English Language A Level Terminology Study Guide Graded A+

pronominal {Ans: relating to or resembling a pronoun - pronominal adjective: "MY book" - pronominal noun: pronoun}interpolation {Ans: a remark interjected in a conversation}indicative realis mood {Ans: used for facts}hypernym {Ans: words that label categories}exophoric {Ans: refers to something outside the text, extralinguistic}complex sentence {Ans: 1 independent clause and 1+ dependent clauses}predicative adjective {Ans: adjective following copula to describe the subject}derivational suffix {Ans: changes meaning of word or word class}predicative nominative {Ans: noun following copula to describe the subject ("I am a teacher")}definite article {Ans: the - specific noun}cataphoric reference {Ans: refers forwards to word later in text}anaphoric reference {Ans: refers back to previous word in text - requires knowledge of implicatures, need to know the antecedent of pronoun, for example}presupposition {Ans: presumption}predicate {Ans: the part of a sentence or clause containing a verb and stating something about the subject (e.g. went home in John went home)}hypotaxis {Ans: subordinate clauses - makes focus clear}complex-compound sentence {Ans: 2+ independent clauses and 1+ dependent clause}object complement {Ans: provides information on the object (he called his brother a fool)}eggcorn {Ans: substitution for a word or