Word Order/Ordstilling
The Danish term to describe whether the subject or the verb comes first.
What is "ordstilling" (word order)?
This text focused on the themes of war and PTSD.
What is "Three Soldiers"?
The -'s in the following sentence is an example of this grammatical structure: "Boris Johnson's politics has challenged the UK."
What is the genitive?
The term describing the change made throughout a work, for example in This is England when Shaun goes from being an insecure teenager to being part of the skinheads.
What is character development?
The correct version of this sentence:
The girls was playing ball.
What is:
The girls were playing ball./The girl was playing ball.
With direct order (ligefrem ordstilling), this comes first.
What is the subject?
In this William Carlos Williams' text, our sympathy shifted from being with the doctor to being with Mathilda, the little girl suffering from diptheria.
What is "The Use of Force"?
The -s in "policies" in the following sentence demonstrates this grammatical structure: "Boris Johnson's policies have challenged the UK."
What is the plural?
A short prose narrative tightly constructed around few characters, a single, characteristic situation or event, which often ends with a surprising, though not illogical ending.
What is a short story?
"The lady with the fur coat and her dog walked home every day." in the present tense.
What is:
The lady with the fur coat and her dog walk home every day.
The vast majority of inversion (omvendt ordstilling) is used in this type of sentence.
What is a question?
This was the message in President Trump's Inaugural Address.
What is we will make America great again -or- There is yet hope -or- The people shall no longer suffer -or- We will bring back jobs/factories/money/safety -or- The people have decided and we can dream again.
This is the plural of salmon.
What is salmon?
The literary device where the beginning of a phrase is the same several times in a row.
What is an anaphore?
This determines the conjugation (bøjning) of the verb (verbum, udsagnsord).
What is the subject (subjekt, grundled)?
Name two adverbs that must be followed by inversion (omvendt ordstilling).
What are hardly and no sooner?
(rarely, scarcely, seldom, never, neither, nor, only, not only, not until, not before, not once)
"Is Public Speaking Really That Scary?" is this genre.
What is an article -or- interview?
This type of genitive is used with objects (things) and to avoid confusion.
What is the "of-genitive"?
A term used to describe when more than one meaning is communicated at the same time. For example in Three Soldiers when the father asks, "White meat, or dark?", the reader understands the meat to be the turkey and the victims the soldier has seen killed both at the same time.
What is ambiguity or double entendre?
When the subject is in this person/form, the verb ends with an -s in the present tense (præsens, nutid).
What is 3rd-person singular (3. person singularis/ental)?
When adverbs like "never" and "rarely" are not placed in the beginning of the sentence, this happens.
What is direct order (ligefrem ordstilling)?
This was the name of Shaun's mother in "This is England.
Who is Cynthia?
Y is NOT changed to -i + es after this.
What is a vowel?
This mode of persuasion is used prevalently in political speeches and was the main mode of appeal in Trump's Inaugural Address.
What is a pathos?
Collective nouns (kollektiver) take the singular OR the plural depending on whether the individual members or the entire unit is acting. Here are two examples:
What are family and class? (...band, choir, government, team, herd, army, flock, crew...)