... please? ) more intensifiers (eg. Really ) and what she sees as generally weaker vocabulary ( eg. Words like lovely and Oh dear ). Linguists use the term female register to indicate a particular set of grammatical constructions that are used primarily by women. ( Crosby and Nyquist, 1977). Usage of Qualifiers First, women use more qualifiers than men. These words hedge or soften statements that are mostly evaluative in nature. Rather than describing a person, particularly a friend, as 'shy', the words 'sort of', 'kind of', or 'somewhat' may be inserted to soften the statement. A more obvious qualifier is when the sentence already begins with words which make it questionable. " This may be incorrect, but...." is an example. ( Lindsey, 1994,p72) Usage of Tag Questions Second, tag questions are typically used by women which means that after making a statement, there follows a question relating to that statement, " I enjoyed ...

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