English Language Unit 3 quiz

The sun smiled on all the people

'Some of the results are good, others are bad.' What is the syntactic patterning here?

'How good was Smithy for Hawthorn last night!' 

"The dog was kicked by Fred."

The semantic connections that exist within a text to make it meaningful.

'They must kiss before sunset to break the spell.' Identify the adverbial

'I Got some money off the 'rents' is an example of 

'The vote made John's position untenable.' Identify the complement:

A passive without an agent or doer of the action

'I love it, icecream.'

The tendency for some words to regularly be found in combination with each other. 

Simple sentences contain a single main clause

Includes the initiation of the topic, topic development and also topic change. 

Erin loves her brother, and he loves her too because she pays his bills.

What is the word class? 'Make sure you subscribe wherever you get your podcasts to get every episode as it drops.'

Word that signals the attitude of the speaker and express probability, possibility, doubt etc.

A form of substitution that occurs BEFORE the referent has been introduced

What is the word class? 'Mr Lovison had been at Kmart and Woolworths in Moe on the morning of his disappearance.'

What is the word class? "Lovo was such a massive part of our lives," he said.

Happy, Glad, Joyous, Cheerful, Upbeat, Gleeful - are examples of

What word class is the bolded word? 'Some parents took their children immediately to Bondi's pop-up testing clinic.' 

YOLO

Language common to a trade, group of people, profession etc

'I need to have a crap' - is an example of a

'What are ya doin / ' is an example of 

The process that turns whole clauses into noun-like structures. 

What word class is the bolded word? 'Both Waverley and Moriah colleges enacted their prepared COVID-19 evacuation plans'

'Act naturally' - 'Poor dentist' - 'Peaceful war' = are examples of 

People directly involved in the conversation

One of the best rivalries of this century takes a twist as the Hawks head down the highway for the first time since 2006

A suffix added to a common or proper noun that indicates smallness. Usually for affection 

'diarise' - to put in a diary.

Language associated with a social group, ethnicity or age group

Identify the direct object: 'Charli passed Lucy the metalanguage book.'

'There is a book. I really liked it.' - where 'it' is a

Piper wants to turn over a new leaf - is an example of

'How are you?' - 'I'm well and you?" is an example of

Devices that speakers use to lessen the impact of an utterance.

Have a crack at the SAC attack - is an example of

'The book came from over there' - where 'there' is a

The linguistic connections and ties that exist between the words to give structure to a text.

Language that is defined by use