English Vocab 0.0 / 5 ? English LanguageLanguage VocabASAQA Created by: RajvirCreated on: 13-05-14 20:48 Adjacency Pairs An utterance and response often seen together e.g. 'How are you? 'Fine thanks you?' 1 of 22 Amelioration Where a words meaning lessens over time 2 of 22 Anaphoric reference Using the proper noun first, then switching to pronouns 3 of 22 Cataphoric reference Using a series of pronouns before the proper noun 4 of 22 Collocation Words that habitually go together e.g. fish and chips 5 of 22 Declarative Sentence States/describes something 6 of 22 Deictic Expression Words or expressions that require context for understanding (it, that, them) 7 of 22 Homonym A word with the same spelling but different meaning and sound e.g. lead (verb) and lead (noun) 8 of 22 Homophone Words that sound the same but have different spellings e.g. they're there and their 9 of 22 Hybrid Cross between spoken and written language 10 of 22 Hypernym 'Umbrella noun' - encompasses other nouns - e.g. animal (hypernym) encompasses dog, cat, lion 11 of 22 Hyponym Words within the hypernym e.g dog, cat, lion (hyponym) under 'animal' 12 of 22 Imperative Sentence Type of sentence function that commands 13 of 22 Interrogative Sentence Type of sentence function that is a question 14 of 22 Litotes Understatements 15 of 22 Metnoymy Word or phrase used to stand for a person, place or group 16 of 22 Perjoration Where a words meaning strengthens overtime 17 of 22 Preposition Used to position things in a sentence e.g in, under, over, at 18 of 22 Pre modification Words (usually adjectives) that come before a noun to describe it 19 of 22 Post modification Words that come after the noun to describe it 20 of 22 Triadic Structure Writing a list of 3 things for flow 21 of 22 Virtuous error Child makes mistake with language but follows grammatical rule e.g. he runned, it was the baddest... 22 of 22
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