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It is about having prejudice about someone that doesn’t change, even after
                 Visual Perceptions     noticing a change in behaviour. It refers to the prenotion of the brain to sense
                                        what we see through our eyes.
                                        The experience from a past event sometimes blocks our mind to take decisions or
                 Past Experience        set prejudices in our mind. Our earlier experience doesn’t allow us to understand
                                        or communicate clearly.

                                        It is a kind of preconceived opinion or prenotion which stops us from
                 Prejudice
                                        understanding or communicating.
                                        Feelings include emotions that sometimes cause a lack of interest or not trusting
                 Feelings
                                        the other person, which also affects our communication.

                                        Sometimes the hindrances in the environment make communication difficult, it is
                 Environment
                                        because of noise or disturbance.
                                        Sometimes communicating or willing to begin a conversation also depends on our
                 Personal
                                        mood, fear or low confidence which makes it difficult to communicate.

                                        Sometimes one sign can depict different meanings in different cultures, such
                 Culture                as showing a thumb may mean ‘good job’ done for some people but may be
                                        insulting for others.


                   WRITING SKILLS

                 When we talk about writing content for a particular topic, ideas start generating in our consciousness. This
                 sudden reaction of our mind results in the formation of sentences, which communicates the thought. There
                 are certain aspects through which we can improve our writing skills, like:

                  hrases
                 It can be a short or a long sentence and give a complete meaning when attached to a principal clause or an
                 independent sentence. Hence, a phrase may also be explained as a dependent sentence, for example:  after
                 the class” is a phrase and “I will meet you” is a principal clause.

                 By joining together these sentences we get “I will meet you after the class”.

                 Active and  assive  oice

                 We speak many sentences in our day-to-day life but we don’t realise the diversity of sentences that we use
                 while speaking. It can be seen through the following examples:
                 1.  I taught you.                                 2.  You are taught by me.

                 We notice that there is a difference between both sentences. In the first sentence, the subject
                 ‘I’ is the doer of the action ‘taught’ while in the second sentence, the subject ‘You’ is the receiver of the action
                  taught . In this way, the first sentence is in  Active  oice  while the second sentence is in   assive  oice

                 1.  I taught you (Active voice).

                 2.   ou are taught by me (Passive voice).
                 In ‘Active Voice’, the subject performs the action stated by the verb. In ‘Passive Voice’, the subject is acted
                 upon by the verb.


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