Question

Discuss this with your partner and write down another set of responses for activity 1.

What does it tell you? You would have also noticed that the responses vary with reference to the context, the level of formality and also the relationship between the speaker and the listener. Here’s another example to show you how the utterances can be graded starting with the least to the most formal.

• Lunch?
• Coming for lunch?
• Come for lunch with us?
• Why don’t you come for lunch with us?
• Would you like to come to lunch with us?
• We would be really pleased if you could join us for lunch.

Observe how the language changes with the level of formality among friends it can be a few words or phrases and with seniors and elders in formal context, the politeness is maintained along with the use of complete sentences during communication.

Answer 1

1. Thank you. I’m really happy that my efforts have been recognised.
2. Good connectivity is necessary because it helps us work faster and access large files without delay.
3. Yes, it is. It wasn’t too expensive, though.
4. That’s quite all right. Perhaps we can meet some other day.
5. That’s okay. Join us if you are able to manage it.