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Unit 3: Language over Time (A2)

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How has English changed over time, and how do you analyse and compare texts from different periods in Unit 3?

Language change over time: how English has changed in lexis, semantics, grammar, orthography and graphology from earlier periods to the present, and the theories that explain change, applied to the comparison of texts.
How to answer WJEC Unit 3 Language over Time: analysing diachronic change in lexis, semantics, grammar, orthography and graphology across texts, and the theories (substratum, functional, prescriptivist and descriptivist) that explain why English changes.
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