A mother and her four-year-old daughter here at the grandmother referred to the weather outside as it’s raining cats and dogs the mother tends to get one meaning from this phrase while her daughter is hoping for a lot of new parts in understanding the phrase it’s raining cats and dogs the mother and daughter are experiencing a difference in

a. syntax.
b. phonemes.
c. semantics.
d. grammar.


Ans: c. Semantics.

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