language semantics, concepts, grammar, phrases and verieties - English Lanuage

Conjunction

Connecting words / clauses - ‘and'

Noun

naming word (place, person, thing)

Adjective

Discribing word - ‘beautiful'

Evaluative Adjective

Offer judgment on the noun - ‘his work is bad’

Comparative Adjective

Usually end in er - ‘prettier'

Adverb

Word descriing a verb - ‘quickly'

Abstract Noun

Something NOT existing physically - emoions

Concrete Noun

Something existing physically

Adjectivial phrase

A group of words that describe a noun ‘house on THE HILL'

Adverial phrase

‘you left the meetng very FAST'

Hyperbole

Exaggeration for effect

Meiosis

The opposite - ‘it's just a scratch' when it's actually serious

Idioms

Sayings - ‘it's raining cats and dogs'

Projerotive Term

Judgmental / implies disapproval

Hegemony - Concept

How a social group uses language to dominate others

Exclamitive

!

Declaritive

Statments

Imperetive

Instructions

Interegetive

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Deontic Modality - Grammar

Language to show rules, obligation or permission

Dialect

Langage of a group of people

Idiolect

Language of an individual