How would you describe the following in terms of style and register? "Please go and muck out the bay's stable."
Casual style: Stable register
Informal style: Stable register
Frozen style: Agricultural register
Consultative style: Stable register
How would you describe the following in terms of style and register? No Trolleys Beyond This Point
Casual style: Transport register
Frozen style: Transport register
Consultative style: Transport register
Formal style: Shopping register
How would you describe the following in terms of style? "I'll cook the usual Friday dinner, if you like, love."
Casual style
Consultative style
Formal style
Intimate style
How you would describe the following in terms of style? "Mary and Ali Smith request the pleasure of your company at an informal celebration"
Frozen style
Casual style
Consultative style
Formal style
Style affects pronunciation because ...
In consultative style we avoid the use of weak forms
Less formal styles require less care in pronunciation
Less formal settings more readily allow the use of regional and class accents
In formal settings we choose our words carefully
Academic register uses modality differently from football register by ...
... avoiding the use of 'can' to mean permission
... using 'might have' rather than 'could have'
... avoiding modal verbs altogether
... using more hedging such as "It is arguable that ..."
"He takes the red into the centre and that sets up the black into the corner." and "Smith to Jones, crosses to Peters and back again to Smith who fires it into the corner." are examples of how ...
... register affects both grammatical and lexical choice
... style affect grammatical choice
... register affects grammatical choice
... register affects lexical choice
"I don't know about you but I suspect something is rotten in the state of Denmark." is an example of ...
... a quotation from Shakespeare
... frozen style in speech
... casual style
... formal style
The term 'register' can be used to describe levels of formality.