ENGA3 - making your examiner happy
It's just one day until ENGA3, so here's a quick post to wish you luck and to offer a few suggestions to make your examiner look upon you favourably. Quote helpfully You should be using quotations from the texts you're analysing in your answers, but make sure they're helpful quotations. What's the difference between 1 and 2 below? The writer uses the noun phrase "the foul degradation of our language continues apace" to support his prescriptive view of language change. The writer uses the noun phrase " the foul degradation of our language continues apace" to support his prescriptive view of language change. In short, 1 is wrong and 2 is right. That's because the quote used in 1 isn't actually a noun phrase, but a whole simple sentence/independent clause, while the quote in 2 actually specifies which bit is the noun phrase. I don't doubt that the person answering in the first one knows what they mean, but they're not making it eas...