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...English and Italian. In languages such as Czech where the word order is less prescribed, Yoda is switched back to the "Subject – Verb – ​Object" word order you would typically expect in normal French, which is actually stranger sounding to native Czech speakers! Will you be able to help Maître Yoda to correct his French syntax? Here is a little exercise for you to...

...English poems and novels. Dr Frank Pearson (ex-OU student in Geoscience) presents his interpretation of William Blake's 'The Tyger' as a contradictory force, both creative and destructive, within the context of the French Revolution and our current situation. He explores Blake's ideas of art, poetry and perception traced in this poem and his wider writing and how they are...

...everyday life. And thirty per cent said that they themselves were using explicit language more than they used to five years ago. Language with sexual or misogynistic connotations in particular was now felt to be less acceptable Just three years later, however, the very same organisation revised their own guidelines and recategorised a number of films because they felt the...