English language techniques

• Noun

  Person place or thing
• Verb

  Doing word
• Adjective

  Describing word
• Common noun

  Generic things (house, cat)
• Proper noun

  Specific thing (Paris)
• Singular noun

  One thing
• Plural noun

  Multiple things
• Concrete noun

  Perceived through 5 senses (apple)
• Abstract noun

  Not perceived through 5 senses (love, Friday)
• Collective noun

  Singular noun referring to a group (crowd)
• Compound noun

  Two or more words in one (dry-cleaning)
• Countable noun

  Objects that can be counted (5 cats)
• Non-countable noun

  Objects that cannot be counted (salt)
• Transitive verb

  Expressing an action towards an object (Millie SEES the cat)
• Intransitive verb

  Expressing an action not towards an object (Millie dances)
• Linking verb

  Connects subject to information about itself (Millie BECAME tanned)
• Dynamic verb

  Of action
• Static verb

  Situation or state (surprised)
• Auxiliary verb

  Helping verb (need, can, will)
• Modal verb

  Possibility (might, could)
• GAP

  • Genre
  • Audience
  • Purpose
• Mode and affordance

  What type of text is it and what are its strengths and weaknesses
• Asynchronous interaction

  Delayed discourse
• Adjectival pre-modifier

  Adjectives before the noun
• Appositive phrase


  Provides additional information (Millie, a cutie, loves cats)
• Adverb


  Adds to a verb (slowly)
• Synonyms

  Similar words
• Antonyms

  Different words
• Declarative

  It is raining
• Interrogative

  Is it raining?
• Imperative

  Importance
• Exclamation

  What a beautiful day!
• Simile

  Like, as
• Metaphor

  Saying something is something else
• Personification

  Human features
• Hyperbole

  Exaggeration
• Onomatopoeia

  Words imitating sounds
• Alliteration

  Repetition of initial sound (please play pickles)
• Assonance

  Repitition of vowel sounds
• Anaphora

  Repetition of beginning of sentence