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Communication can be described as an exchange of ideas and feelings, and also as the successful giving and receiving of information.
The choice of words and their arrangement in sentences is very important if one wants to convey the message correctly.
DISCUSSION
What frustrates you about giving or receiving a verbal message?
How many times are you misunderstood?
Do these misunderstandings cause ... confusion? … chaos?
Maybe even anger between you and someone else?
Look at this interesting sentence:
“Hastily summoning an ambulance, the corpse was taken to the morgue.”
1. Who called for the ambulance ___ the corpse?
2. How should this sentence have been written?
If you wish to communicate effectively and successfully, you will need to be clear in that which you say and write.
Exercise 1
How should the following sentences be written so that they communicate the intended meaning in each case?
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Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Words that are confusing. Select the correct word from the brackets:
Exercise 4
Correct the faults in the following sentences:
[LO 3.6; 4.4.1; 5.1.5]
Exercise 5
Rewrite each of these sentences, omitting unnecessary words.
[LO 5.1.1]
MAGIC MEMORIES
Exercise 1
Find the blocks in which there are words missing capital letters. Rewrite the words correctly:
wolraad woltemade | swim | false bay | britain |
evidence | waratah | Tuesday | vessel |
cape town | harbour | mystery | the argus |
captain smith | wreck | steamship | adderley street |
Exercise 2
Correct these sentences, filling in the capitals where they have been omitted:
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