Technical Terms Test

1) A verb used to help the main verb. E.g. Do you believe? auxiliary 2) Using more words that is strictly necessary. circumlocution 3) A key grammatical unit. Formed when a noun is linked to a verb. clause 4) The words ‘a’, ‘an’, ‘the’. article 5) Moving a word to the front of a sentence to give it prominence. foregrounding 6) Words or phrases that are part of conversational language, often figurative and often difficult for non-native speaker. idioms 7) A command verb. imperative 8) The way words change their form to show, for example, that they are singular or plural. inflection 9) When a word, usually noun or verb is changed by the addition of another word or phrase. modification 10) The study of spelling. orthography 11) All that is written about the subject of a sentence. E.g. He played forty times for England. predicate 12) The basic information about a text. E.g. Author, when it was written, genre etc. provenance 13) The style of a text, which is determined by the context. E.g. The style of the Times is different to the Sun. It can be informal or scientific. Etc. register 14) The core part of a word to which prefixes and suffixes are added. stem 15) The history of words. etymology 16) The study of how words combine to form phrases, clauses and sentences. syntax 17) A stem, together with any affixes that depend on it and possibly other stems (as part of a compound stem), which can be pronounced by itself in normal use of a language, e.g. in response to a question. word 18) Some words in a sentence have little or no meaning of their own but instead refer to other words in the same or other sentences. Anaphoric reference 19) A sequence of paragraphs that represents an extended unit of speech. (From Latin word for ‘to weave’) text 20) The omission of sounds, syllables, or words in spoken or written discourse. ellision