Q.1 How would you grant or refuse permission in each of the following cases? Use appropriate and different expressions for each situation. (10)
i. Your colleague has requested to work on your computer in your office.
ii. Your younger sibling is asking you to lend him/ her some money.
iii. A passerby wants to make an urgent phone call from your mobile.
iv. Your class fellow wants to get your study material photocopied. v. Your cousin wants to use your brand new camera in his/ her birthday party. Q.2 Select a suitable news editorial form an English newspaper of Pakistan. Read it carefully and then highlight the following. You are required to paste the news editorial on your assignment sheet along with your answers. (10)
i. Topic sentence
ii. Supporting details
iii. Main idea help please
Answers
Answer:
Explanation:
When you're well-bred, you very often have to ask for permission in order to interact with other people. This, of course, is mostly true for kids who cannot, (alas! ), live as they'd like to; yet, even adults have to get permission, sometimes. Besides, we may even be refused the permission we so badly wanted. What's sure is that "you can't always get what you want"!
Therefore, here are different ways of asking permissions, of granting them or refusing them. Be careful, once again, to use the different levels (or registers) of language which are suitable to a situation and to the people you're talking to. These registers cannot be used indifferently.
I) HOW TO ASK FOR PERMISSION?
1. First, polite, or formal requests:
* using "Do you mind/ "Would you mind if + verb phrase"/ possessive adjective+ gerund" :
A verb phrase= subject+ verb; a gerund is a NOUN built from a verb + -ing.
- Do you mind if I smoke in this room?
- Would you mind if I smoked in this room? ("smoked" is the modal past indicating an unreal action- at the moment, I don't smoke! The action isn't real: it's imagined.)
- Do you mind my smoking in this room? ("my smoking"= the action of smoking = :pgb/ "me smoking"= :pus )
* using "it's possible" + infinitive:
- Would it be possible (for me) to bring my own computer?/ Is it possible for me to bring...? = less formal.
* using the verb TO APPROVE OF: = is formal.
- Would you/ Do you/ approve of my delivering the speech? ("me delivering..."= :pus)
II) More common, less formal:
- Do you think I could give a Power Point for next week's presentation?
- Would you let me work in groups, please? ( to let somebody DO something)
III) Using the MODAL auxiliaries CAN/ COULD and MAY:
In order to ask permission, or to grant one, the modal auxiliary to use is MAY and a form which is a sort of substitute TO BE ALLOWED TO:
- Please, Mom, may I go to my friends' party next Saturday?
- Yes, you may go to your friends' party provided you leave when I go to pick you there.
In everyday contemporary English, it has become very frequent to use CAN/ COULD to ask for permission. Yet, CAN may often be considered as rude and harsh. (Prefer the use of COULD.)
i. Your colleague has requested to work on your computer in your office
Sure! No problem, Go right ahead! Anways I am taking a coffe break
ii. I afraid i can't lend you any money. You have been very careless with spending off late
iii. A passerby wants to make an urgent phone call from your mobile
Yes you may! But please make it fast, i need to go somewhere urgently.
Explanation:
Coronavirus outbreak: Zafar Mirza says passengers being screened at border crossing with Pakistan ( HEADLINES)
All passengers are being screened before their entry into the country,” said Zafar Mirza (TOPIC SENTENCE) Dr Zafar Mirza said thus far no case of the deadly virus has come to light in the country. The special assistant said the government stands ready to deal with any eventuality (supporting details.
(main idea is the first/last sentence here)
Meanwhile, the Balochistan govt has imposed emergency in the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) on the directives of CM Jam Kamal (TOPIC SENTENCE). An emergency centre has been set up at Taftan border crossing with Iran with doctors posted to screen Zaireen coming from the neighbouring country (neighbouring details).
(main idea is the first/last sentence here)
It must be noted that Chief Minister Jam Kamal Alyani had a telephonic (main idea) conversation with Prime Minister Imran Khan and his Special Assistant on National Health Services Dr Zafar Mirza to discuss measures to deal with the virus threat (supporting details).
(main idea is the first/last sentence here)