Functional Words and Language Creativity Assignment

Assignment Task

Questions

1. Explain, in your own words, why functional words, as opposed to content words, are limited in number. 

2. Name three functions of language that are connected with the creative feature of human language. 

3. Creativity as a feature of human language is also referred to as productivity or openness. List four words that have been created to describe interaction on social media because of this feature of language.

4. Function is a grammatical concept that refers to the roles that a word or a phrase can perform based on the position the word, or the phrase occupies in a sentence. Read the following sentences carefully and indicate the function that the noun phrase in bold performs:

i. The Zondo Commission submitted the final report last year.

ii. Pitso has bought the Ferrari.

iii. The students entertained the chairperson of the school board.

iv. Miss Loliwe loves apple juice. v. Floyd is a boxer.

5. Give one justification for why the following sentences can be identified as either a Simple, Compound, Complex or Compound Complex sentence:

i. The talented singer who performed at the concert came to the party at the weekend.

ii. Although I am not very good, I really enjoy playing rugby.

iii. Serena struck a beautiful backhand shot, but the return was even of a better quality.

iv. Thabo could not travel and Thembi could not leave the house because they had to quarantine.

v. I am writing my English examination today.

The following sentences contain tense errors. Rewrite the sentences in the correct tense:

i. We were waiting at the reception when the man suddenly emerging from the door.

ii. The Mercedes driver swerved to avoid the accident, otherwise it will be fatal.

iii. The professor explained the concepts methodically until it is going to be clear for everyone.

2: Application-Text-based Questions

1. What type of phrase is “Since a young age” in Paragraph 1? 

2. What function is the phrase identified in 1a performing in the sentence? 

3. What is the tense expressed in “has been shaped” in Paragraph 1? 

4. Write out the verbs that are in the same tense in Paragraph 2 

5. In which tense are the verbs you have written out?

6. Which other verb apart from the ones written out in 2a is in the paragraph?

7. Why has the author predominantly used the tense you identified in

8. 3. Paragraph 3 starts with the noun phrase “An avid reader since his childhood”, identify and write out the following from the phrase: The head noun The pronoun

9. Another noun iv. The article v. The adjective 

10. Write out five of the proper nouns found in the Paragraph 

11. State if the verb “has” in the first sentence of Paragraph 5 is used as an auxiliary or as a main verb. 

12. Read the first sentence of Paragraph 5 carefully and explain why it is written in the simple present tense.

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