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• Sociolinguistics studies the relationship between language and society.
• It examines how language varies according to social class, age, gender, region, and social situations.
• It also studies dialects, accents, and language variation.

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• Reference is a cohesive device that connects parts of a text.
• Example: “Ali is a student. He is hardworking.” The pronoun “He” refers to Ali.

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• Pragmatics studies how context affects the meaning of language.
• The same sentence can communicate different meanings in different situations.

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• I know that he is honest.
• “That he is honest” is a subordinate clause.
• It cannot express a complete meaning independently in this sentence.

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• Unhappiness consists of three morphemes: un + happy + ness.
• A morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit of a language.

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• A minimal pair consists of two words that differ by only one sound, usually one phoneme, while the rest of the word remains the same.
• In "Pin" and "Bin," the only difference is the initial consonant sound (/p/ vs /b/), making them a minimal pair.

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تشبیہ علمِ بیان کی ایک اصطلاح ہے جس میں ایک چیز کو کسی مشترک خوبی کی بنیاد پر دوسری چیز جیسا قرار دیا جاتا ہے۔

تشبیہ میں عموماً جیسے، کی طرح، مانند، گویا کے الفاظ استعمال ہوتے ہیں۔

مثال: علی شیر کی طرح بہادر ہے۔

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Series: 2, 4, 6, 8, ?

This is +2 series.

2 + 2 = 4

4 + 2 = 6

6 + 2 = 8

8 + 2 = 10

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• The complete sentence is: “I drew a painting of a girl while her mother was watching.”
• The phrase “was watching” uses the past continuous tense.
• It describes an action that was happening at the same time as another past action.

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• Pronouns and certain adjectives help connect ideas and sentences in a text.
• Pronouns such as he, she, it, and they refer to previously mentioned nouns.
• This is called reference, a grammatical device of cohesion.
• Cohesion makes different parts of a text grammatically and meaningfully connected.

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