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[hela]

Dear members,

If you were to comment on a tone of a particular sentence and that this one is an exclamation, would say that this sentence is written "in an exclamatory tone" ??

Is the word "tensional" appropriate in this context? If not, when is it used?

If you were to ask a student to justify their answers would you say "Justify your answers in sentences" ? By the way what do you call the question that precedes an exercise?

Thank you very much for your help,
Hela

[LucentShade]

"in an exclamatory tone" is fine.

"tensional" is a word, and though I can tell what it means, I've almost never seen it used. The word "tense" is much more common. (An example might be "His joints were damaged by tensional stress"~tensional is more of a technical term)

One common way I've seen to phrase that is "Explain your answers in complete sentences," but "justify" could work as well.

One term for a question like that is a "prompt." (This is different from "prompt" as an adjective that means "immediate.")

[hela]

Thank you Lucent