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A-level English Edexcel 2024 Exam Comprehensive Review
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A-level English Edexcel 2024 ExamComprehensive Review
register - Answer>>level of formality or informality of language
colloquialism - Answer>>expressions usually accepted in
informal situations e.g. everyday speech
jargon - Answer>>technical vocabulary that's field-specific
concrete noun - Answer>>people, objects, substances
proper noun - Answer>>names of people, places (capital letter
start)
abstract noun - Answer>>intangible things e.g love, hunger,
beauty
adjective (pre-modifying adjective) - Answer>>words that
describe a noun
possessive pronoun - Answer>>a pronoun that shows
ownership e.g mine
interrogative - Answer>>question?
declarative - Answer>>a declaring sentence
imperative - Answer>>an instruction/order e.g go do that
exclamative - Answer>>exclamation!
interjection - Answer>>a word tossed in (technically between
others) for emotion
, modal auxiliary verb - Answer>>'can' 'could' 'should' 'may'
'might' 'must'
minor sentence - Answer>>a sentence that doesn't contain a
verb
inter-texuality - Answer>>reference to another piece of writing
allusion - Answer>>indirect reference to a person/place/event
collocation - Answer>>two or more words placed together as
part of a set phrase e.g pitch black, sweet dreams
adjacency pairs - Answer>>linked utterances
backtracking - Answer>>interruption of an utterance to include
info that should've been included earlier
convergence - Answer>>the way one speaker adapts their
language choices to the other speaker
deictic reference - Answer>>marker of time that needs context
e.g this morning
dialect - Answer>>vocabulary and grammar distinctive to a
region or social use of language
discourse markers - Answer>>words/phrases that signal the
beginning of an utterance e.g So, Firstly, Furthermore
elision - Answer>>omission of letters or slurring of one of one or
more sounds or syllables e.g gonna, wanna
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