Language features used when writing to instruct
- Created by: CharlGoddard
- Created on: 31-05-15 10:17
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- Writing to instruct
- Imperatives- put the end in the bowl
- Prepositions- fold the egg under the flour
- Denotative lexis- facts
- Jargon- specialist words
- Filed specific lexis- whisk, beat, fold
- Concrete nouns, e.g bowl
- Modal verbs- should, could, can
- Conditional clauses- if, when
- Adverbial phrases- In 2 minutes times
- Discourse markers- next, finally, after
- Bullet points- well structered
- Simple sentences
- May use second person- you do this- addressing to the reader directly
- parenthesis- add extra information between brackets and dashes
- Anaphoric reference- put it in the bowl
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