Is Each of The Following Statements TRUE or FALSE ? (2014-2015)

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Is each of the following statements TRUE or FALSE ?

(2014-2015)

1. American in " Ms. Hoa married an American " is not a referring expression .
2. it in " Every man who owns a donkey beats it " is a not referring expression .
3. Whether a sentence contains any referring expressions or not depends on the ti and place at
which the sentence occurs .
4. showed is the predicator in " Fred showed Jane his BMW "
5. Hit is a one - place predicate .
6. " De Kanastrokins is an ass " is not an equative sentence .
7. The phrase “in the corner” contains one predicates .
8. " Buchelors are unmarried " is an analytic sentence .
9. " Bachelors are lonely " is a synthetic sentence .
10. " I saw a person " entails " I saw a boy " .
11. " Henry chewed up all my tulips " entails " Henry chewed up all my flowers " .
12. pass and fail are binary antonyms .
13. Cat and dog are gradable antonyms .
14. " John murdered Bill " and " Bill was murdered by John " are contadictories .
15. Cup is a case of polysemy .
16. True and false are gradable antonyms .
17. Quy Nhon is a large city is an equative sentence .
18. A universe of discourse can be partly fictitious.
19. male in " The gorilla at the zoo is male ' is a predicator .
20. murder is a two-piace predicate.
21. A single proposition can be expressed by using different sentences.
22. A sentence is tied to a particular time and place.
23. He rolled up the carpet and He rolled the carpet up are the same sentence.
24. The same expression can be a referring expression or not, depending on the context.
25. He' in If anyone who marries Nancy, he's in for a bad time is a referring expression.
26. The teacher of samantics is ... is an opaque context:
27. Her mother is my aunt'. is an equative sentence.
28. ‘large' and ' city' in Cairo is a large city are the prediçates.
29. The predicators may be adjective, verb, noun and preposition.
30. ‘saw' in He saw a mouse under the table is a two-place predicate.
31. My younger sister is much different from me is an analytic sentence
32. A PARAPHRASE of a sentence is a sențence which expresses the same proposition as that
sentence.
33. top and bottom are gradable antonyms.
34. John is under the table is a contradiction of The table is under John, so under is a symmetric
predicate.
35. Synonymy is to hyponymy as entailment is to paraphrase.
36. as tall as is a reflexive predicate in Tom is as tall as himself.
37. Tom is taller than Pater, Peter is taller than Mike, so Tom is taller than Mike. Therefore, taller
than is an instransitive predicate.
38. 'identical to' expresses equivalent relation.
39. 'my watch in My waich is being repaired is the AGENT of the sentence.
40. The position of ‘thick snow' in The mountain is covered with thick snow is that of complement.
41. Propositions are mentioned only in declarative sentences.
42. Two sentences in different languages can correspond to the same proposition, if the two
sentences are perfect translations of each other.
43. Not every expression has reference.
44. ‘He’ in If anyone who marries Nancy, he's in for a bad time is a referring expression
45. John's brother is nine years old is a synthetic sentence.
46. My aunt got married to a widower is a paraphrase of A widower got married to my aunt.
47. My aunt got married to a widower is an equative sentence.
48. ‘married to' expresses equivalent relation.
49. The teacher who teaches writing is........ is an opalue context.
50. The meaning of red is included in the meaning of scarlet.
51. Dead and live are gradable antonym s.
52. above.and below are converses.
53. 'She can't bear children' is unambiguous.
54. A word or a sentence is AMBIGUOUS when it has more than two senses.
55. A word whose different senses are a part from each other and not related to each other in any
way is a case of polysemy.
56. Synonymy is to entailment as hyponymy is to paraplirase.
57. A PARAPHRASE of a sentence is a sentence which expresses the same proposition another
sentence
58. Similar to' can be used to express equivalent relations.
59. ‘a letter bomb' in The terrorisis sent the Prime Minister a letter bomb is the INSTRUMENT of the
sentence.
60. There's no participant role in’ This letter was writen in a hurry'.
61. Superordinate may be nouns, adjectives and verbs.
62. A polysemous word has two or more distinct þut unrelated meanings.
63. . The same expression can be used to refer to different things. Thus one expressi
64. in language can have variable reference
65. All contradictions are paraphrases of cach other
66. Fale entertain propositions in the mind regardless of whether they are true or fal e.g. by thinking
them, or believing them.
67. True and false are gradable antonyms.
68. Is listening to his song is the predicator of the sentence Peter is listening to his song
69. All of us will become teachers is an analytic sentence
70. That bowl in Thot bowl is broken by Alice is the Agent
71. He bought all flowers entails He bought al tulips.
72. The perloccurionarv aci performed is something that is within the full control of the speaker.
73. is eviclent what Kenionarý has been performed as soon as the utterunce is made.
74. All entailments are inferences and all inferences are entailments.
75. The sense of im expression is what it denotes regarding other expressions in one utterange.
76. Sense is the central meaning of a linguistic form regarded from the point of view of the way
in .....................
77. Sense is any formal item that conveys meaning especially a conventional piece of a system
78. context of an utterance is a part of the universe of discourse.
79. The referent of an espression is often a thing ora person in the world, whereas the sense of an
expression is not a thing all.
80. That part of the meaning of the utterance of a declarative sentence which denotes some state
of affairs (involving persons or things) is called a referring.expression.
81. Every expression that has meaning has sense, but not every expression has reference.
82. An equative sense is one which could be made into a complete sentence by the addition of a
referring expression
83. .......... rlation belween two proposition., A and B. such that if A is true, B must also be true but it
B is true. it does not necesssrily follow that-A is true
84. Lofi and right gradable antonym
85. There are two referring expression in i have a new book in the sheft.
86. False propositions do not correspond to facts.
87. A proposition can be said to belong to a particular language.
88. A sentence may be grammatical or no..
89. The order of thE TWo referring expressions of many equative sentences can be reversed without
loss of acceptability.
90. A sentence čan be expressed in a particular language.
91. Two sentences in different langunges. can correspord to the same proposition, if the two
sentence are perfect translations of each other.
92. Not all utterances are toreris or sentence.
93. The utterance in 1892 is a spoken of sentence
94. referring expression is any expression used in an utterance to refer to something or someone.
95. Every expression that has rmeaning hes reference.
96. "large' in Cairo is s large city is the predicator
97. The degree of a predicate is the number of the agent in the sentence
98. ‘a man' in John attacked a man is a referring expression
99. Predicates da not refer, but they can be used to identify the referent of that expression
100. ALice is her mosher's sister is a synthetic sentence.

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