grouping texts
In this essay I will group 2 texts (Matilda and The Jungle Book) grammatically. I have chosen to focus on a variety of grammatical features within the chosen texts and how they can be grouped together through similarities, differences and context.
Firstly, the tone of Matilda is imperative-like, it consists of grammatical features which make the tone imperative-like. The main part of Matilda which supports the tone is ‘something had to be done about it’. In The Jungle ‘Wood and Water LAWS’, fulfils the genre of listing.
Furthermore, Matilda is a text narrated by the author and so it is in 3rd person. It is a text grammatically correct. Likewise, The Jungle Book is in 3rd person and narrated by an author.
In the text Matilda it has a theme of adverbial times at the start as well as the end, this is structured very well. The text begins with ‘there had not been time yet to find out’ and ends with ‘as soon as possible’. In the text The Jungle Book the theme is rather conditional and lists rules ‘how to tell a rotten branch from a sound one’.
The character of The Jungle Book is made the subject ‘The Boy’ i.e. it is active. In the text Matilda the subject is about what this child had done, the child is not made the subject, the sentence is passive. Furthermore, The Jungle Book doesn’t necessary make clear the tense of the text, it simply informs the reader of this boy and what he does, Matilda is rather clear with its tense. It is clearly written in present tense, we can say this as the text say ‘there had not been time YET’. The adverbial times support the tense in this text.
There is a use of an auxiliary verb in Matilda which helps complete the sentence ‘had to BE done’, without the sentence would be grammatically incorrect. Likewise in The Jungle Book there is a use of an auxiliary verb ‘could’ without it the sentence would not be like the Matilda text correct.
Within the text of The Jungle Book there is parallel phrasing evident ‘as well as he could swim,
Firstly, the tone of Matilda is imperative-like, it consists of grammatical features which make the tone imperative-like. The main part of Matilda which supports the tone is ‘something had to be done about it’. In The Jungle ‘Wood and Water LAWS’, fulfils the genre of listing.
Furthermore, Matilda is a text narrated by the author and so it is in 3rd person. It is a text grammatically correct. Likewise, The Jungle Book is in 3rd person and narrated by an author.
In the text Matilda it has a theme of adverbial times at the start as well as the end, this is structured very well. The text begins with ‘there had not been time yet to find out’ and ends with ‘as soon as possible’. In the text The Jungle Book the theme is rather conditional and lists rules ‘how to tell a rotten branch from a sound one’.
The character of The Jungle Book is made the subject ‘The Boy’ i.e. it is active. In the text Matilda the subject is about what this child had done, the child is not made the subject, the sentence is passive. Furthermore, The Jungle Book doesn’t necessary make clear the tense of the text, it simply informs the reader of this boy and what he does, Matilda is rather clear with its tense. It is clearly written in present tense, we can say this as the text say ‘there had not been time YET’. The adverbial times support the tense in this text.
There is a use of an auxiliary verb in Matilda which helps complete the sentence ‘had to BE done’, without the sentence would be grammatically incorrect. Likewise in The Jungle Book there is a use of an auxiliary verb ‘could’ without it the sentence would not be like the Matilda text correct.
Within the text of The Jungle Book there is parallel phrasing evident ‘as well as he could swim,