Attitude

Attitude refers to our feelings towards someone or something. Broadly speaking, these feelings may be positive or negative.

However, when describing attitude, we should avoid using the terms positive and negative since they are too general.

In fact, we ought to be specific and use terms such as, hateful attitude, loving attitude and spiteful attitude.

In speech, attitude is revealed through what a person says and how it is said while in writing, whatever a person wants to say can be inferred from the words that he or she uses.

When reading a piece of literary work, there is need to consider aspects such as, punctuation, choice of words and the words in brackets since they normally reveal the feelings of a writer.

Now, watch a video that will help you see how the choice of words and the way the words are used can help you understand the message.

watch a video clip of a conversation between

a Deputy Principal and a student