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• A message is the particular content that the sender wishes the receiver to understand.
• A communication channel forms the link between the sender and the receiver.
• A receiver is the person who intends to receive, decode and interpret the message sent by the sender.
• Decoding can be defined as the receiver interpreting the message and coming to an understanding about what the source is
communicating.
• Feedback is the receiver’s reaction or response to the sender’s message.
• A perspective defines a person’s views, ideas or way of thinking.
• Factors affecting perspectives in communication are:

 Conceptual Clarity  Past Experience  Environment
 Visual Perception  Prejudice  Channel
 Language  Feelings  Culture
• Writing skill is the ability to write sentences and paragraphs correctly with proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
• Punctuation is a set of marks that are used in writing.
• A phrase is a group of words that stand together as a single unit, typically as part of a clause or a sentence.
• A sentence consists of a subject and a predicate. The subject tells us who or what a sentence is about and the predicate tells us
more about the subject.
• The parts of speech explain how a word is used in a sentence. There are eight main parts of speech–noun, pronoun, adjective,
verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction and interjection.
• A paragraph is a series of sentences that are organized and coherent, and related to a single topic.
• Most paragraphs have a three-part structure — Introduction, body, and conclusion.

Self-Assessmentlf-Assessment
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A. Tick () the correct option.
1. The word communication is derived from the Latin word:
comic communicare comeback coming
2. Communication involves at least:

one person zero person two person all the above
3. Written communication is performed through a:
written document gesture eye contact speech

4. Body movements include:
hand gestures nodding arm-crossing all the above
5. Article ‘an’ is used before the words that begin with a:

consonant vowel
both vowel and consonant neither vowel nor consonant
6. Anika wants to read the book. In this sentence, ‘Anika’ is a/an:

Noun Pronoun Adjective Verb
7. Imran has come here. He is a popular singer. In the second sentence, ‘He’ is a:
Noun Pronoun Preposition Conjunction

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