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• Standard English refers to a style of language used to suit a setting where the audience is large, not personally known, or in authority.
• standard English is perceived as official and an appropriate choice of style in media writing and by teachers, the education system (grammar books and dictionaries), the court, the church, in newspapers,
• Standard English sets a certain set of rules for the English language in terms of grammar,

  syntax and lexis.
• Standard English is a clear style

  of English that can be understood by a wide audience.
• The word ‘Standard’ refers to the use of its use of standardised vocabulary and grammar which

  excludes the use of slang and incorrect grammar.
• Standard English started as a regional dialect that developed in the southeast of England.
• Standard English

  It can be spoken in a vast range of regional accents or without any regional pronunciation
• The regionally neutral accent is referred to as Received Pronunciation (RP).
• Received Pronunciation (RP) is a social dialect, not a geographical one, because it is not linked to a particular region.
• The term ‘Standard English’ described a form of the English language that was universal or common in the nineteenth century
• nonstandard dialects have a distinct grammar, lexis and pronunciation and vary greatly throughout the United Kingdom
• Nonstandard dialects are more accurate than Standard English.
• Speakers from "lower classes" tend to use nonstandard dialect features more excessively, because they are more likely to have left education earlier, have non-professional jobs
• Trudgill (1990:13) states in The Dialects of England that ‘it [Standard English] is not even legitimate to claim that it is more “acceptable” than other dialects, unless we specify who it is acceptable to’.
• Standard English is the 'educated norm'
• standard language is a variety of language that is used by governments, in the media, in schools and for international communication.
• There are different standard varieties of English in the world, such as North American English, Australian English and Indian English.
• Non-Standard English is the accents, the dialects, the vocabulary that vary according to where you live, or what social group you are in.
• Alright - all right
• Considered as- considered to be
• in comparison to - in comparison with
• Somewhat - kind of
• regarded as - regarded to be
• Regardless - Irregardless
• would have -would of might have- might of should have- should of
• Thus -Thusly
• Utterance stress is the relative degree of prominence given to various words in an utterance.
• Speech Melody may be defined as the variations in the pitch of the voice in the connected speech.
• Timbre (or voice quality) can be defined as a tonal colouring of the speaker’s voice which helps to convey some meaning.
• Pause is a break between phonation pieces.
• Tempo can be defined as the speed of speaking.
• Rhythm is a regular, repeated pattern of sounds or movements.
• Intonation is the sound changes produced by the rise and fall of the voice when speaking.
• Intonation is defined

  as a unity of speech melody, timbre, utterance stress, temporal characteristics (duration, pausation, tempo) and

  rhythm.
• Intonation is about how we say things, rather than what we say.
• Falling intonation describes how the voice falls on the final stressed syllable of a phrase or a group of words. A falling intonation is very common in wh-questions.
• Rising intonation describes how the voice rises at the end of a sentence. Rising intonation is common in yes-no questions:
• Fall-rise intonation describes how the voice falls and then rises. We use fall-rise intonation at the end of statements when we want to say that we are not sure, or when we may have more to add:
• Without intonation, it's impossible to understand the expressions and thoughts that go with words.
• Cambridge dictionary defines sentence as a group of words, usually containing a verb that expresses a thought in the form of a statement, question, instruction, or exclamation and starts with a capital letter when written.