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Common English Phrases Guide

The document lists different types of speech acts including: offering help, asking for directions, asking for permission, giving positive and negative conclusions, expressing likes and dislikes, giving instructions and orders, making predictions and suggestions, apologizing, declining and accepting invitations, agreeing, disagreeing, and asking for confirmation. It then provides examples of sentences using these different speech acts.

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Common English Phrases Guide

The document lists different types of speech acts including: offering help, asking for directions, asking for permission, giving positive and negative conclusions, expressing likes and dislikes, giving instructions and orders, making predictions and suggestions, apologizing, declining and accepting invitations, agreeing, disagreeing, and asking for confirmation. It then provides examples of sentences using these different speech acts.

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Offer of help. Asking for directions. Obligation. Lack of necessity. Asking for advice. Asking for permission. Positive conclusion. Negative conclusion. Likes. Dislikes. Giving an instruction. Giving an order Giving an advice. Prediction. Making a suggestion. Apologizing. Surprise. Declining an invitation. Accepting an invitation. Giving a description. Agreeing. Disagreeing. Asking for confirmation.

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Ill do that for you. Excuse me, can you direct me to the Post Office, please? You mustnt park your car here. You dont have to What should I do? May I go to the cyber caf, please? It must be cold outside. You cant be Hassan. Im fond of basketball. I hate golf.
Youll have to shake this bottle well before you drink the medicine.

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Stop annoying us. You ought to see a dentist. Mona will probably visit us tomorrow. Shall we go to the cinema this afternoon? I am terribly sorry. What a beautiful flower! Oh, sure! Ill come with great pleasure. Oh, Im sorry but Im going somewhere on that day. Shes beautiful, intelligent and hardworking. Youre right! Oh, but thats not quite true. Arent you Loubna?

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