Language Features

Language Features

• Use of present tense.
• Use of complex noun groups to build detailed descriptions, e.g. The enormous expanse of arid land; The rampaging, threatening river.
• Use of abstract nouns, e.g. heat, earthquakes.
• Use of pronouns for words already introduced in the text.
• Usually the subject is not human, e.g. mountains, rain, video.
• Use of sentences that have a clear subject and verb agreement.
• Use of action verbs to explain cause, e.g. from, started from.
• Use of adverbial phrases of time and place to tell where and when actions occurred, e.g. It is to be found in North America.
• Use of connectives to link time sequences in a cause and effect sequence, e.g. first, then, after, finally, so, as a consequence.
• Use of passive voice and nominalization to link the events through cause and effect.
• Use of time conjunctions, e.g. when, as, to sequence and link events and to keep the text flowing. Placing of these conjunctions first in the sentence in order to focus the reader’s attention, e.g. When he reached the summit of the mountain, he felt exhilarated.
• Use of technical terms or word chains about a subject, e.g. a spider falls into the family of arachnids.