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Examine how evaluative language can be varied to be more or less forceful (ACELA1477)

Elaborations
  • exploring how modal verbs, for example ‘must’, ‘might’,’ or ‘could’ indicate degrees of probability or obligation
  • distinguishing how choice of adverbs, nouns and verbs present different evaluations of characters in texts
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Attitudes,  Adverbs,  Linguistic modality

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