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Commonly Misspelt Words:
Sentence
Audience
Interest(ing)
Accommodation
Necessary
Grammar
Alliteration
Assonance

Onomatopoeia
Euphemism
Connotation
Status
Persuade
Persuasive
Narrative

Many names: Sapir-Whorf; Chomsky; Zimmerman; Fishman

Error	Correct Form	Reason
alot; infact; aswell	a lot; in fact; as well	All are two word phrases
It maybe that the poet intends...	It may be	May be is a verb phrase. If you could replace it with “might be”, then it’s the verb version and should be two separate words, rather than the word “maybe”.
could of/ should of/ would of	could have; should have; would have	This is the past conditional. It sounds like “of” sometimes because of how we speak, but really this would be written “would’ve”.
I have wrote it this way because...	I have written it...	Wrote is the simple past - I wrote. It cannot be used with an auxiliary.
The Lexis in this text is informal, with Colloquialisms like “gonna”	The lexis in this text is informal, with colloquialisms like “gonna”	Framework terms are not proper nouns and do not need capitals.