A Level Language Seminar – Thursday 17th September
Starter: Guess the origin of these borrowed words:
Anglo Saxon (15) French (12) Latin (10)
House, genre, vindicate, expensive, love, dessert, wife, religion, anatomy,
ship, gourmet, food, regime, physician, grass, morale, moon, spring, liaison,
evil, brunette, cold, dexterity, duchess, black, gradual, ultimate, restaurant,
eat, notorious, sleep, soldier, live, abdomen, debut, drink, excavate.
Anglo Saxon
Morphemes
French
Latin
• Can be ‘free morphemes’ or ‘bound morphemes’
• Bound morphemes ‘y’ or ‘s’ or ‘an ’ or ‘semi’
Words
• Made up of morphemes. What different classes are
there?
Phrases
• Do not contain a verb – can be preposi onal,
adjec val, adverbial or noun phrases
Clause
• Independent (main) or Dependent (subordinate)
• Differ from phrases because they must have a verb
Sentence
Text
• At least one main clause – ay also include phrases
• Simple, Compound or complex.
• Different types (interroga ve, impera ve,
declara ve, empha c
• Well, anything really.
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Grammar Practise
1. MORPHOLOGY
Word
Analysis. What morphemes? Free or bound? Prefix or suffix? How do
they change the root word?
Confused
Free morpheme ‘confuse’ is the root word. The suffix ‘ed’ (bound
morpheme) changes the verb ‘confuse’ to past participle.
Independently
Classical
Predetermined
Automobile
Feedback
2. CLAUSE ANALYSIS
Read these sentences. Label the dependent and independent clauses as well as any
phrases you think are there. What type of sentence are they?
Challenge: Label word classes as well
1
In the morning, Paul packs his umbrella because he is scared of the rain.
Phrase
Independent clause
dependent clause
2
Until you bring me a decent essay, I won’t be marking your work.
3
4
5
Like a butterfly, Janet drifted away Brad, despite his continued protests.
Although it never rains, I still take my umbrella to Bermuda.
I dislike broccoli, even though it’s good for me and it contains lots of vitamins.
A Level Language Seminar – Thursday 17th September
Audience / Purpose. What type of text? Aimed at? What for? Appearing where? Produced by?
Lexical points of interest / observations of words used. Individual words and patterns
Semantic points of interest. How else is meaning constructed? Levels of formality? Colloquial
or slang language. Crossover between lexis with ‘semantic fields
Grammatical points of interest. What types of sentences dominate? Do any specific
sentences carry extra weight or meaning? How are specific word classes used? What types of
phrases are commonly used?
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Grammar Practise
Audience / Purpose. What type of text? Aimed at? What for? Appearing where? Produced by?
Lexical points of interest / observations of words used. Individual words and patterns
Semantic points of interest. How else is meaning constructed? Levels of formality? Colloquial
or slang language. Crossover between lexis with ‘semantic fields
Grammatical points of interest. What types of sentences dominate? Do any specific
sentences carry extra weight or meaning? How are specific word classes used? What types of
phrases are commonly used?