What are some ways in which oral style differs from written styles?

What will be an ideal response?

(1) The average sentence is shorter in oral communication; (2) You use fewer different words when you speak; (3) You also use a larger number of short words such as it and the. In fact, fifty simple words constitute almost half of your speaking vocabulary. (4) You refer to people more often with words like I, you, me, our, and us. (5) You use more qualifying words such as much, many, a lot, and most. (6) Your language choices are more informal, and you use more contractions.

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

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A university professor is conducting a study about why Americans watch a popular new sitcom. Which of the following groups would be a nonprobability sample for this research?

a. Students randomly selected from the professor's classes b. Subjects who are randomly selected from volunteers who responded to acommercial for the study that had been placed in the sitcom c. Volunteers who responded to a commercial for the study that had beenplaced in the sitcom d. All of the above

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