Rudy's Delta 1 Quiz

When something is referred to in the real world outside a text

• anaphoric reference

• cataphoric reference

• exophoric reference

• endophoric reference

When 2 words are said together, an extra sound is sometimes placed between them in order to make them easier to say

part(s) of speech

• word class

• phonemes

• diphthong

• tenses

The name of "a"

a grammatical category which is used to indicate the time at which an action happens by changing the form of the finite verb. English has two: past and present.

texts are read carefully to get detailed and complete understanding

• skimming

• reading for gist

• scanning

• reading for detail

the smallest units of sounds in a language

• tonic syllable

• phoneme

• morpheme

• syllable

the rules for sequencing words so as to show their relationships of meaning within sentences

The leaving out of elements of a sentence because they are either unnecessary or because their sense can be worked out from the immediate context

• ellipsis

• intrusion

• catenation

• elision

a word that is a subcategory of a more general category

e.g. ice-cream is a ... of dessert