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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 essays...

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 cla...

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 something unp...

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 tha...

“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 and ...