WorksheetsDirect and indirect speech acts
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 3mins
1. Choose true or false:
An utterance is seen as a direct speech act when there is a direct relationship between the structure and the communicative function of the utterance.
True
False
2. Identify the three basic structures and its communicative function in the direct speech acts.
Interrogatives for making statements, declaratives for asking questions, and imperatives express commands.
Declaratives for making statements, interrogatives for asking questions, and imperatives express commands.
Declaratives for making sentences, imperatives for asking questions, and interrogatives to express commands.
3. “Take some photos!”, it has the function of….?
for making statements
for asking questions
express commands and/or requests
4. Performative verbs such as order, advise and promise are used to make a direct speech act.
True
False
5. There is an indirect relationship between the form and the function of the utterance.
True
False
6. In an indirect speech act which utterance element demonstrates a different meaning?
The form
Function
7. The question: Could you pass me the salt? is:
A direct speech act
An indirect speech act
8. One of the objectives of the Indirect Speech act is…
To avoid providing directives
To avoid to sound exaggerated
To avoid conventional implicatures
To analyze the utterance without context
10. A rhetorical question is a…
Command intended to be a genuine request for information.
Apelative sentence intended to be an ingenuine answer.
Request intended to be genuine information.
Interrogative sentence but is not intended to be a genuine request for information.
9. The indirect speech acts can not be used to make polite requests.
True
False
