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In the fourth paragraph, the discourse markers “although” and “thus” indicate, respectively,
In the first sentence from the third paragraph “Discourse competence is concerned not with isolated words or phrases but with the interconnectedness of a series of utterances, written words and/or phrases to build a text, a meaningful whole.”, the underlined word functions as a cohesive device, and the expression “to build” can be replaced, with no change in meaning, by
A word with a silent gh, as in “through” (line 1), is also found in alternative:
At the lexical level, competence includes the recognition and use of longer stretches of language such as the underlined expression in “an interdisciplinary field of inquiry having to do with the social rules of language use”. The same meaning for the expression is found in alternative:
According to the second paragraph, grammatical competence helps interpretation of words. Thus in the phrase “whole sentences” (paragraph 2), grammatical structure helps identify the underlined word as an adjective; in “a meaningful whole” (paragraph 3), the underlined word is a noun. Sentence structure allows the identification of the word “quiet” as a noun in alternative: