Friday, 18 May 2018

COMPONENT 2A - 20 MARKER GUIDANCE

Spelling - Historical/Archaic Aspects and Terms



§Extra final –e (vowel) or you could say appended –e or inflected vowel

§Doubling (vppon, natural, seurall) and Single consonants (maners)

§Omission of medial e: wherby, somtimes

§Omission of final e: diuers

§Interchange: I/Y or U/V for example

§Inconsistencies or idiosyncratic spelling

§Phonetic spelling

§Loan Words : French/Latin or borrowing (like the text A in travel writing example)







Key Words in the Question



§In each of the questions there are two key words.  These are:

§Q1: word class and archaic spelling pattern (SPELLING)

§Q2: word class and variation.  In this question you can also make reference to language change concepts like; reference to 1755 dictionary, spelling inconsistency and standardisation (SPELLING & PUNCTUATION)

§Q3: Form (word class with detail – third person present tense inflection) and archaic grammatical feature (GRAMMAR)

Question 4
Grammatical St
ructure & Punctuation







§You will not score any marks for comments on archaic spelling and lexis

§Here, you need to simply name/state the grammatical structure and/or punctuation feature and give an EXAMPLE

§You should revise by studying the practice questions we’ve completed and corrected

§The next slides will give you reminders of what you could select:

Grammar

§Inversion (word order).  Explain which words are ‘inverted.’  Example,  “Here sheweth the man…” (Inversion of auxiliary and subject)
§Position of adverbs (word order).  Example, “He presently giueth it are maruelously delighted.” (adverb before lexical verb)
§Negation (verb phrase).  Example, “Some planet that loves not.” (Negator placed after lexical verb)
§Multiclausal (sentence type). Example, “Here God sheweth, that it is…that honoureth thee, and that it is…that taken thee.” (All cluases begin with relative pronoun or connective)

PUNCTUATION

§NOTE FROM THE EXAMINER:  Your answer must move beyond observation.  Appropriate terminology should be selected to describe and explain usage.
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§Position of full stops, commas, colons and semi-colons where it is different from PDE usage
§Random capitalisation; lack of sentence initial capitalisation
§Absence/presence of possessive apostrophes (or inconsistencies)
§The frequency of commas
§Emergence of semi-colons (where today we’d use a full stop)
§Absence/presence of question marks for direct speech
§Use of hyphens to create compounds (Hyphenated compounds)










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