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Brief Answer questions:
a. Write a sentence and identify nucleus in it.
b. Write sentences to differentiate spoken and written English.
c. What is zero article? Write an example.
d. Write two sentences to illustrate
e. Give group nouns for: sailors and cats.
f. Differentiate Role and Standard with examples.
g. What is end focus? Give an example.
h. Write a sentence to show the generic use of 'the'.
i. Put the stress mark in major words: He decided to go out.
j. Write one sentence each for Intention and Insistence in terms of volition.
Read the following passage and answer the questions asked below:
According to Hargie, 'the internet has transformed business communication'. Communication theorists and IT experts point to the phenomenal expansion in the number of email addresses and Web connections. they also highlight a study of email traffic in one large company where 60% of the messages received by this means would not have been received by other channels. Emails has become an indispensable communication tool in modern organizations.
Another recent survey found that 53% of UK business people felt that the use of email had increased their level of communication, and 28% suggested that staff felt more involved in the company after the introduction of email.
There are cultural differences in the patterns of business communication. A survey by the Pitney Bowes Company in 1999 suggested that whereas US and Canadian staff preferred asynchronous or time-delayed communication, European staff preferred real-time and more formal methods. There was a very heavy use of voicemail in the USA (90% of the staff), less in the UK (58%) and much less in Germany (32%).
Another rather frightening statistic from this last survey-that the average British worker receives 171 messages per day-suggests that information overload is a real problem. Researchers such as Charles Oppenheim suggest that this overload 'seems to screw people up. The sheer pressure is immense. Once again there are cultural differences, with overload being much more serious in countries where there is most use of the internet. This reinforces the need for systematic staff training in these new technologies-training that discusses more that which buttons to press.
Comprehensive Questions
a. What does the phrase 'email traffic' mean?
b. How has email changed the way organizations communicate?
c. What are some of the drawbacks of using email as a form of organizational communication?
d. Why are staff trainings in new technologies necessary?
e. Give a suitable title to the passage.
Write an essay on "Online Learning: Opportunities and Challenges" in about 250 words.
Changes the following sentences as indicated in brackets.
a. Don't try to conceal anything from us. (into less formal)
b. Want something to eat? (into Written English)
c. He realized little about the damage he had done. (into subject-operator inversion)
d. I shall report you to the Principal if you did this again. (into Reported Threat)
e. If you had invited me, I would surely have come to you. (into conditional with inversion)
Divide the following sentences into tone units and put the Rising, Falling or Fall Rise Tone symbols accordingly:
a. What is your ambition?
b. Do you drink? Sometimes.
c. Unless you improve, I won't believe you.
d. She is an anchor, isn't she?
e. His sister, who is a doctor, is quite popular.
Write a sentence each to illustrate the examples of the following:
a. Species noun
b.
d. Present event
e. Perfect progressive
f. Of-construction
g. Time-when (prepositional phrase)
h. Condition + contrast
i. Hypothesis
j. Linking signal (reformulation)
Give one sentence each to illustrate the following:
a. Echo question
b. Question about alternatives
c. Vocative
d. Reported command
e. Tactful disagreement
f. Place adverbial
g. Small talk
h. Seasonal greetings
i. Degree with limit word
j. warning
Change the following sentences into wh-type or it-type cleft sentences.
a. I want to read the other book.(Wh-type)
b. We need some more funds.(It-type)
c. My father went to Europe in 1987. (It-type)
d. He spoilt the whole thing. (Wh-type)
e. She is a brilliant reporter. (Wh-type)
Write the meaning of the following sentences on the basis of the scope of negation underlined in each of them.
a. Crime does not necessarily pay.
b. He definitely has not taken the job.
c. I really do not mind waiting.
d. They were not at home for the whole day.
e. I do not completely know him.