The term communicative competence ___ chomsky’s term linguistic competence, the latter meaning knowledge of the language system, or grammatical knowledge in other words.

Among the following writers _______ created the verse novel by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters.

Generally speaking, the __________ specifies whether a certain tagmeme is NOT in the position of the Nucleus or of the Margin in the structure

The committee was satisfied that minor incidents of misconduct or ________ of the chairman had been well handled by the directors within the rules

Travellers, when ____________ the checks, have to sign the checks in the presence of the bank or service clerks

—____________________identify the problems that have been occurring?
—Well, as you know, the problems we had with Gary caused a lot of friction among the team.

The field of artificial _________is a new branch of computer science.

（ ）There is going to be a wonderful party __________ the evening of October 1st, 2009.

Among the branches of linguistics, ____ studies how words are combined to form sentences and the rules that govern the formation of sentences.

The branch of linguistics that studies the systems and patterns of speech sounds in a language is called _____.

According to the writer, the linguistic insularity of British businesses ______.

Among the last groups of people to accept the new model were religious groups, who still ______ the idea that the earth was the centre of the universe.