English Composition
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- Possible double meaning that may confuse a listener or reader.
- Ambiguity
- Used in some dictionaries to label words appropriate only in informal speech.
- Colloquial
- Customary way of doing things; what a reader or listener expects or is accustomed to.
- Convention
- Sparing use of words, avoiding unnecessary wordiness or duplication.
- Economy
- Kind of English appropriate in serious discussion and writing.
- Formal
- Result of staying within one pattern and avoiding confusing shifts in tense or grammatical perspective.
- Consistency
- Everday language of those with little formal education; inappropriate in school, business, or writing.
- Non-Standard
- Extremely informal language; often used in a disrespectful manner.
- Slang
- Unintentional repetition, needless duplication.
- Redundancy
- Emotional associations we have with a word.
- Connotation
- Word choice.
- Diction
- Objective definition of a word.
- Denotation
- Beside means ___ Besides means ___
- Next to/In addition to
- Language of our institutions - of school, church, business, and government.
- Standard
- Dictionary of synonyms.
- Thesaurus
- Affect means to ___ Effect means to ___
- Influence/Bring about results
- Accept means to ___ Except means to ___
- Receive/Leave out
- Words that are pronounced the same but are spelled differently.
- Homonyms
- Kind of standard English we use in casual conversations and personal letters.
- Informal
- Study of the forms of words and their arrangement in a language.
- Grammar
- Capital - Capitol -
- City or Money/Building
- Complement means to - Compliment means to -
- Complete/Praise
- Contemptible - Contemptuous -
- Deserving of Scorn/Feeling Scorn
- It's means - Its means -
- It is/Belonging to it
- Principle - Principal -
- Rule/Head of School or Main
- Than - Then -
- Comparisons/At that Time
- Put out, put up, and put down are all -
- Idioms
- True Blue means loyal, and Fell into the arms of Morpheus means went to sleep... What are these?
- Cliches
- Results when two or more meanings are possible.
- Ambiguity
- The noun is called the ___ of the pronoun.
- Antecedent
- Always place a ___ as close as possible to the word it describes.
- Modifier
- A complete sentence must have 3 things:
- A subject, a verb, and a complete thought.
- Two complete thoughts may be joined to form a ___.
- Compound Sentence
- Two or more thoughts of unequal importance may be joined to form a ___.
- Complex Sentence
- Perfect tenses are formed with an auxiliary verb and the ___ of the main verb.
- Past Participle
- Quoting of a person's exact words.
- Direct Discourse
- Paraphrasing of a person's exact words.
- Indirect Discourse