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Common Noun
a naming word for a thing that is tangible e.g chair, penguin, man, murderer, ghost
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Verb
a word that represents an action or processs: a 'doing' word
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Active Verb
that represents a physical action e.g run, jump, sleep
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Stative Verb
a word that represents a process that is often only mental e.g think, believe, love
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Auxiliary Verb
a verb that has been used with another verb in order to creat present participles or the future tense e.g "DID you go?" "I AM going" "You WILL go"
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Modal Verb
an auxiliary verb that express a degree of either possibility or necessity e.g might, could, must, should, may
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Adjective
A describing verb that modifies a noun
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Adverb
A describing word that modifies all types of words, excluding nouns
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3rd Person Pronoun
him, her, she, it. Plural: them, those
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Posessive Pronoun 1st, 2nd, 3rd
my, mine, our, your, his, hers, theirs
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First Person Pronoun
I and, the first person plural: we, our, us
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Second Person Pronoun
You
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Definite Article
The
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Indefinite Article
A or an
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Self-Reflexive Pronoun
Me
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Superlative
an adjective that displays the most extreme value of its quality e.g most, biggest, smallest, worst '-est'
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Comparative
an adjective that relates on thing in some way to another and usually ends in '-er' e.g bigger, smaller, further
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Demostrative Pronoun
this, that, those
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Monosyllabic lexis
words of one syllable
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Polysyllabic lexis
words of two or more syllable
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Register
level of formality of the text
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Tenor
the tone, or the relationship between author and reader and how it is created
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Ellipsis
when parts of a written structure are missing
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Syntax
the ways word form sentences
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Parenthesis
an aside within a text created by sectioning off extra information between brackets, dashes or inbetween commas. 'Parenthetic commas, brackets dashes'
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Hypophora
when a rhetorical question is immediately followed by an answer in a text e.g "Is this the best film ever? You bet it is!"
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Parallelism/patterning
the creations of patterns in a text either through repetition or through structures. This can be for emphasis or to add a sense of gathering momentum, to a point being made.
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Pre-modification
a descriptive technique where the discriptive words come before the thing they are describing e.g the (big),[fat] wad of cash spewed from his {inadequate pocket}
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Post-modification
a descriptive technique where the discriptive words come after the thing they are describing e.g the wad of cash, (big and fat), spewed from his pocket
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Semantics
the meanings of words
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Homonym
when one word has multiple meaning e.g great can mean both size and positivity
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Collocations
words that through usage just naturally go together, we collectively understand that are inextricably linked e.g Laurel and Hardy
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Clipping
colloquial omission of parts of words to create a more casual alternative e.g 'cause, bra, pram
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Rhetoric
an example of persuasive language, arguably including advertising
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Semantic Shift
the shifts in words meaning over time e.g 'sick' evolves to become something other than illness but a slang reference to something positive
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Discourse
the study of spoken language
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Paralinguistic Features
literally 'beyond language' The things that aid communication but don't literally constitute language e.g body language, facial expressions, laughter
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Prosodic Features
stress, intonation and pitch
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Topic Shifter
an utterance thats moves a conversation on to another topic e.g "Anyway..."
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Interrupted Construction
the breadown of an utterance where half way through the speaker will completely change tact, focus or topic and move onto something else
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a word that represents an action or processs: a 'doing' word

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Verb

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that represents a physical action e.g run, jump, sleep

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a word that represents a process that is often only mental e.g think, believe, love

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Card 5

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a verb that has been used with another verb in order to creat present participles or the future tense e.g "DID you go?" "I AM going" "You WILL go"

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