Eng Lang AOS1 vocab

• Mode is if something is spoken, written or e-communication
• audience are intended listeners
• register are types of formality
• Text type: examples: newspaper article, tv show, podcast
• field: content of subject matter e.g. dogs - grooming, veterinary, fur, panting, bulldog
• Authorial intent: what author intends to do to achieve with text, often based on purpose. e.g purpose is to inform people about a product and authorial intent is to buy the product.
• Cultural context: views, value and attitude of society at the time. Uses information from the setting
• Tenor: how well the parties know each other(social distance); author and audience
• Setting: time relative to the topic, physical setting, place of publication (when and where)
• Purpose: reason text is being used e.g. inform readers
• Domain: Category of the vocabulary and lexemes e.g. Dog breeds: Labrador, kelpie, poodle, pug
• Functions: there are 6

  Referential: convey information

  Emotive: interprets feelings

  Conative: pursued(e.g. commands) or engage audience

  Phatic: establish social language(e.g. greeting)

  Metalinguistic: talks about language e.g. what does phatic Mean?

  Poetic: like poetry
• Morphemes:

  Free: stand alone word e.g. apple

  Bound: put with a free morpheme

  Inflection bound: change no meaning: e.g. tense(past), plurality(s) and possession

  Derivational: change meaning (e.g. swim-swimmer)

  Root word: can be free or bound.

  e.g. free: actor, writer

  bound: bio-logy, homo-genous

  Affixation: prefix-before e.g. "un -stable", suffix-after e.g. "cat-s", infix-in between "un-fucking-believeable"
• Noun:

  Concrete: e.g. chair

  Abstract: e.g. bravery

  Proper noun: e.g. Australia

  Collective: e.g. Identifying groups e.g. swarm, pod 

  Plural: e.g. tasks, geese 
• Verb: 

  Lexical: convey action, event or state e.g. to run to walk 

  Auxiliary: provide grammatical info before a lexical, indicate time, tenses, questions and negatives e.g. is, was, has, did, didn’t

  Modal: obligation, possibility, prediction e.g. can, must, will

  Infinitive: to + (verb)
• I could have eaten quickly to save time

  What type of verb are these:

  Could: modal have: auxiliary eaten: lexical to save: infinitive 
• adjective: describes a noun

  The purple shed : adjective is before a noun is an attributive adjective

  The soup was hot : adjective after is a complement adjective 
• Adverb: words which describe verbs, adjectives or another adverb

  e.g. The car drove slowly : modify the verb

  The house was very pretty : modify an adjective

  It was painted particularly carefully : modify another adverb
• Determiner: a word used before a noun 

  E.g. a, an, the  and sometimes this, that, my, our, their, 2, 65, first, second 

  E.g. when not a determiner 

  That book is worth reading - that: determiner 

  That is a good book - that: pronoun
• Pronoun: short word that replaces a noun

  E.g. when not a determiner 

  That book is worth reading - that: determiner 

  That is a good book - that: pronoun
• Conjunctions: join words or a sentences together 

  Co-ordinating: uses fanboys: for, and nor/neither, but, or, yet, so 

  E.g. the smoothy was cold and refreshing 

  Jackson loved physics but Jules couldn’t wait for the bell to ring

  Subordinating: joins an independent sentence and dependent phase

  E.g. while, where, so that, because, if, although, as 
• Preposition: describe relationship between more than one noun in things like place, direction, time, comparison, source and purpose

  E.g. at, past, before, like, from, for
• Sentence structure:

  Clause: a subject doing something

  Sentence fragments: not a full sentence, with no main clause

  E.g. went back
• Sentence structure:

  Simple sentence: consists of one main clause 

  e.g. I bought three potato cakes 

  My dog was cold 
• Sentence structure:

  Compound sentence: consists of 2 main clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction : for, and nor/neither, but, or, yet, so 

  e.g. I bought three potato cakes and Theo bought a burger with the lot

  My dog was cold and was shaking 
• Sentence structure:

  Complex sentence: one main clause and one subordinating clause connected by a subordinating conjunction: E.g. while, where, so that, because, if, although, as 

  e.g. I bought three potato cakes because I was happy “because” subordinating conjunction 
• Sentence structure:

  Compound complex sentence: must have at least 3 clauses with at least 2 main and 1 dependent clause.

  e.g. I bought three potato cakes and(co-ordinating conjunction) Theo bought a burger with the lot because( subordinating clause) we were hungry. 

  My dog “that we got yesterday” was cold and(coordinating) was shaking while(subordinating) he waited at home.

  “that we got yesterday” relative clause is a dependent clause 
• Sentence type: 

  Declarative: statement tells reader a statement 

  e.g. I am happy for you 

  All members of the cast were assembled for the celebration 
• Sentence type: 

  Imperative: a direction, order, instruction or command 

  e.g. Be happy!
• Sentence type: 

  Exclamation: expresses deeply felt emotion

  e.g. I am so happy for you!

  I can’t believe you did that to me. 
• Sentence type: 

  Interrogative: askes questions

  e.g. How happy am I?

  When you saw the crime occur, what time of day was it?