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power of persuasion
Persuasion techniques 1,
What is ideology 2,
Rhetoric device what is a euphemi...
14  cards
verbs
What is an infinitive verb 1,
What is a bare infinitive verb 2,
What is a transitive verb 3
12  cards
power of storytelling
What do stories want 1,
How to make up a story keith john...,
What are some of the genres a sto...
44  cards
power of information
Features you might expect in an i...,
What is the main different betwee...,
Top tips for travel writing 3
4  cards
pronouns
What is the first person singular...,
What is the classification for i 2,
What is the first person singular...
58  cards
adjectives
What is a superlative adjective 1,
What is a comparative adjective 2,
Position of adjectives 3
10  cards
determiners
What are demonstratives used for 1,
What are three examples of demons...,
What is a determiner 3
11  cards
spoken language features
Prosodic features 1,
Paralinguistic features 2,
Non fluency features 3
28  cards
mode/ register
What is context gasp 1,
Language chain where did old engl...,
What is the main differences betw...
40  cards
functions and form
What are the four basic functions 1,
Unmarked typical normal boring ch...,
Define utterance 3
9  cards
speech acts
What is an interpersonal speech a...,
What is an interactional speech a...,
What is an address speech act 3
14  cards
nouns
Abstract noun description 1,
Abstract noun examples 2,
Abstract noun how to identify 3
10  cards
tense
What is passive voice 1,
What does passive voice do show 2,
What verbs can t be passive 3
16  cards
lexical relationships
What is a hypernym 1,
What is a hyponym 2,
What are synonyms 3
21  cards
lexical formation and change
What is corruption example 1,
What is blending example 2,
What is conversion example 3
18  cards
phonetics
Assonance 1,
Liaision or linking 2,
Elision 3
33  cards
sentence structure
Clause element subject phrase typ...,
Clause element subject usual posi...,
Clause element subject test for it 3
29  cards
post modification
Are postmodifiers optional in a n...,
What makes an adverbial 2,
What can be a postmodifier 3
8  cards
discourse/ humour/ politeness/ cohesion
Deixis how many types are there 1,
Cohesion what are the cohesive fa...,
Adjacency pairs expected response 3
37  cards
adverb
What does an adverb modify 1,
What 5 things can adverbs show 2,
How can you create an adverb 3
8  cards
Functional grammar- theme and cohesion
Halliday s theme and rheme 1,
Lexical chains words that are rep...,
Lexical chains words with similar...
15  cards
Theories of CLA
Cognitive theorist s 1,
Cognitive what is it 2,
Cognitive limitations 3
14  cards
Child language acquisition
Stages of question negative and p...,
Definition of first language l1 2,
Definition of second language l2 3
59  cards
Phonological processes (child language acquisition)
Deaffrication definition example ...,
Affrication definition example ap...,
Vowelisation definition example a...
21  cards
Language diversity theories
Language diversity who did the ma...,
Language diversity what was studi...,
Language diversity martha s viney...
126  cards
language diversity
Language diversity what is standa...,
Language diversity what is slang 2,
Language diversity what is dialect 3
47  cards
Language change
Define diachronic change 1,
Define prescriptivism 2,
Define descriptivism 3
70  cards

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