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Politeness and impoliteness

Task C - Negative politeness

Negative politeness involves not impeding someone’s wish to get on with achieving his or her own goals. You can do this by not getting in their way or actually helping them to achieve their goal in some way (e.g. stopping to let someone pass, being quiet when someone else is working, helping someone to cook a meal, volunteering to baby-sit for free while a child’s parents go to a film they want to see).

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