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Write Precis of the following passage - [7]

Speech is a great blessing, but is can also be a great curse, for while it

helps us to make our intentions and desires known to our fellows, it can

also, if we use it carelessly, make our attitude completely misunderstood.

A slip of tongue, the use of an unusual word, or of an ambiguous word

and so on, may create an enemy where we had hoped to win a friend.

Again, different classes of people use different vocabularies, and the

ordinary speech of an educated man, may strike an uneducated listener

as showing pride. Unwittingly, we may use a word which bears a different

meaning to our listener from what it does to men of our own class.​

Answer 1

Answer:

the above passage is telling about the importance and the result of a speech on a listener

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