If payment is not received, legal action will be our only ________.

Searle's classification of illocutionary acts is based on the classification of performative verbs.

______ of a sentence depends on the context in which the sentence is uttered.

Younger children are curious ________ how things work ，and many of them want to take apart everything within their reach.

In classifying the English consonants and vowels, the same criteria can be applied.

_______ is a fact that English is being accepted as an international language.

The basic unit in the study of morphology is ______.

Empirical studies show that the process of SLA is a process of constructing and modifying rules of communication.

The old couple have been married for 40 years and never once _______ with each other.

A compound is the combination of only two words.