INSTURCTION
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1. FRED RESIGNED FROM THE BOARD LAST THURSDAY'. Which of the following statements is a presupposition from the above sentence.
2. Which of the following constructions is LEAST acceptable.
3. Context has two aspects, Linguistic and ...
4. 'The boy pretended to sleep' presupposes that the boy
5. Linguistic context includes the following elements, except...
6. The nature of an interaction constitutes part of linguistic context.
7. "Here is the plane/plain'.
There is homophonic ambiguity in the above sentence.
8. Stylistic meaning can be codified.
9. Polysemous and Homonymous words are etymologically related.
10. IMMIGRATE and EMIGRATE are synonyms occasioned by morphological variation.
11. The DENOTATION of a word or lexeme
12. Sentence meaning can be initiated by any of the following, except
13. Utterance meaning depends largely on
14. The book How To Do Things with Words (1962) originated from the lectures of ....... on speech Acts.
15. According to the Speech Acts Theory, verbs that expound views, conduct arguments and clarify usage are known as
16. The adjective pRETTY collates with the following nouns except
17. We instructed the boys to scrub the toilet and they did.
The underlined part of the above sentence (THEY DID) provides
context to
18. Which of the following structure is a CLEFT construction?
19. Which of the following sentences is VAGUE?
20. "My 10- year old son is now a big boy' The above sentence is ambiguous because of the
