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- 15:58, 6 July 2020 Present participle clause (hist) [419 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''Present participle clause''' is a participle clause with a present participle as its head, and which acts as an adverbial clause. These have the form: *...")
- 03:28, 6 July 2020 Occupational health and safety (hist) [866 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Occupational health and safety''' (OHS) involves people's health and safety in a work environment, such as a classroom. Though teaching is generally not a part...")
- 07:33, 5 July 2020 Attributive tag (hist) [135 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An '''attributive tag''' or '''author tag''' is a tag that attributes some text to someone. category:tags category:index")
- 14:40, 4 July 2020 Glottal stop letter (hist) [263 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''glottal stop letter''', ʔ, is a symbol used to represent a glottal stop sound in IPA.") originally created as "ʔ"
- 04:57, 4 July 2020 South African English (hist) [207 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''' South African English''' is the dialect of English spoken in South Africa.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_English</ref> == References == <...")
- 02:43, 3 July 2020 Bar chart (hist) [190 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''bar chart''' is a type of chart; the categories for a bar chart should be non-continuous and usually it's best to put whitespace between the bars to distinguish it from a...")
- 12:34, 2 July 2020 Speculation (hist) [222 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Speculation''' (/ˌspekju:ˈleɪʃən/) is a "conclusion to which someone comes by speculating; conjecture."<ref>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/speculation</ref> == R...")
- 07:24, 2 July 2020 Intensive pronoun (hist) [274 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An '''Intensive pronoun''' is a pronoun used to add emphasis, e.g. "I did it myself". In English, these take the same form as the reflexive pronouns, but thei...")
- 04:45, 2 July 2020 Construct validity (hist) [478 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Construct validity''' (/ˈkɒnstrʌkt vəˈlɪdəti:/) is test validity relating to the test construct; that is "the degree to which a test measures what it cla...")
- 13:47, 1 July 2020 Parenthesis (hist) [699 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Parentheses''' /pəˈrɛnθəsɪs/ (singular, parenthesis /pəˈrɛnθɪsɪs/)<ref> (also called simply brackets, or round brackets, curves, curved brackets, oval brackets,...")
- 13:40, 1 July 2020 Down-right arrow (hist) [258 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''down-right arrow''' is an arrow symbol symbol consisting of an arrow pointing down-right. <center><font size=1000%>↘</font></center> In IPA this is us...") originally created as "↘"
- 13:38, 1 July 2020 Up-right arrow (hist) [287 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Up-right arrow'''<ref>Also known as a north-east arrow</ref> is a symbol consisting of an arrow pointing up and to the right: <center><font size=1000%>↗</font></...") originally created as "↗"
- 12:39, 1 July 2020 Exclamation (hist) [272 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An '''exclamation''' (/ˌekskləˈmeɪʃən/) is "A loud calling or crying out, for example as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc." - typically uses interjections....")
- 11:59, 1 July 2020 Portuguese as a foreign language (hist) [364 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Portuguese as a foreign language''' is Portuguese as a foreign language. In Portuguese, this is "''português (como) língua estrangeira''" (PSE); the correspondin...")
- 11:10, 1 July 2020 Business letter (hist) [281 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''business letter''' is a letter that conducts business. There are genre conventions<ref>https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/professional_techn...")
- 06:35, 1 July 2020 Reason (hist) [462 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''reason''' (/ˈri:zən/) is "that which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause."<ref>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reason</ref> Reason can be expressed...")
- 05:18, 1 July 2020 Analogy (hist) [333 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Analogy''' (/əˈnæləʤi:/) is a cognitive process of transferring information or meaning from a particular subject (the analogue, or source) to another (the target), or...")
- 04:57, 1 July 2020 Home (hist) [2,825 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Home''' (/ˈhəʊm/) is an English word meaning "one’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with...")
- 03:07, 1 July 2020 Place pronoun (hist) [878 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''place pronoun''' is a pronoun that expresses place. In English, there are three of these; "here", "there" and "where". Here and there express ...")
- 14:53, 30 June 2020 Sufficiency (hist) [461 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Sufficiency''' is an adequate amount of something. Contrast insufficiency and excess. Sufficiency is typically expressed with the modifier "enough", which can be...")
- 12:40, 30 June 2020 Red herring (hist) [911 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''red harring''' is an item in the text that is deliberately intended to mislead (confuse comprehension). These are quite common in testing, especially liste...")
- 08:05, 30 June 2020 Health (hist) [338 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Health''' (/ˈhelθ/) is a state of physical, mental and social well-being in which disease and infirmity are absent.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health</ref> How...")
- 05:15, 30 June 2020 Emotion (hist) [418 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An '''emotion''' is a biological state associated with the nervous system brought on by neurophysiological changes variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioural re...")
- 05:13, 30 June 2020 Disgust (hist) [517 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Disgust''' (/dɪsˈgʌst/) is a emotional response of rejection or revulsion to something potentially contagious or something considered offensive, distasteful, or unpleasa...")
