When planning your answer, look at both YES and NO sides of the argument and argue the strongest side. It’s important that you convey and argue your opinion strongly, tentative language can be thrown out of the window here, you have to seem confident and head-set.
If you are going to include the counter-argument, make sure it’s brief and even slate it.
For example if you’re Q is: Modern technology is improving language, not killing it’ and you were arguing YES:
Yes, language is improving because….. While Jean Aitchison mentioned that a prescriptivist’s view of this change is that language is like a ‘crumbling castle’ and needs preserving, this is implying that language was once perfect.
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