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!").

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