Part Two: Read the give text.
1. What is the function of the text?
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2. What is the context?
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3. Who is the audience?
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4. In lines 1-5: find the following:
A noun:
Verb:
Adjective:
Preposition:
Conjunctions:
Open class word:
Closed class word:
5. Line 2-3: “This Shearwater from pristine Lord Howe Island starved on a full stomachfull of plastic waste it had mistaken for food.”
a. What is the sentence structure used?
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b. What effect does it have on the function?
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6. Lines 4-5: “Scientists say that two- thirds of seabirds are affected by plastic trash
which pollutes our waterways, rivers and ocean”
a. What class morpheme is ‘affected’?__________________________
b. What effect does that have?
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c. What tense is “Scientists say”? __________________________________________
d. What effect does that have?
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7. Line 6: “One of the biggest culprits is the beverage industry.”
a. Biggest: What class morpheme is this? ____________________________________
b. What does it suggest?
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Line 7-10: Find the following:
Inflectional morpheme:
Derivational morpheme:
A closed class word:
An open class word:
Adverb:
A determiner:
Conjunction:
9. Line 7-8: “Right now, Coca-cola is blocking a popular and proven 10 cent cycling
refund scheme.”
a. What is the tense of ‘blocking’ and ‘proven’?
b. What effect does it have on the message when combined?
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10. Line 8-10: “Cash for containers has run successfully for 30 years in South Australia,
where recycling rates are almost double those across the rest of the country”.
a. What is the sentence type? _____________________________________________
b. What effect does it have on the message?
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c. Identify the main clause
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d. Identify the subordinate clause
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e. What is the structure? _________________________________________________
f. What effect does the structure have?
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11. Line 11-13: “Premier Ted Baillieu has backed ‘Cash for Containers’ in the past. He can
help it go national”.
a. What tense is “Backed”? ______________________________________________
b. Why is it used?
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c. What word class is “can”? ______________________________________________
d. What effect does that have in combination with ‘backed’?
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12. Line 14: “Tell him to stand up to Coca-Cola’s bullying”
a. What is the sentence type? ______________________________________
b. “Bullying” is what class morpheme? _____________________________________
c. What effect does that have?
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13. Give the denotative and connotative meaning of the following in the context of the
text:
Denotative
Connotative
Starved: Line 1
Culprits: line 6
Pristine: Line 2
Bullying: Line 14
14. How do the visuals support the function of the text? Discuss the images, layout and
size.
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