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Meenakshi Majumder 2021-22
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Non-fiction texts
1. Informational text is written with the intention of informing the reader about a specific topic.
2. A biography is a work written in third person that gives an account about the life of a person.
3. An instruction text gives instructions on how to complete a task.
An instruction text is a piece of non-fiction text that gives instructions on how to complete a task. Also
called an instructional text, or an instructive text. The text may include organisational devices such as bullet
points or numbers, diagrams, and pictures.
4. Persuasive writing is used to convince the reader to agree with the author about an issue.
5. A balanced report text is one that discusses all points of view of a particular story and then leaves it to
the readers to make up their minds.
While planning a non-fiction text always keep in mind: Audience, purpose, language and layout
Features of a magazine article
1. Headings – Should be clear and attractive
2. Lede - Introduces a reader to an article. A summary of the article.
3. By-line - The author's name, usually written under the lede of the article or sometimes at the end of the
article.
4. Sub-heading - Indicates what the next set of paragraphs is going to talk about.
5. Pictures/images – to give a visual effect of the article.
6. Caption – A brief description about the image or picture.
7. Callout – A short piece of text enlarged to attract readers’ attention, usually a quote.
8. Side bar – Holds extra information that is not in the article, may be a photo, a graph, chart.
Grammar
Prefix: A letter or group of letters added to the beginning of a word (before the root word) to change
the meaning or make a new word.
Pre, post, re, dis, de, im, il, in
When a hyphen is used in between the prefix and the root word the meaning changes.
Recount means recall, recollect.
Re-count means count again.
Suffix: A suffix is a letter or group of letters added at the end of a word (after the root word) which makes a
new word.
Ment, logy, y, ly, ing
Relative pronouns: A relative pronoun is one which is used to refer to nouns mentioned previously, whether
they are people, places, things, animals, or ideas. The most common are which, that, whose, whoever, whomever,
who, and whom.
Command verbs or Imperative verbs: verbs that create an imperative sentence (i.e. a sentence that gives an
order or command).
Example: hold, draw, wash, start
Countable nouns: are for things we can count using numbers. They have a singular and a plural form.
Example: eggs, banana
Uncountable nouns: are substances, concepts etc that we cannot divide into separate elements. We cannot
"count" them.
Example: salt, sugar
Quantifier: used to express an amount or degree of something.
Example: much, bit, little, few, several, enough
