Question

Change each of the following sentences into statements with the hedging words or phrases given in parentheses. Click on the light bulb icon to study the Language Skill Presentation.

1. Communicating over the telephone is less satisfying than face-to-face conversations. (usually)

2. In the future, most mechanical speech tasks—such as taking food orders—will be performed by computers. (most likely)

3. Every person benefits from learning a foreign language. (in general / most / can)

4. Learned associations, not natural or innate ones, influenced the results of the kiki / bouba experiment. (appear / could)

5. Relationships among different academic fields are intrusive, yet a broad relevance is what makes linguistics exciting. (may / part of)

Answer 1

1 Communicatinng over the telephone is usually less satisfying than face to face conversations.

2In the future ,most mechanical speech tasks such as taking food orders will most likely be performed by computers.

3 In general every person benefits by learning a language.

4 it appears that learned associations,not natural or innate ones,influenced the results of kiki/bouba experiment.

5 Relationships among different academic fields are intrusive,part of broad relevance is what makes linguistics exciting.