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The World and the LAnguage

4. Complete the following text with the words or phrases from the box (using them in the appropriate form).

to serve, to examine, to correspond, to classify, need, few, vast, language.

It is fairly obvious that language is used _____ a variety of different _____, but until we examine its grammar there is no clear reason for _____ its uses in any particular way. However, when we _____ the meaning potential of language itself, we find that the _____ numbers of options embodied in it combine into a very _____ relatively independent ‘networks’; and these networks of options _____ to certain basic functions of _____.