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Decide whether the following statements are TRUE or FALSE
1. “I would like a cup of coffee.” is a sentence.
2. “This is the car that John bought last month” is an equative sentence.
3. “Vietnamese people like to eat Pho” is a generic sentence.
4. Reference is a relationship between certain uttered expressions and certain things outside the context
of the utterance.
5. STANDING in “Mary is standing near the table.” is a predicator.
6. BEHIND in “The Royal Scottish Museum is behind Old College.” is a predicate.
7. “John’s car is not new.” is not a declarative statement.
8. The sense of an expression is its relationship to semantically equivalent or semantically related
expressions in the same language.
9. Analyticity is a sense relation between predicates.
10. “I detest semantics” entails “I am not fond of semantics.”
11. Synonymy is to paraphrase as hyponymy is to entailment.
12. ANGER is a hyponym of VIRTUE.
13. HOUSE and APARTMENT in “We’ve just bought a new house/apartment.” have the same sense.
14. “Some students have a job.” paraphrases “Not all students have a job.”
15. “The scissors which Harry saw was not the scissors.” is a contradiction.
16. “Tanzania is different from Kenya.” entails “Kenya is different from Tanzania.”
17. DISLIKE is an intransitive predicate.
18. OVER in “Frank walked over the log.” and “The movie is now over.” is the polysemous sense.
19. “We saw a child with the binoculars.” is an ambiguous sentence.
20. TOP – BOTTOM is the gradable antonym pair.
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II. Choose the correct option (A, B, or C)
21. “The male of the species guards the eggs.” is the ……………… sentence.
a. synthetic b. ambiguous c. generic
22. “Christ is the English I was telling you about.” is …………….. sentence.
a. generic b. equative c. ambiguous
23. MAKE in “Kathy made this cake.” is a ……………predicate.
a. one-place b. two-place c. three-place
24. Which of the following is the synthetic sentence?
a. Bachelors are lonely.
b. Bachelors are never married.
c. Bachelors are male.
25. The…………………of an utterance is a part of the universe of discourse.
a. context b. universe c. prototype
26. “Some cups are dusty.” is a/an ……………….
a. contradiction b. analytic c. synthetic
27. Which of the following sentence would you say might be true or false?
a. Elephants are not vegetables.
b. Bachelors are unmarried.
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c. Kate’s husband is not German.
28. Which of the following sentence would you say are true?
a. No cats likes to bathe.
b. The boy is his own father’s son.
c. Mary is Cathy’s sister.
29. ………………is the relationship between two predicates that have the same sense.
a. hyponymy b. synonym c. homonymy
30. Which of the following pair is the binary antonym?
a. big/ small b. give/receive c. in/out
31. Which of the following pair is not the gradable antonym?
a. tall/ short b. better/worse c. easy/difficult
32. Is the following sentence paraphrase?
a. Humphrey envies Maurice.
Humphrey is envious of Maurice.
b. John is the parent of Sally.
Sally is the mother of John.
c. His car is new.
His car is not new.
33. The predicator in “Henry left Rome yesterday” is …………
a. Henry b. leave C. Rome
34. Which words in the sentence “That is the person we really need.” are deictic?
a. is, really b. That, we c. This, need
35. A hyponym of tree is …………
a. rose b. carrot c. oak
36. A hyponym of tool is …………
a. lotus b. screwdriver c. phone
37. A superordinate term for tin, copper, silver, zinc is ………….
a. furniture b. appliance c. metal
38. A superordinate term for husband, wife, man, woman is ………….
a. widow b. body c. human
39. BIGGER and SMALLER in “I need a bigger/smaller coat.” are ………
a. converses b. binary antonyms c. gradable antonyms
40. “The Korean history teacher knows a lot.” is a/ an ………………..sentence.
a. equative b. ambiguous c. contradictory
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