- 02:44, 30 June 2020 Deictic antonym (hist) [805 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''deictic antonym''' is a type of antonym where words are antonymous due to deixis. In English this applies to some deictic verbs and determiners, and de...")
- 02:13, 30 June 2020 Deictic verb (hist) [494 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''deictic verb''' is a verb that references deixis. In English the single-word deictic verbs are "come"/"go" and "bring"/"take". These are deictic antonym...")
- 15:28, 29 June 2020 Media studies (hist) [284 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Media studies''' is an academic field that deals with the content, history, and effects of various media; in particular, the mass media.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.or...")
- 14:50, 29 June 2020 Insufficiency (hist) [584 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Deficiency''' or '''insufficiency''' is "the lack of sufficiency; a shortage or inadequacy."<ref>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/insufficiency</ref> In English, insuff...") originally created as "Deficiency"
- 14:16, 29 June 2020 Histogram (hist) [442 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''histogram''' is an approximate representation of the distribution of numerical or categorical data<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histogram</ref> Surprisingly...")
- 12:10, 29 June 2020 Excess (hist) [748 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Excess''' is "the state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or proper"<ref...")
- 06:24, 29 June 2020 Place relative clause (hist) [441 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''place relative clause''' is a relative clause that describes place. In English, there are two ways of doing this; (1) with where and (2) with which or that....")
- 05:19, 29 June 2020 Toilet (hist) [1,479 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''toilet''' (/ˈtɔɪlət/) is "a piece of hardware used for the collection or disposal of human urine and faeces"<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet</ref> Asking...")
- 03:29, 29 June 2020 Tourist (hist) [96 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''tourist''' is a person who engages in tourism. category:people category:index")
- 03:14, 29 June 2020 Asking for directions (hist) [812 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Asking for directions''' is a language function employed when the asker wants directions to somewhere. In English, we use phrases like: * "Where is the [place...")
- 02:34, 29 June 2020 Japanese as a foreign language (hist) [263 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Japanese as a foreign language''' is Japanese as a foreign language. In Japanese, this is known as 外国語としての日本語 (Romanisation: Gaikoku-go to shit...")
- 02:20, 29 June 2020 Russian as a foreign language (hist) [646 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Russian as a foreign language''' is Russian as a foreign language. In Russian, this is "''Русский как иностранный язык''" (Romanisation: R...")
- 02:06, 29 June 2020 Italian as a foreign language (hist) [496 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Italian as a foreign language''' is Italian as a foreign language. In Italian, this is known as "''Italiano come lingua straniera''"; the corresponding term fo...")
- 01:58, 29 June 2020 Chinese as a foreign language (hist) [446 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Chinese as a foreign language''' is Mandarin Chinese as a foreign language. In Chinese, the term used is 中文作为外语 (pinyin: Zhōngwén zuòwéi wàiy...")
- 14:01, 28 June 2020 Superficial passive (hist) [333 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''superficial passive''' is a lexical-grammatical structure that uses the passive voice but has no active voice equivalent. * be bound to * be meant to...")
- 13:06, 28 June 2020 Learning objective (hist) [127 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''Learning objective''' is an objective of a learning activity. category:index Objective")
- 11:41, 28 June 2020 Inverted conditional (hist) [1,243 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An '''inverted conditional''' uses inversion within a conditional clause. In English this can only be done with two verbs; "be" and "have" (though not oth...")
- 10:16, 28 June 2020 Phrase adverb (hist) [444 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''phrase adverb''' <ref>Not to be confused with an adverb phrase</ref> is an adverb that modifies a word or phrase, rather than a sentence as a senten...")
- 00:15, 28 June 2020 Africa (hist) [171 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Africa''' is a continent<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa</ref> == References == <references/> category:continents category:index")
- 00:08, 28 June 2020 South America (hist) [233 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''South America''' is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_America</ref> == References ==...")
- 11:37, 27 June 2020 Bring your own device (hist) [156 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Bring your own device''' (BYOD) involves allowing students to use their own personal electronic devices (e.g. laptops, etc) in class.")
- 04:05, 27 June 2020 Topic sentence (hist) [361 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''topic sentence''' a topic sentence is a sentence that summarises the topic of a paragraph.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_sentence</ref> It is usually t...")
- 03:21, 27 June 2020 Nominal sentence (hist) [329 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''nominal sentence'''<ref>(also known as equational sentence, or nonverbal sentence</ref> is a sentence without a finite verb. These are uncommon in English. T...")
- 15:04, 26 June 2020 German as a foreign language (hist) [633 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''German as a foreign language''' involves German as a foreign language. In German itself, this is known as "''Deutsch als Fremdsprache''" (DaF) - there is a cor...")
- 14:08, 26 June 2020 Professor (hist) [418 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''professor''' is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profess...")
- 07:05, 26 June 2020 Another (hist) [594 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Another''' is an English word that can be used as a determiner or pronoun. It is a compound of the indefinite article "an" and the word "other"...")
