English Version 2.0 / Level 10 / Language / Language for expressing and developing ideas
Content description
analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of particular sentence structures to express and craft ideas
Elaborations
recognising how the focus of a sentence can be changed by using the passive voice; for example, comparing the active voice in ‘The police had caught the thief’ with the passive voice in ‘The thief had been caught’
recognising how authors sometimes use verbless clauses for effect, for example ‘And what about the other woman? With her dark glasses and briefcase.’
recognising that a sentence can begin with a coordinating conjunction for stylistic effect, for example ‘And she went on planning how she would manage it.’
Code
VC2E10LA05
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