Spoken discourse: usually informal, verb-based phrases, more fragmented , more coordination , inability to conceal mistakes , is longer than the other , has more hedges and quantifiers, less complex words , shorter linguistic unit , fewer attributive adjective, more contextualization , is less lexically dense , spread out over a number of clauses , less coherent sentences , Fewer nominalisation , Written discourse: tend to more formal  , There is no contraction , tables,formulas and charts can be observed , elobarate  , longer linguistic units , more subordinate clauses , more structurally complex , has longer noun groups , Different structural forms can be observed , less uncompleted and reformulated sentences , tightly packed into individual clauses ,

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