Implications of Faulty Sentences in Communication
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Faulty sentences are some of the barriers to effective communication. Communication is effective when its content is not marred or distorted by errors, solecism, ambiguity and other inadequacies arising from language misuse and poor/lack of knowledge of language and communicative principles that make communication effective. This study explores the implications of faulty sentences in communication. Data are drawn from observation and library and internet secondary sources. Qualitative method and text-content analysis are employed. The analysis shows that the implications of faulty sentences include marring meaning and comprehension, and generating solecism, ambiguity and structural imbalance. The study concludes that faulty sentences amount to violation of syntactic rules and communicative principles, pose challenges to effective communication, and show poor knowledge and use of syntax and grammar of a language. It charges individuals to learn and master how faultless sentences are formed, and internalise syntactic rules and principles of effective communication.
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