Editing Written language (section)

=== Grammar ===
There are too many grammatical differences to address, but here is a sample. In terms of [[clause]] types, written language is predominantly declarative (e.g. ''It's red.'') and typically contains fewer [[Imperative mood|imperatives]] (e.g. ''Make it red.''), [[interrogatives]] (e.g. ''Is it red?''), and exclamatives (e.g. ''How red it is!'') than spoken or signed language. [[Noun phrase]]s are generally predominantly [[Grammatical person|third person]], but they are even more so in written language. [[Verb phrase]]s in spoken English are more likely to be in [[Uses of English verb forms|simple aspect]] than in perfect or progressive aspect, and almost all of the past perfect verbs appear in written fiction.{{sfnp|Biber|Johansson|Leech|Conrad|1999|p=461}}