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Language Focus: Giving Suggestions, Advices, and Prohibition

In giving education to the patients on the preventive and promotive measures, nurses must be able to use
the language functions of expression prohibition and give suggestions and advice. Study the following
language functions to provide better education to your patients.

Expressing Prohibition

• It is forbidden to…
• You are not allowed to …
• You are not permitted to…
• It is prohibited to …
• You must not …
• You are not to…
• You can’t…

Making Suggestions and Advice

• You should try to…..
• I strongly urge you to…..
• I think you should….
• Why don’t you…..?
• You’d better…...
• I suggest that you…...
• I strongly advise you to……...
• I recommend that you……
• It’s better for you to……
• You might want to………
• You have no choice but to……
• It would be a good idea to…..

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