Year 10 English Language Semester 1 Exam Revision

Flashcards for Year 10 English Language Semester 1 Exam revision.

Noun

A person, place, thing, or emotion.

Pronoun

Takes the place of a noun or noun phrase.

Adjective

Describes a noun or noun phrase.

Verb

An action or doing word.

Adverb

Most commonly describes a verb, but can also modify an adjective or another adverb.

Preposition

Describes the position of things or the relationship of things to each other.

Conjunction

Joins words, phrases, or clauses together.

Determiner

A broad term describing the function of adjectives and some adverbs.

Interjection

A word or phrase that expresses feelings rather than meaning.

Declarative Sentence

A statement.

Imperative Sentence

A command or instruction.

Interrogative Sentence

A question.

Exclamative Sentence

A strong emotional outburst.

Simple Sentence

Contains one independent clause.

Compound Sentence

Contains two or more independent clauses.

Complex Sentence

Contains one independent clause plus one or more subordinate clauses.

Compound-Complex Sentence

Contains two or more independent clauses plus one or more subordinate clauses.

Solidarity

Unity or agreement of feeling or action, especially among individuals with a common interest.

Intimacy

Close familiarity or friendship.

Social Harmony

The quality of forming a pleasing and consistent whole.

Rapport

Harmonious relationship between people or groups with shared understanding, feelings, and ideas.

Authority

The power or right to give orders, make decisions, and reinforce obedience.

Clarify

Make less confusing and more comprehensible.

Manipulate

Handle, influence, or control in a skillful manner.

Obfuscate

Make unclear, obscure, or unintelligible.

Referential Function

language is for communicating

Phatic Function

language is for relating socially

Emotive Function

language is for expressing emotions

Conative Function

language is for getting things done

Metalinguistic Function

language is for calling attention to language

Poetic Function

language is about getting the message across creatively

Borrowings/Loanwords

Words adopted by the speakers of one language from a different source language.

Cognate

A word derived from the same root as another word; words that have a common origin.

False Cognates

Pairs of words that seem to be cognates because of similar sounds and meaning, but have different origins.

Great Vowel Shift

Radical change in pronunciation during the 15th to 17th Centuries (c. 1400)