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• Colloquialisms
  ...e page on [[informal expressions]] for more examples and types of informal expressions. Some general issues and features of colloquial writing style.
  6 KB (792 words) - 06:14, 24 November 2019
• Hedges
  These are longer expressions that act like epistemic hedges. These expressions hedge the speaker’s commitment to the truth value of statements (truth qu
  6 KB (820 words) - 06:52, 1 November 2019
• Copula
  ...e omitted in certain expressions that sound literary or poetic, especially expressions borrowed and translated from Latin. In Latin, copulas are usually expressed This poetic flavor shows up occasionally in a few colloquial or slang expressions.
  4 KB (557 words) - 01:34, 16 October 2020
• Unprofessional tone
  * Subjective first-person expressions, e.g., "I think, we believe" * Overuse of quotations and quoted expressions
  6 KB (818 words) - 11:31, 9 June 2023
• L2 writing problems (global issues)
  * An introduction that is anecdotal, informal, colloquial, or general * Self-announcing expressions instead of an actual thesis
  9 KB (1,341 words) - 06:03, 22 November 2019
• Subject-verb agreement
  Expressions of quantity or amount are considered a single unit and require a singular v This includes partitive expressions with numerals, that is, noun phrase expressions in the form of NUMERAL ''of'' X. However, if the noun phrase is intended to
  14 KB (2,268 words) - 01:15, 20 November 2019
• Informal expressions
  ...d less appropriate for such types of writing or discourse, and more formal expressions are preferred. It might be okay to use a few of these in certain contexts, Informal expressions, compared to their more formal counterparts, may be distinguished by the fo
  21 KB (3,059 words) - 04:48, 25 November 2019
• Teaching discourse markers
  ...n writers have with conjunctions (접속사) and other connector or transitional expressions in English academic writing. ...entence with these words, but overusing them can make your paper sound too colloquial, so using a greater variety of conjunctions is better. It is not good forma
  13 KB (2,040 words) - 09:22, 5 February 2020
• Logical connectors list
  <nowiki>*Indicates more colloquial, informal, or non-academic expressions. </nowiki>Comma & punctuation guides: [http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ http:
  7 KB (978 words) - 07:13, 28 October 2019
• Clearer wording guide
  ...less precise, and depend very much on the context. They are very common in colloquial speech because of their flexibility in informal communication. For academic ...lead to overuse of ''be, have, there is/are''. Instead, use more specific expressions.
  29 KB (4,487 words) - 05:51, 23 November 2019
• Connectors (transitionals)
  ...ectors include most conjunctions, as well as conjunctive adverbs and other expressions that have been pressed into service as connectors. Most of these connectors ...eaking. These can sometimes come at the end of the sentence, especially in colloquial style, as more of an afterthought without the nuance of emphasis.
  20 KB (2,940 words) - 10:44, 6 February 2020
• Preposition
  ...optional i.e. they may be deleted with some temporal phases, especially in colloquial discourse. ...up, and such. Often, these are extended to temporal meanings, such as time expressions and other references to times and events, e.g., “it’s over” = “it h
  11 KB (1,750 words) - 06:54, 29 January 2020
• Discourse markers
  The term discourse markers encompasses several types of words and expressions. Here, the term '''discourse marker''' (DM) refers to a word or phrase that ...eaking. These can sometimes come at the end of the sentence, especially in colloquial style, as more of an afterthought without the nuance of emphasis.
  23 KB (3,383 words) - 07:22, 28 October 2019
• Collocations
  ...ord combinations, that is, words that usually go together in commonly used expressions in normal daily use. More specifically, a collocation is set of words or te ...tive + noun expressions, verb + preposition combinations, and phrasal verb expressions. Knowledge of collocations can pose a challenge for those learning a langua
  16 KB (2,592 words) - 11:48, 20 December 2023
• Korean discourse markers
  ...ns; these include words like ''well, okay, uh.'' Comment clauses are whole expressions that have been reduced, stripped of their original meaning, and used as dis | col. || colloquial || &nbsp;|| pause || pause, hesitation
  15 KB (1,682 words) - 04:29, 17 June 2023
• Cohesion
  ...viously. This is called discourse anaphora, which is used in reformulation expressions in academic writing like those below. ...ng or having a property, rather than a simple description. Otherwise, such expressions sound weak, and can be replaced with with or a stronger verb.
  13 KB (1,965 words) - 02:18, 12 January 2017
• Sentence types
  The following sentence types are informal, colloquial, or conversational. ...sitional expressions (e.g., ´´then´´), subordinate clauses (종속절), or other expressions to show time and sequence?
  11 KB (1,726 words) - 02:15, 1 September 2023
• Korean English errors
  * An introduction that is anecdotal, informal, colloquial, or general * Self-announcing expressions instead of an actual thesis or topic sentence (E.g., instead of saying "In
  37 KB (5,673 words) - 04:39, 25 November 2019
• Verb+preposition errors
  ...ct terms used by ESL/EFL learners (English as a second/foreign language) . Expressions with the greater sign [>] indicate that one expression is preferred or mor ...have many more publications besides / in addition to these. (‘besides’ is colloquial)
  11 KB (1,951 words) - 03:05, 1 September 2023
• Hyperbole
  Hyperbole is used in a number of common expressions and familiar phrases such as these. ...exaggerated that they may come across as insincere or dishonest. Thus, in colloquial English, ''hyperbole'' has been shorted to ''hype'', with the meaning of ex
  6 KB (1,170 words) - 08:24, 7 October 2022

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