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Use various verb types (e.g., doing, saying, being/having, thinking/feeling) and tenses appropriate to the task, text type, and discipline (e.g., timeless present for science description, mixture of past and present for narrative or history explanation) on a variety of topics.

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Use an expanded set of general academic words (e.g., affect, evidence, demonstrate, reluctantly), domain-specific words (e.g., scene, setting, plot, point of view, fraction, cell membrane, democracy), synonyms, antonyms, and figurative language to create precision and shades of meaning while speaking and writing.

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Use knowledge of morphology to appropriately select affixes in a variety of ways to manipulate language (e.g., changing observe → observation, reluctant → reluctantly, produce → production, and so on).

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Use various verb types (e.g., doing, saying, being/having, thinking/feeling, reporting), tenses (e.g., present, past, future, simple, progressive, perfect) appropriate to the task, text type, and discipline (e.g., the present perfect to describe previously made claims or conclusions) on a variety of topics.

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Use an expanded set of general academic words (e.g., cycle, alternative, indicate, process, emphasize, illustrate), domain-specific words (e.g., scene, soliloquy, sonnet, friction, monarchy, fraction), synonyms, antonyms, and figurative language to create precision and shades of meaning while speaking and writing.

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Use knowledge of morphology to appropriately select affixes in a variety of ways to manipulate language (e.g., changing destroy → destruction, probably → probability, reluctant → reluctantly).

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Use a variety of verbs in different tenses (e.g., present, past, future, simple, progressive, perfect) appropriate to the task, text type, and discipline (e.g., the present perfect to describe previously made claims or conclusions) on a variety of topics.

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Use an expanded set of general academic words (e.g., specific, contrast, significant, function, adequate, analysis), domain-specific words (e.g., scene, irony, suspense, analogy, cell membrane, fraction), synonyms, antonyms, and figurative language to create precision and shades of meaning while speaking and writing.

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Use knowledge of morphology to appropriately select affixes in a variety of ways to manipulate language (e.g., changing destroy → destruction, probably → probability, reluctant → reluctantly).

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Use a variety of verbs in different tenses (e.g., past, present, future, simple, progressive, perfect) voices (active and passive), and moods (e.g., declarative, interrogative, subjunctive) appropriate to the task, text type, and discipline (e.g., the passive voice in simple past to describe the methods of a scientific experiment) on a variety of topics.