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Consider the following verbal exchange: Speaker 1: 'Can I borrow your pencil, please?' Speaker 2: 'Why not?' During this exchange, while assessing students' speaking-listening skills, marks would be deducted for:
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- 1neither, as the communicative context justifies this exchange✓
- 2both, since it is a meaningless exchange
- 3the second speaker, as the response is framed incorrectly
- 4the first speaker, as the question is framed incorrectly
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neither, as the communicative context justifies this exchange
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