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Speech acts are utterances that serve a communicative function, such as apologies, greetings, requests, compliments, invitations, refusals, and complaints. Examples of speech acts include greetings like "Hi, how are you?", compliments such as "I like your dress", and requests like "Can you pass the bread?". There are three types of speech acts: locutionary acts which are the literal meaning of an utterance, illocutionary acts which are the intended meaning or function, and perlocutionary acts which are the

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Charlyn Abuyan

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