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6. Passive voice

  • When the subject is a recipient of the verb.
  • When the subject of the sentence carries out the verb
  • changing the form of the verb from its root form
  • a verb that changes form unusually when used in a different tense without the usual or ‘regular’ patterns..

7. Fronting.

  • What we label elements at the start of a sentence.
  • Syntax structure.
  • The smallest unit of grammatical meaning in language.
  • Something at the beginning of a sentence.

8. Colloquialism

  • Shortening long words.
  • Newly invented words from merging two words together.
  • Informal language usage.
  • A word formed by initials from other grouped words.

9. Compound sentences

  • two simple sentences (of equal semantic weighting) joined by a co-ordinating conjunction (or a semi-colon where the co-ordinating conjunction would have been).
  • every sentence must contain a subject (a noun or pronoun), a verb (something for the subject to do) and, perhaps, an object (something for the subject to do something to), e.g. I love English Language
  • a sentence that is incomplete by missing a subject or a verb, yet it still is capped with a full stop
  • a simple sentence with an added clause that somehow adds extra information linked by a subordinating conjunction.

10. Referencing- Exophoric

  • referencing an element from within the text itself
  • an overt reference to something that occurs later on in a text, for example by using the ambiguous pronoun ‘it’ before the audience is aware of what this pronoun represents
  • making a reference to things beyond the language of a text itself
  • an overt reference to something that occurred earlier in a text, often by using pronouns to build upon previous sentences

11. Connotation.

  • Formality of the text.
  • Associations that can be gleaned from words.
  • Literal meaning of words.
  • A word that joins clauses in a compound sentence.

12. Future perfect continuous tense

  • I will have been eating for nearly twenty days by the time I finish
  • I will have eaten
  • I will be eating
  • I am going to eat

13. Pronoun (possessive/genitive)

  • a personal pronoun that is used as the object of a prepositional or verb action
  • mine, yours, his, hers, theirs
  • an overt reference to something that occurred earlier in a text, often by using pronouns to build upon previous sentences
  • when a personal pronoun utilises the suffix ‘self’ or ‘selves’.

14. monosyllabic lexis

  • words with one syllable.
  • long words
  • the amount of words in a sentence
  • phrases acting as a single noun

15. present perfect tense

  • I eat
  • I have eaten
  • I have been eating
  • I am eating

16. Syntax

  • the way words form sentences (the ordering of them to create meaning).
  • the tone of voice, or the relationship between author and reader and how it is created.
  • the mixture of long and short syntactic structures for effect.
  • can be ‘right’ or ‘left’. When a clause utilises a pronoun it makes sense, but dislocation can occur for further clarification and other effects by adding seemingly unnecessary nouns at either side of the clause.

17. Past perfect continuous tense

  • I had been eating
  • I was eating
  • I ate
  • I was eating

18. Future tense

  • I will have eaten
  • I am going to eat
  • I will be eating
  • I will eat

19. preposition

  • reversal of grammar or meaning in subsequent clauses
  • a word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence
  • a word that shows the physical relationship between one thing and another
  • when the verb is in the present tense used with the auxiliary verb

20. past tense

  • I had eaten
  • I ate
  • I was eating
  • I had been eating