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Cohesion vs. Coherence: Untangling the Knot

Cohesion and   coherence. They are often used interchangeably in everyday staffroom chat So what is the difference? In short: Cohesion is the network of surface-level linguistic links that connect sentences and clauses (e.g., pronouns, conjunctions, lexical chains). Coherence   is the underlying logical flow that makes the relationships of ideas evident and meaningful to a reader or listener.…
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The elusive present perfect continuous in the passive

Image from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Jewels_of_the_United_KingdomIn all my years as a teacher, I have been reading about the elusive present perfect continuous in the passive as a classic example of that which is formally possible, the grammatical system of the English Language allows it,  but is never actually done, i.e. ‘used’, by the language community. According to…
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