English Language Definitions

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Created by: Joe
Created on: 05-04-10 19:58

1. Hedging devices are often used to...

Change the subject
Trim garden hedges
Show uncertainty
Show certainty

1 of 5

2. 'You're going to play... Aren't you?" is an example of:

Tag Question
Transcript
Backtracking
Hesitation

3. Hot/Cold, Man/Woman and True/False are:

Complimentary antonyms
Hyponymy
Random words
Gradable antonyms

4. Convergence is:

Conveying a message to another person
Using long words to sound smarter than you actually are
Changing your language to suit another person
Copying another persons language

5. Informal terms used on daily basis in everyday lanuage are...

Conventions
Clauses
Colloquialisms
Comparatives

Comments

Amy

Report Thu 15th April, 2010 @ 13:59

I didnt know some of this! it was a hard one! 4/5 :)

Got question three wrong :/

*Making notes now...*

TypicalBrad

Report Sun 23rd May, 2010 @ 21:50

I got 60% :/

I got 2 and 4 wrong, i think thats helped me remember what convergence is now, thanks

Jessica McCann

Report Mon 24th May, 2010 @ 16:15

so then what the hell is hedging then huh? ha i score 80% and i still think im going to fail.

Mahtab

Report Fri 31st December, 2010 @ 01:09

i didn't know anything, gave it a go and got 80% LOL

haha

Parsnip

Report Sun 2nd January, 2011 @ 20:24

yay 100%

Good quiz thanks :)

riddhisha

Report Tue 25th January, 2011 @ 09:00

i got all of them :P

100%

AL Anood

Report Sat 19th February, 2011 @ 13:06

got them all right even thou i expected to get them all wrong...

Crystal Duffey

Report Sat 14th May, 2011 @ 12:20

I got them all wrong, I've left all my revision unitl last minute too, my exams start in 2 days :/

alice

Report Mon 30th May, 2011 @ 16:39

Yay 5/5 thank you, good quiz!

Nichola Armstrong

Report Tue 31st May, 2011 @ 18:15

I have only learnt one of these, what exam board is this for? Im feeling a bit concerned now :/

Chloe

Report Sun 5th June, 2011 @ 16:20

Hey, isn't convergence changing your accent not your language?? Thanks apart from that it's very helpful, need to revise things I didn't quite get.

hannah

Report Sat 31st March, 2012 @ 17:02

Got 40%.

Thank God that my exam is on the 11th June. Revision for this is starting today.

#Grace

Report Sat 27th April, 2019 @ 14:00

80% yay

#getting there

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