Functional Styles
This style's function is simply to inform and states only facts.
What is the Newspaper functional style?
This is the most stable word layer, universal in character and not restricted in use.
What is the Neutral layer?
Numerically, this stock of words is considerably larger than the native stock.
What is the borrowed stock of words?
These are words with the same sound but different spelling and meaning, like air and heir
What are Homophones?
The only morphological category of the noun that is almost always marked in present-day English.
What is the category of number?
This functional style aims to form public opinion and convince the reader or listener.
What is the Publicistic functional style?
This layer includes words like slang, jargonisms, and vulgarisms
What is the Colloquial layer?
Words like father, mother, and brother belong to this oldest native element
What is the Indo-European element?
The most general term in a synonymic group that potentially contains the specific features of all other members
What is the Synonymic dominant?
The functional parts of speech, which include conjunctions, prepositions, and articles
What are Conjunctions, Prepositions, Particles, Exclamations, and Articles?
This functional style is subdivided into oratory, essays, and articles in newspapers and magazines
What is the Publicistic functional style?
This layer's common property is its markedly bookish character
What is the Literary layer?
This term is applied to the language from which a word was immediately borrowed
What is the "source of borrowing"?
This class of morphemes includes inflections and affixes, carrying grammatical or generalized lexical meaning.
What are Non-root or affixational morphemes?
The grammatical arrangement of 'unequal' constituents, as seen in a complex sentence
What is Hypotaxis?
The most noticeable feature of the grammar in this style is its compositional pattern with a stereotyped form.
What is the Official Documents functional style?
Terms, learned words, and poetic words are subgroups within this main layer.
What is the Literary layer?
The Norman Conquest in 1066 led to a major influx of words from this language.
What is French?
Antonyms that are mutually opposed and non-gradable, such as male and female
What are Contradictory (or complementary) antonyms?
In English, the form –'s on a noun, as in my father's house, is also called this case.
What is the Possessive case (or Genitive case)?
This style has a specific function to inform the reader and impress them aesthetically
What is the Belles-lettres functional style?
The group of words comprising common literary, neutral, and common colloquial words.
What is the "Standard English Vocabulary"?
This type of borrowing is an expression formed from existing English elements according to the pattern of a source language, like "the moment of truth".
What is a Translation loan?
Morphemes that can function both as an affix (like in well-known) and as a free morpheme (like sleep well).
What are Semi-bound (or semi-free) morphemes?
A sentence that consists of more than one main clause, with one or more of those main clauses containing a subordinate clause.
What is a Compound-complex sentence?