Chapter 3: Supporting Details
Exercise 2

Directions

Read each passage. Then click on the letter of the correct answer to each supporting detail question.

Question

A. (1) Parents worldwide use a special speech pattern when talking to babies. (2) Called “baby talk,” this form of communication differs from normal speech in a number of important ways. (3) First, it has a distinct pitch that is higher than that of normal language. (4) Another feature of baby talk is that its vocabulary is simpler and more concrete than the vocabulary in regular speech. (5) Baby talk also uses shorter sentences than those used in normal language. (6) Finally, baby talk uses more questions, commands, and repetition than does day-to-day language.

A1. In general the major details of this paragraph are
 
 
 
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