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One of the main things to remember when it comes to an A Level English Language essay is that you have a completely different aim to when you are writing an English Literature essay. Whilst during Lit ess...

Sophie, aged 4-8 in the transcripts, demonstrates a profound development in her written language skills through her lexis, grammar, orthography and graphology. This is due to the contextual nature of the ...

A transitive verb expresses some kind of action. It is any word that a primary school teacher might have taught you as a 'doing word'. examples include kick, read, run.

A stative verb expresses som...

Semantics refers to meaning, whereas pragmatics refers the deeper inferred meaning. For example, if I were to ask you a simple question such as, “Would you like a cup of coffee?”, the semantic meaning of ...

“Lord of the Flies”, a novel written by William Golding, tells the story of boys who survived on an island after the plane’s crash. After the accident, the competition between two main characters, Ralph a...