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PRAXIS II: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS: CONTENT KNOWLEDGE (5038) LANGUAGE USE & VOCAB WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100%

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PRAXIS II: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS: CONTENT KNOWLEDGE
(5038) LANGUAGE USE & VOCAB WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS 100%
Phonetics
The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties

Phonology
The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect

Morphology
The study of the structure of words

Semantics
The study of the meaning in language

Syntax
The study of the structure of sentences

Pragmatics
The role of context in the interpretation of meaning

Sociolinguistics
Studying language as it relates to society, including race, class, gender, and age

Ethnolinguistics
Studying language as it relates to culture behavior.
Frequently associated with minority linguictic groups within the larger culture

Psycholinguistics
Studying language as it relates to the psychological and neurological factors that enable humans to
learn language

Dialect
A variation of language that is a characteristic of a particular group.

Creole
A stable, natural language developed from mixing parent languages.

Pidgin
Simplified language used as a means of communication between two or more groups that do not
have a language in common.

Regionalism
Words or phrases used in common by population in a particular region.

, Vernacular Language
The dialect, or normal spoken form of language, of a specific population.

Nonstandard Language
"Why you no cooperate with me, huh?"

Unnatural Language
"Thou art so lame."

Subject
Who or what the sentence is about

Predicate
Rest of sentence or clause that is not the subject, usually has a verb/action

Noun
Thing or Person

Pronoun
Replaces a noun

I, me, he, she, herself, you, it, that, they, each, few, many, who, whoever, whose, someone,
everybody, etc.

Pronoun Shift
When a writer begins by using a particular type of pronoun then shifts abruptly to using a different
type of pronoun.

Ex. A person who drives an older car would do well to keep a set of jumper cables in the trunk, in the
event that your car suddenly refuses to start.

Verb
Action or State

Infinitive
Is the most basic form of the verb and is usually preceded by the preposition "to."

Ex. to read, to write, to illustrate

Split Infinitive
Occurs when a word (usually an adverb) is put between "to" and the verb.

Ex. Mark decided to hastily clean the house before his parents returned.

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