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Both tenses are used to narrate a past action. The preterite is used for a completed one-off action in the past, whereas the imperfect tense would be used for an ongoing action in the past that hasn't been c...

Both endogenous and exogenous factors shape the character of a place. Endogenous factors are internal influences on the identity of a place. These can be related to the location of a settlement, the topograp...

In a downturn, it is easy for households, and firms to reduce spending, but difficult for suppliers to reduce prices. A big input that drives this is wages . It is very hard to negotiate wages downward in a ...

The biggest question to ask yourself when analysing a new poem is 'why?' - why does the writer use those specific words or that literary device? What effect does that have? It is easy to spot that a poet use...

To understand what we mean by 'blank verse', we must first understand what is meant by metrical feet and a rhyming structure. A metrical foot describes how a line of poetry is measured by the number of and t...