onnotations of comfort and luxury, again helping to stress the extravagance of the ship.

The paragraphs are much shorter than the earlier text, which is common in tabloid papers. For example “Happily, everyone survived but it all could have been so different,” stands on its own as a paragraph. There is much less detail in the Sun article than in the earlier piece, reflecting a sign of the times.

Features of spoken language are also used occasionally. For example, the writer directly addresses the reader, “you see”. By using the second person pronoun, “you”, the writer gives the illusion that he is talking directly to the reader, allowing for a more informal relationship to be formed. “And then the launch,” by using an incorrect sentence (where a conjunction is employed to start a sentence), a more conversational tone is applied, again helping to create a more informal, direct address. To create a more formal address, sophisticated lexis is used through the piece for example “…warning the philosophers about the grain of sand mightily influential…” and “labouring with trained minds and obedient bodies.” This adds to the sense of the occasion, and helps to set a more formal tone, suggesting a more credible author.

However the Modern English article is much, much shorter and approaches the “near-disaster” much differently. Unlike the natural, more calm and unnerving title from the e

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Touch Nature”, , Modern English, newspaper articles, “one touch nature”, provoking negative connotations, touch nature”, sense spoken voice, difference texts, earlier text, “one touch, sense spoken, spoken voice, actual sinking, thousands pounds, earlier piece,