Advanced Topics Flashcards
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Which sentence uses 'fewer' and 'less' correctly?
Answer: He has fewer errors and less anxiety than before.
'Fewer' applies to countable nouns (errors) and 'less' applies to uncountable nouns (anxiety).
In systemic functional linguistics, what does the 'ideational metafunction' of language refer to?
Answer: How language constructs and conveys meaning about the world and experience.
The ideational metafunction, in Halliday's framework, is concerned with how language represents the speaker's experience and the world around them.
Which sentence uses a gerund phrase as the subject?
Answer: Swimming requires strong technique.
'Swimming' is a gerund (verb + -ing used as a noun) functioning as the subject of the sentence.
Which of the following is an example of litotes?
Answer: She is not the worst student in the class.
Litotes is understatement through negation of the opposite, implying she is actually a good student.
Which sentence correctly demonstrates the use of a parenthetical citation within academic writing?
Answer: Grammar is evolving (Smith, 2020).
APA and MLA styles use the format '(Author, Year)' for in-text parenthetical citations.
Which option is an example of asyndeton?
Answer: I came, I saw, I conquered.
Asyndeton deliberately omits conjunctions between items in a list, creating a rapid, forceful effect.
Which sentence illustrates a correct use of the Oxford comma?
Answer: We invited the strippers, JFK, and Stalin.
The Oxford comma (after 'JFK') clarifies that JFK and Stalin are separate invitees, not the strippers themselves.