYSELF, HIMSELF, THEMSELVES

DEMONSTRATIVE - THIS, THAT, THERE, THOSE

RELATIVE - WHO, WHOM, WHICH

BASE FORM

THE SIMPLE FORM OF AN ADJECTIVE

E.G SMALL

COMPARATIVE

THE FORM FOR COMPARING TWO ITEMS, ADJECTIVES THAT INCLUDE 'ER'

E.G. SMALLER

SUPERLATIVE

ADJECTIVES THAT INCLUSE 'EST' OR COMBINED WITH 'MOST'

E.G. SMALLEST

COHESION

A MEASURE OF HOW WELL A TEXT FITS TOGETHER AS A WHOLE

LEXICAL CONNECTORS

ADDITON - AND, ALSO

CONSEQUENCE - SO, THERFORE, AS A RESULT, THUS

COMPARATIVE - LIKEWISE, AS WELL AS, ALSO, BUT

TEMPORAL - LATER, NEXT, NOW, SOON

ENUMERATION - FIRSTLY, FINALLY, THEN

SUMMATIVE - IN CONCLUSION, ON THE WHOLE

ANAPHORIC REFERENCING

REFERENCING BACK TO AN ALREADY STATED LEXICAL ITEM

E.G. THE PRIME MINISTER DECIDED TO LEAVE, HE WOULD NEVER RETURN

CATAPHORIC REFERENCING

REFERENCING FORWARD TO AN AS YET UNDISCLOSED LEXICAL ITEM

E.G. HE WANTED THE SWEET. PAUL NEVER WANTED ANYTHING MORE

SUBSTITUTION

REPLACING ONE LEXICAL ITEM WITH ANOTHER

E.G. SCHOOL = EDUCATIONL ESTABLISHMENT

ELLIPSIS

INVOLVES OMITTING A LEXICAL ITEM

E.G SINGLE TO GUILDFORD

      CAN I HAVE A SINGLE TRAIN TICKET TO GUILDFORD PLEASE

SYNONYMY

LEXICAL ITEMS THAT HAVE A SIMILAR MEANING

E.G. MAN, BLOKE, GUY, DUDE, CHAP

ANTONYMY

LEXICAL ITEMS THAT HAVE THE OPPOSITE MEANINGS

E.G. ALIVE - DEAD

       LARGE - SMALL

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

E.G. I'M FEELING DOWN

       METAPHOR TO EXPRESS SOMETHING IN A CREATIVE WAY