Eng lang resit

Cultural context:

The beliefs, values, and customs shared by a group of people

Situational context:

 The immediate situation you are in (where you are, who you’re with, what’s happening)

Register:

way in which an addressee internationally alters their language to better suit a situation.

Auxiliary verbs:

Are ‘helping words’ - be, have, do and all the forms of these words. 

Modal verbs:

Conveys a range of attitudes and moods like likelihood of an event taking place like can/could , may/might, must/shall/should and will/would.

Inflectional morphemes:

DO NOT change the meaning or word class of a word. 

They provide additional grammatical information. 

Derivational morphemes

change the meaning of words, create new words and can sometimes change the word class. 

A free morpheme:

can stand alone and is still understandable (like dog)

A bound morpheme:

cannot stand alone (like -s or -ed)

sentance types: Interrogative

Asks a question eg why did you leave?

sentance types: Declaritive

makes a statement eg the dog has black hair

sentance types: exclamitive

expresses emotion eg i am so happy

sentance types: imperative

Gives an instruction eg give me money

A semantic domain

any words with common category eg dachshund, bichon, corgi would be (dogs)

The semantic domain:

The overall semantic grouping. 

E.g The semantic domain of the text is a job application, this is evident by the words, base salary, hourly rate and leave

Simple sentence

• One clause (one idea)

• Has a subject + verb

Example: I ate the pie; he cried. 

Compound sentence

• Two or more independent clauses joined together

• Uses a coordinator (joining word) 

Example: I ate the pie and she ate the cake.

Complex sentence

• One independent clause + one (or more) dependent clause

• Uses a subordinator (e.g. because, after, although)

Eg. I ate the pie after she ate the cake; He cried because she laughed. 

Coordinator (coordinating conjunction)

• A word that joins two equal ideas (independent clauses)
  Common ones: and, but, or, so
  Example: He cried but she laughed.