1. 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
