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Old 07-Jul-2008, 06:41
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HAI,
THE VERY TERM FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE DENOTE, THE TERMS WE USE FOR THE APPLICATION OF LANGUAGE,for example ,in english language we use, conjunctions like but, yet, however, despite to compare or to contrast the sentences.example though it rained heavily the players played,here though actsas a word to give contrasting meaning like this in english language we are having so many functionsas:
EXPRESSING CONTRAST
OFFERING SUGGESTIONS
ACCEPTING HELP
REPORTING
MAKING SUGGESTIONS
EXPRESSING ASSUMPTIONS
DEFENDING A POINT OF VIEW
EXPRESSING PREFERENCES
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