Features of Language

1. 1. She heard a loud bee buzzing by her ear, but it was actually a sea breeze.

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2. 2. "When he said, 'Can you pass the salt?' he was actually making a request, not asking a question."

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2. 3. "The addition of the suffix '-ly' turns 'quick' into 'quickly' to indicate speed."

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4. 4."His rising intonation at the end of the sentence made it sound like a question."

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5. 5. "The book was read by her," shows the passive voice construction.

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6. 6. "Her smile was a ray of sunshine" uses a metaphor to describe the brightness and warmth of her smile.

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7. 7. "The words 'happy' and 'joyful' are both conveying a positive emotional state."

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7. 8. In English, the typical word order is subject-verb-object, as in 'She eats apples.'"

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