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1. "The girl pretended to be asleep" presupposes that the girl
2. Which of the following is a CLEFT construction?
3. Which of the following sentences is VAGUE?
4. The Speech Acts Theory was propounded by
5. According to the Speech Acts Theory, Verbs that commit the speaker (eg promises, refusals) are referred to as
6. "The country had no capital at the time".
The sentence above contains lexical ambiguity.
7. Sentence meaning and Utterance meaning are linguistically different.
8. 'Fred says Tom is friendly".
The above sentence is ambiguous as a result of wrong punctuation.
9. Body language is an aspect of linguistic context.
10. CONTEXT provides all the adequate resources for the realization of meaning.
11. Which of the following statements is true about MEANING?
12. Utterance meaning depends largely on its...
13. In terms of lexical meaning, the DENOTATION of a word refers to
14. Which of the following constructions is LEAST acceptable?
15. Sentence meaning can be initiated by any of the following linguistic devices except
16. Context has two aspects: linguistic and
17. The adjective HANDSOME collocates with the following nouns, except
18. The class has been assigned an English History teacher.
The statement above contains ambiguity as a result of
19. Semantics as a discipline is the interface of ....
