SECTION A
Question 1
1. What are the two obvious types of communication used by the author of the text “Are You
Teaching Your Kids to Body-shame?, which is provided in section B of this assignment?
The two obvious types of communication used by the author are verbal communication (through
written words) and non-verbal communication (through the tone and implied messages behind the
words) (Bailey, 2018).
Question 2
2a) What kind of grammatical error do the following sentences have in common?
i. Two of my siblings lives in the Western Cape.
ii. The students who live in the hostel has no bicycle.
iii. Bongani and Thabo is travelling next week.
iv. Lungile drink two litres of water every morning.
v. One of the lecturers have been promoted.
The grammatical error in all of the sentences is related to subject-verb agreement (Wyse et al.,
2024).
2b) Correct the error in each of the five sentences.
i. Two of my siblings live in the Western Cape (ENG1514, 501. 2023).
ii. The students who live in the hostel have no bicycle (ENG1514, 501. 2023).
iii. Bongani and Thabo are travelling next week (Bailey, 2018).
iv. Lungile drinks two litres of water every morning (Bailey, 2018).
v. One of the lecturers has been promoted (Wyse et al., 2024).