Identifying features of a biography in preparation for writing about Darwin
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I can identify the features of a biography.
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A biography is a non-fiction text written about someone's life.
Linguistic features of a biography include third person, formal fronted adverbials, formal tone and relative clauses.
Structural features of a biography include a title, paragraphs and information grouped by theme.
A biography is usually written in chronological order and will contain lots of past tense verbs.
Additional factual information can be added to a clause as parenthesis.
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