Suppose that you hear about a research project in linguistics that is exploring the topic called discourse. Which of the following would be the most likely topic for this research?
a. "How do students pronunce individual letters within a word?"
b. "Can students recognize the grammatical category of words?"
c. "Are students aware of the past tense of verbs?"
d. "What are students' ideas about how a story should end?"
Ans: d
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