Question

Read the passage given below and answer the question that follow.
English is a useful language. The people who speak English today make up the largest speech community in the world. A speech Community is similar to other hands of communities. The people who make up the community share a common language. Often they live side by side as they do in a neighbourhood, a village or a city. More often they form a whole country. Many nations are composed of a single major speech community, example Italy, Sweden and Japan. National boundaries however are not always the same as the boundaries of a speech community. Some nations for example, switzerland, Russia and India are made up of many speech. communities.
(a) Which is the largest speech community in the World?
(b) What is one aspect of the people who make up a speech community?
(c) Which are the single major speech communities in the World?
(d) Name to common speech communities that extend across national boundaries.
(e) Pick out the words from the passage which mean same as :
(a) Like (b) made up of
(b) Group of person having the same interests.

Answer 1

a. English is the largest speech community in the world .

b. people who make up a speech communities share a common language .

c. Italy Sweden and Japan are single major speech community in the world.

d. India and Russia

e.....

a. share

b. composed.

c. community.

hope it helps.

Answer 2

a) English speech community

b)