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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