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6. What is phatic talk?

  • Discussion purely for social gain
  • A series of questions
  • Talk that relies on context for understanding
  • One person talking to themselves

7. What are adjecitves?

  • Nothing
  • Words that describe nouns
  • Words that describe how an action is being performed
  • The subject in a sentence

8. Katherine Nelson categorised a child's 50 first words. Which tpes of words did she say take up 60% of a child's first words?

  • Concrete nouns
  • Function words
  • Prepositions
  • Adjectives

9. What function does the word 'inside' play in this sentence: 'It is inside the box.'?

  • Pronoun
  • Determiner
  • Preposition
  • Verb

10. What sentence function is this: 'Do not eat that custard cream.'

  • Exclamatory
  • Interrogative
  • Imperative
  • Complex sentence