Our co-worker says, "It's awful in here." To understand what she means, we must
A) take into account extralinguistic information, such as location and facial expressions.
B) examine the grammatical structure of her comment.
C) examine the morphemes in the statement to determine the smaller units of meaning in the sentence.
D) ignore nonverbal cues so that we are not distracted.
Answer: A
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