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How Aphasia Causes Difficulty Speaking. Chairdrobe.

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

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Brocas Aphasia - The Cat Was Chased by the Dog

Sentences like the first one i'll read, can be harder for brocas aphasi to understand. First, the cat was chased by the dog. Second, the car was chased byThe dog. They seem so similar, but they're actually different. The person with brocasaphasia may be misled and say that the cat must be doing the chasing because it's in passive voice. But if you strip the tence down to content words, it might be cat chase dog. This would be difficult for a speaker who is dependent on semantic knowledge due to having suffered grammar loss. Whether something is animate or not is one of the many features that are incoted within every word that

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