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UNDERSTANDING FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR THROUGH RECOUNTS AND REPORTS

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UNDERSTANDING FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR THROUGH RECOUNTS AND REPORTS

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    1. UNDERSTANDING FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR THROUGH RECOUNTS AND REPORTS

    6. RECOUNTS

    8. The genre of a written recount is evident through stages or a series of events: Orientation: provides the reader with background information needed to understand the text (i.e. who was involved, where it happened, when it happened). Event(s): series of events typically ordered in a chronological sequence. Re-orientation: may take the form of a summary statement and / or an evaluative comment and / or a return to the starting point.

    11. GENRE: Language - Structure Simple recounts typically use expressions of time and place to structure the text through features such as: conjunctions eg: First, Then, Later phrases of time and place eg: On Saturday, At the football oval dependent clauses of time and place eg: When we got home

    12. Conjunctions that link across sentences to show logical relationships in recounts build cohesion: temporal - to do with time eg: Then, After, When, While causal - conditional (consequential) - to do with cause/effect, purpose eg: Although, Therefore

    14. Genre: Language Expansion Information in a text is expanded to form compound sentences using linking conjunctions eg: and, but, so, or to form complex sentences using binding conjunctions eg: before, after, when, as relative clauses eg: Adelaide, which is west of Melbourne, is the capital of South Australia. projected clauses eg: I thought that it would be, I knew (that) it would happen non-finite clauses eg: The team, having seen the opposition, decided to

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