The Communication Standards
and Linguistic
Difficulty
The communication
standards ask students ,to use the text as a model for
expression, and so they focus on the speaker's use of their
own cognitive center plus the active voice (no need for
subjective mood or passive voice). Typical sentences
generated to fill these standards only have subjects and
verbs + prepositional phrases ("I love dances") or direct
objects ("You have the sweetest eyes"). They will use
modals to express various speech acts ("You shouldn't say
that!") and frequently negate those usages ("I will / will
not do that!").