In this English essay, I will research and evaluate examples of phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. I will also provide examples of the modern English language today and how it affects gender using two types of social media platforms and how they have changed and developed the English language today. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an Original Essay Phonology is the way sounds work in language; we find different words that sound the same but with different letters. For example, the words "bat" and "cat" sound the same but have different initial letters. Another example of this is the word "meet", when we change the "m" to "n" it becomes "clean". Although these two words are spelled differently, they still sound the same. Morphology is the way words are structured; the way words are broken down to add meaning, for example, the word "thoughtfulness" can be broken into three separate words, "thoughtful" and "full", but "ness" is an added adjective that refers to a quality or a condition. When it comes to syntax, it goes hand in hand with morphology as it is the arrangement of words and sentences. The social networking site Twitter has had a huge impact on the English language today. With the one hundred and forty character limit, we see a more creative approach to the English language. By using shortened versions of words and even converting words into numbers such as the number "4" for the word "for" or the number "2" for the words "to" and "too", a tweet on Twitter could be "I" I'm going to the grocery store to get some milk.' This could also be an influence from when text messaging was first introduced and having to pay for each letter (Messieh, N. 2016). Replacing words with symbols to take up less space is also popular when using Twitter, replacing "e" with "&" or "at" with "@". For example, "see you at school." When it comes to gender, we see some differences in the tweets. Justin Bieber has 90.5 million followers but doesn't tweet often. When he tweets, he is usually always grammatically correct, using capitalization where it should be. “Great night. See you again tomorrow, London” (Justin Bieber, 2016) is a good example of correctly capitalizing 'great', 'see' and 'London'. Ariana Grande uses Twitter daily. Even though he doesn't always use grammar correctly, he tweets very lovingly towards his fans. “once I... haaaaave you.... I will never let you... I will never let you, I will never let you... go” (Ariana Grande, 2016) with this tweet you can see that it is not grammatically correct, has used the ellipsis incorrectly, the absence of capitalization and more than one "A". The only part of his tweet that is grammatically correct is the comma inserted between "never let go." With these examples we can see the difference quite clearly, it could be suggested that males tweet more formally and professionally while females use this platform more creatively. Another newer social media platform is Snapchat, a photo messaging app that has fewer than 100 characters; we see a more creative approach to expressing a simple image with words. In snaps, you can use emojis and stickers that could indicate someone's mood without having to write anything. Emojis are used frequently in today's language, informally on many social media platforms and in text messages; using them in an important business email is very informal. A simple emoji of a sick face can immediately tell a person that you are sick, or even a sun emoji to indicate that the weather is.