TELEPHONE CALL VOCABULARY IN ENGLISH

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Telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell, which is one of the greatest inventions of the betterment and comfort of mankind. We have a telephonic conversation almost every hour. Having telephonic conversations has become a part of our daily routine. Tring! Tring! Hello, who’s calling? Do you talk on the phone? Do you talk for long hours or short period of time? If I talk about myself, I talk a lot on the phone and usually, tell friends about the conversation I had. While talking to friends, people often are seen in search of new words and phrases. Maybe you too require it. If you want to tell someone about the conversation you had, or while talking on the phone the call got disconnected, or the person on the other side was not audible. So, In this telephone call vocabulary, we will be learning new words and phrases for the situations. Let’s have a look. 1. Dead – battery ran out   e.g.- I am so sorry, my phone went dead. 2. Engaged – If the line’s busy, call
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DIFFERENT WAYS TO SAY “YES”

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YES


There are lot of options to the word “Yes” have jumped up in the English language, but has same meaning. Today, we are going to look at those some of the options that can be used to express yourself more clearly.

According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word  “Yes” is sketched as

  • To give positive answer or reply to a question, request or offer.
  • To state accord with an earlier statement or to say that statement is true.
  • To introduce a statement that corrects or disagrees with an earlier negative statement.


We have several ways to say “Yes” in English for informal as well as formal situations.

INFORMAL

When you are in informal situation, you will often go for informal language. For instance, when you are speaking to your friends or family, you would probably respond with “Yup” instead of being formal “absolutely”.

  1. Yes
  2. Ya
  3. Yep
  4. Yup
  5. YAAAS
  6. Totally
  7. Sure
  8. Ok
  9. K
  10. Okay
  11. Okie Dokie
  12. Alright
  13. Alrighty
  14. Sounds good
  15. For sure
  16. Sure thing
  17. Yeah, sure
  18. Cool

FORMAL

When you are in formal situation, it is important to speak or write using formal language. Classically, you should evade short forms, abbreviations and slang.You can answer with numerous of the following versions of  “Yes”.

  1. Certainly
  2. Definitely
  3. Of course
  4. Gladly
  5. Indubitably
  6. Absolutely
  7. Indeed
  8. Undoubtedly




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  1. kiranMarch 5, 2019 at 9:49 PM

    Great kiran madam keep it up....

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  2. BCAMarch 6, 2019 at 5:49 AM

    Thank you for your suggestion, but it's very difficult for me

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  3. UnknownApril 2, 2019 at 7:10 AM

    doing good job.......i like it

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