Question

Fill in the blanks with non-lexical fillers in the following conversation:
Shopkeeper: what do you want?
Customer: ________ do you have some brown sheets for packing articles?
Shopkeeper: sir they are available on the third shop on the right.
Customer: __________you mean the green colour shop?
Shopkeeper: yes sir.

Answer 1

Hint: Non – lexical fillers are extra words which come meaninglessly in case of verbal communication.

Complete answer :
Non –lexical fillers are used by people of all ages. If we speak it is likely that we have used a non- lexical filler at some point. They are not easy to avoid.
Non – lexical fillers are extra words which come meaninglessly in case of verbal communication.
Example- er, umm, uuh etc
Young children often use non-lexical fillers. They have limited vocabulary so at times it limit the ways they can put together their sentences. Even children end up using these fillers purely to buy themselves time, they may not even be aware that they are using them but might end up saying these fillers in nervousness.
These fillers are even used by adults at times. Using these non –lexical fillers do not make one unintelligent. They help to relate to others.
Now let us fill in the blanks using non-lexical fillers.

Shopkeeper: what do you want?
Customer: uh do you have some brown sheets for packing articles?
Shopkeeper: sir they are available on the third shop on the right.
Customer: umm you mean the green colour shop?
Shopkeeper: yes sir.

Note:Non –lexical fillers can easily be identified in a sentence. They are too easy to use and understand.