Text, paragraphs and sentences have purposes. The
communicative purpose of the excerpt “Cardio can be anything
that keeps your heart racing for the entire time, including biking,
swimming, dancing… you name it!” (line 41-43) is to:
Tag questions are short questions normally used to check
information or ask for agreement. The right tag question for “Now
let’s talk about diet” (line 29) is:
Processes of word formation such as Derivation (“suitie” -
(line 25)) and Clipping (“fave” - (line 45)) present in the source text
suggest that it aims most specifically at:
The connective in “Skin cancer kills more young women than
any other form of cancer, yet we still don’t wear sunblock” (line 7-8)
links the clauses in terms:
A text is cohesive if, as a whole, its sentences are linked and
make sense. An example of cohesion in the source text is “ If not”
(line 4), which is characterized by:
An idiom has been defined as a lexical item (usually a phrase
or a clause) whose meaning cannot be derived from the sum of its
parts. The idiom in “summer is just around the corner” (line 1-2)
means that “summer is:
The English verb phrase can be marked for tense and aspect.
The use of the perfect tense in “Where has time gone?” (line 1),
establishes the following: