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Describing language
Describing language

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5 Summary of Week 6

This week you have seen that nouns, verbs and adjectives need help to communicate meaning effectively. Some small but important classes of words are needed to help connect the ‘big’ words together. You’ll need to know how to spot these smaller closed class words too if you’re going to describe language effectively.

You also need to put the words you use in the right order. Next week, you’ll see how words can be arranged in particular orders to express different ideas and communicate different kinds of meaning.

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