English language vocab 41-60

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Possessive pronoun
A pronoun that demonstrates ownership.
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Lexical words
Words that carry explicit meanings and are open to new additions and derivations of the word classes they represent.
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Functional words
Less explicit meanings and serve to highlight relationships between other words.
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Material processes
Describing actions or events.
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Relational processes
Describe states of being, identification or attributes.
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Mental processes
Describing perception thoughts or speech.
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Dynamic verbs
Verb process changes over time e.g. He ate cake.
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Stative verbs
Describes state of affairs rather than an action e.g. Know.
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Base form
Simple form of an adjective, serving to modify.
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Comparative
The form for comparing two items; adjectives inflected with -er or combined with more.
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Superlative
Adjectives inflected with -est or combined with "most" are in superlative form.
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Cohesion
A measure of how well a text fits together as a whole, it's internal logic and construction.
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Referencing
When lexical items replace those already mentioned or about to be mentioned.
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Anaphoric referencing
Referencing back to an already stated lexical item.
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Cataphoric referencing
Referencing forwards to an as yet undisclosed lexical item.
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Substitution
The replacing of one set of lexical items for another.
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Ellipsis
The missing out of a word or words in a sentence.
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Denotation
A strict 'dictionary' definition of a lexical item.
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Connotation
An associated, symbolic meaning relying on culturally shared conventions.
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Semantic or lexical field
Lexical items that are similar in a range of meaning and properties.
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Words that carry explicit meanings and are open to new additions and derivations of the word classes they represent.

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Lexical words

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Less explicit meanings and serve to highlight relationships between other words.

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Card 4

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Describing actions or events.

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Card 5

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Describe states of being, identification or attributes.

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