Film-making
Language: film terms, sentence parts and elision
Speak and write precisely.
Film terms: script (the written film); montage (editing shots together); flashback (a jump back into the past); stage prop (an object used on stage); footlights (the lights along the front of a stage).
A sentence has a subject (who or what it is about) and a predicate, which begins with the verb.
- The object answers 'what?' after the verb.
- A complement describes the subject, after a verb like 'be'.
- An adjunct, such as 'in Uppsala', adds extra information (where, when, how).
In 'a very large old apartment', 'very' is an intensifier for the adjective 'large'.
In fast speech, some consonants in clusters drop out (elision): nex(t) day, tex(t)books, mus(t) be.
Find the subject and verb first; listen for dropped t's.
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