Halyna D. Malyk Speech Acts and Events

Discourse Completion Practice

1. 
   Supply an appropriate response to each of the following:
   

1. 
   What are these books doing here? – …
   
2. 
   How many times do I have to tell you? – …
   
3. 
   These exams need to be graded. – …
   
4. 
   What happened to the duster? – …
   
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2. 
   Supply an appropriate response to each of the requests taking into consideration the refuser’s status.
   

1. 
   – We have an exam tomorrow but I don’t have notes from last week. I am sorry to ask you this, but could you please lend me your notes once again?
   

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– O.K., then I guess I’ll have to ask somebody else.

2. 
   As you know, I’ve been here over a year, and you’ve been pleased with my work. I really enjoy working here, but to be quite honest, I really need an increase in pay.
   

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  … ………….
  

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  Then I guess I’ll have to look for another job.
  

3. 
   Superior: If you don’t mind, I’d like you to spend an extra hour or two tonight so that we can finish up with this work
   

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  …………….
  

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  That’s too bad. I was hoping you could stay.
  

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