Communication Basics 101
Evolution of Language
Grammar? Hardly Know Her!
Parts of Speech
It's All Interpersonal
200

The communication process consists of an ongoing exchange of information between these two parties.

Sender and Receiver

200

This Ancient Greek philosopher observed that the human being is "by nature a social animal".

Aristotle

200

An "independent clause" is just a fancy, technical term for this.

Complete Sentence

200

This type of noun refers to a specific person, place, or thing, and therefore requires capitalization.

Proper Nouns

200

Although we have not perfected it yet, we attempt to replicate body language by using these in writing... A popular signifier among cell phone users.

Emoji

400

A writer or speaker will do this with their language in order to encapsulate an intended message.

Encode

400

This camp of evolutionary linguists believe that human beings' capacity for language developed fairly suddenly in the evolutionary chain... Like some 10,000 years suddenly.

Discontinuity Theorists

400

This technical term refers to the condensing of two words into one... Lazy human beings.

Contraction

400

This 'part of speech' is used to join or connect other words, phrases, or clauses within a sentence.

Conjunctions

400

In this phase of every conversation, speakers will usually refer to another time, date, and/or place for future communication... 15,000 years and no sign of stopping yet.

Closing (or, Conclusion)

600

A reader or listener will do this in an attempt to understand the intended meaning of a writer or speaker.

Decode

600

This evolutionary biologist believed that human beings' capacity for language was first derived from the imitation of sounds being made by other animals.

Charles Darwin

600

A "colloquialism" refers to this type of word or phrase.

Slang (or, Informal)

600

This 'part of speech' is also used to identify the time in which something occurred.

Verbs

600

This phase in every new conversation is often dreaded by introverted individuals.

Small Talk

800

This mnemonic device refers to a word being formed from the first letter of other words.

Acronym

800

In the earliest stages, human beings' languages largely consisted of this type of word... still very prevalent and active among languages today.

Nouns

800

A complete sentence always consists of both a subject... and this.

Predicate (or, Verb Phrase)

800

This 'part of speech' is used to modify nouns by providing a description of people, places, and things.

Adjectives

800

While "social intelligence" refers to an adherence to unspoken rules of etiquette, this type of intelligence refers to our ability to read the feelings of another person.

Emotional Intelligence

1000

Every writer and speaker is responsible for selecting this mode best suited to their audience's needs.

Rhetorical Mode

1000

This gene found in many vertebrates, including bats, songbirds, and human beings, is often regarded as "the language gene".

FOXP-2

1000

A comma linking two independent clauses without a conjunction is known as this.

Comma Splice

1000
Although they provide no additional meaning, this 'part of speech' is often used to express deeper feelings and emotions.

Interjections

1000

Human beings' natural instinct to imitate the body language of the person with whom we are speaking is referred to as this by psychologists.

The Chameleon Effect (or, Mirroring)

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