"opress" - 1 õppematerjal

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" 3 ,,They are worse than schoolteachers" These examples show that adherent connotation may be positive (brainless) or negative (students, schoolteachers). The type of context is important for creating adherent connotations. Negative connotation 1 The sentence may contain grammatical negotiation (has not) e.g science (neg.meaning) hasn't got a soul. Can't help itself. 2 The closeness of words with inherent negative connotations. Adj: obscene, corrupt, filthy, vulgar, ignorant Verbs: hate, opress, loath Nouns: stupidity, vice, fool, etc e.g I saw myself as Hummy would see me, uneducated and vulgar and working-class. (neutral) 3 The neighbourhood of vulgar words: e.g And you couldn't forget your bloody principles for one night. 4 With the use of certain intensifiers: merely, only, too, too much, horribly, perfectly, even, so. e.g They were too clean, too neatly arranged, too new. 5 Repetition of a word in a sentence, e.g You are sitting here, comfortably preaching about it