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English / Year 9 / Language / Text structure and organisation

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Curriculum content descriptions

Understand how punctuation is used along with layout and font variations in constructing texts for different audiences and purposes (ACELA1556)

Elaborations

experimenting with the use of colons and semicolons in expositions and other extended writing to improve precision and clarity of expression
investigating instances of colons and semicolons in expository texts and discuss their uses in elaborating on and clarifying ideas in complex sentences

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ScOT terms

Punctuation, Complex sentences

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