Which item in the following set of claims has the most negative emotive meaning?a. Conversation is not Daryll's forte.b. Daryll descends from simple folk, you know, "people of the earth."c. Daryll is not very clever.d. Daryll would lose a duel of wits with a gum ball machine.

What will be an ideal response?


These are easy to answer; the point is to consider how many positive and negative ways there are to say essentially the same thing, and then to learn to control the emotive meaning of one's own remarks. Besides, these can be fun.

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