Technical Terms Test

1) A verb used to help the main verb. E.g. Do you believe? 2) Using more words than is strictly necessary. 3) A key grammatical unit. Formed when a noun is linked to a verb. 4) The words ‘a’, ‘an’, ‘the’. 5) Moving a word to the front of a sentence to give it prominence. 6) Words or phrases that are part of conversational language, often figurative and often difficult for non-native speaker. 7) A command verb. 8) The way words change their form to show, for example, that they are singular or plural. 9) When a word, usually noun or verb is changed by the addition of another word or phrase. 10) The study of spelling. 11) All that is written about the subject of a sentence. E.g. He played forty times for England. 12) The basic information about a text. E.g. Author, when it was written, genre etc.

Technical Terms Test

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. 14) The core part of a word to which prefixes and suffixes are added. 15) The history of words. 16) The study of how words combine to form phrases, clauses and sentences. 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. 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. 19) A ____ is a sequence of paragraphs that represents an extended unit of speech. (From Latin word for ‘to weave’) 20) The omission of sounds, syllables, or words in spoken or written discourse.