Beth Chappell

The text "morningg!! You hanging?? *laughing cry*" was sent my friend the morning after she went to a festival. The opening "morningg!!" contains non-standard spelling showing the message is informal. The closing; "*laughing face emoji* uses an emoji that reinforces the idea of it being informal and is showing an emotion that may not have been portrayed beforehand. The emoji is being used to help the reader identify the emotions behind the text and realize it's a joke. The colloquialism; "hanging”, which could also be seen as an elision, is being used as a shorter way of asking if the reader has a hangover. By using both of those techniques, I am showing how comfortable I am with the precipitant. The non- standard punctuation "!!" and "??" located in the opening and closing is again portraying the informality of text. Along with this, by using them excessively, I am showing a kind of urgency in the text. I am also using the punctuat...

‘An ode to the hoody’ is an opinion article about the ‘anti hoody government propaganda’. Minsky voices his opinion about how the hoody is a trustworthy “friend” and that people “shouldn’t feel threatened by them”. Minsky uses informal language throughout the article which includes taboo lexis and sarcastic comments. I believe this article’s audience is intended to be for people in their older teens and lower 20’s due to how informal the whole article is, and because of some rather foul phrases for example, the crude metaphor “mouth drier than a nun’s chuff” would be seen as funny to the younger generation and with the context as of which it’s used, it will most likely relate to those over the drinking age but still quite young. I also believe it is directed towards the “pensioners” in charge of the “propaganda”. I think Minsky is making several digs at them to make readers join his side of the battle. During this article Minsky personifies the hoody as being a trustworthy friend;...

English Language Transition Tasks Key words Adjective - Describing word Adverb - Describes a doing word Auxilary/ modal verb - Used to form tenses, moods and voices of other verbs. Conjunction - Conjoins two clauses Definite Article - A determiner. Introduces a noun phrase. Used if a thing has been mentioned previously or is common knowledge. Dynamic verb -  A verb describing a continued action i.e. walking - A moving action Indefinite article - A determiner. Introduces a noun phrase. Implies thing referred to is non- specific. Noun - A class of things, people and places. Preposition - A word to express the relation between nouns. The man on the platform Pronoun - Refers to a particular person or thing e.g. I, she Proper noun - Name of a particular place, person or organisation, always has a capital letter e.g. Beth, Japan, Microsoft Stative verb - A state of being e.g. standing - A still action. Verbs - An action https://www.theguardian.com...