ENGLISH FINALS

• A linear text is the traditional top to bottom strategy in which you look at the words from the beginning to the end.
• A non linear text identifies the important parts of a linear text through visual representation
• Tables arrange the presentation of quantative or qualitative data
• Graphs are used to present distribution, progress, or comparisons
• Diagrams visually explains an idea or a word by outlining its components together with the relationships among them
• Noun - is a name
• Personal pronouns - Often function as the subject or object in a sentence
• Possessive pronouns- Indicate possession
• Relative pronouns - These start a clause
• Indefinite pronouns - Does not refer to any person, amount, or thing in particular
• Demonstrative pronouns - Used to indicate which is being referred to
• Interrogative pronouns - Used to indicate a question
• Distributive pronouns - Considers members of a group separately
• Intensive pronouns - Emphasize a preceding noun, they may appear after the noun or at the end of a noun
• Reflexive pronoun - Throws the action back to the doer
• Operational definitions - A is a series attempt of a writer to identify a certain concept in a formal way
• Term - a word to be defined
• Copula - the auxiliary verb that links the term with the differentia
• Genus - the general classification of a word
• Differentia - what makes the object different from its classification
• modals - can be used to express possibility, probability, or certainty.
• Must - shows strong obligation
• Can - shows ability, permission
• Could - Shows ability in the past, permission, possibility
• May - shows permission
• Might - shows permission, posibility
• Will - shows of promise of action
• Shall - shows future action
• Would - shows condition
• Should - shows reccommendation
• Relative pronouns - connects a phrase to a noun or another phrase
• Adverbs - a word that can modify or describe a verb, adjective, or entire sentence
• Adverb of manner - how an action is performed or how something happens
• Adverb of degree - used to qualify verbs, adjectives, adverbs, by expressing extent or degree
• Adverb of place - provides information about the location of the action
• Adverb of time - describe when something happens
• Adverb of frequency - how often something happens
• Adverb of purpose - Why something happned
• Extension - Writing all examples that fall into a particular category or group
• Intension - Write all the characteristics of a subject