WRIT2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Interjection, Preposition And Postposition

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30 Jun 2018

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Department

Writing

Course

WRIT2250

Professor

Amber Gwynne

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Interjections:

Stick out in spikes of language

Feeling or an attitude

Can’t form grammatical sentences – consist outside

Common to speech but not in writing

! mark goes not signal interjection (could be command)

Prepositions:

Relate to positions

Relationship of space and time

Serve a more grammatical function

Signal relationship

Can behave as modifiers – adverbial and adjectival

Can differ between locations

Nouns:

Follows a preposition work as objects

Prepositional phase

Prepositions can become unstuck from their noun phase in relative clauses

Ofness:

Using too many prepositions

Conjunctions:

Three types

Coorinating (comma FANBOYS – for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

Connect words or groups

Join only phrases and clauses

Subordinating conjunctions – words relating to cause and effect – can’t stand on their own

and can swap positions with the main clause

Correlative (work together

Form and function:

Can do more than one job

Look at the word in context

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