Student’s name: ………………………………………..

SEMANTICS

Code: …………………….. PROGRESS TEST

Class: …………………….. Duration: 50 minutes

A- THEORY
I/ Distinguish ‘grammatical meaning’ and ‘lexical meaning’, take examples to illustrate
your points. (1.5 points)
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II/ Decide the following statements True (T) or False (F) (2.5 points)
1. Substitutional relations are those existing between members of different
grammatical categories. __________

2. There are 5 variables in the function of sentence meaning: structural meaning,

representational meaning, interpersonal meaning, textual meaning and
categorical meaning. __________
3. Absolute homonyms are the words which have unrelated meanings,
identical forms and their identical forms must be grammatical equivalent. __________
4. The sense of an expression is stable while its reference is varied. __________
 5. Metaphor is an explicit comparison. __________
6. In a semantic field, words of the same part of speech are grouped
ideographically. ___________
7. A sentence which is grammatically correct is not necessarily meaningful. ___________
8. A necessarily true sentence is one which may be either
true or false, depending on the way the world is. ___________
9. There might be lexical gaps in the places of both superordinate and
co-hyponyms. ___________
10. Material processes involved at least 2 entities. ___________
B- PRACTICE
I/ Identify the types of transference of meaning (metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole, litotes,
irony, euphemisms) in these sentences (3 points)
1. Life is a rose with both good smells and sharp thorns ___________
2. He attacked the enemy with a deadly hit. ___________
3. I’d like 3 dishes: one chicken, one beef and one chips. ___________
4. Slow down, please! You’re driving at the speed of a lightning. ___________
5. The prince still loved her although she was not very beautiful, just
because of her kindness. ___________
6. Wait me a minute! I need to go to the restroom. ___________
7. Look at that guy! He always runs after skirts. ___________
8. I always believe in the bond between us. ___________
9. Oh, poor the little boy. He’s carrying a-ton-heavy backpack. ___________
10. Don’t eat anymore! You almost have a slim body of an elephant, baby. ___________

II/ Choose A, B, C or D for the correct answer in each sentence (1 point)

1. The sense relation between ‘bicycle’ and ‘wheels’ is………….. relation.

A. substitutional B. meronymy C. combinational D. hyponymy
2. The bold word in the sentence ‘I need a hand to complete this job’ is an example of………..
A. polysemy B. antonym C. synonymy D. litotes
3. According to John Lyon’s classification, ‘employer’ and ‘employee’ are a pair of ………..
antonyms.
A. gradable B. complementary C. conversive D. directional
 4. The process in the sentence ‘My son is doing his homework.’ is ……………… process.
A. material B. mental C. relational D. intensive
5. The argument in bold in the sentence is “Jane saw her husband going with another woman
on the street yesterday.’ is ………………
A. actor B. receiver C. goal D. senser

III/ Decide whether the following pairs of words/expressions are synonyms, antonyms,
homonyms, or polysemantic words. (2 pts)

1. She’s always afraid of peer-pressure because she doesn’t want 1. ………………………..

to be worse than her friends.
2. Drinking a hot coffee in such a freezing weather is really chill. 2. ………………………..
3. Going sight-seeing around the camping site is not very bad. 3. ………………………..
4. Laziness will kill your future. Only hard-working can help 4. ………………………..

you gain success.

5. The key to the boat was dropped on the quay. 5. ………………………..
6. Even in the bright light of the day, the light color plastic table 6. ………………………..

looked identical to the heavy wooden one.

7. He’s not only a rich man, he is also rich of honour. 7. ………………………..
8. She usually leaves her hometown in the autumn when the 8. ………………………..

yellow leaves start falling.

9. Most of people in life are afraid of the death. 9. ………………………..
10. Kerry gave a triumphant shout to celebrate our team’s 10. ………………………..

victorious record.
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 KEY OF PROGESS TEST – K 47

A – THEORY

I/ Distinguish lexical and grammatical meaning

Lexical meaning Grammatical meaning

Definition - Lexical meaning is the individual - Grammatical meaning is the

(1pt) meaning each word has in the
system off language.
- This meaning brings together
different forms of one and the
- The grammatical categories
same word.
Ex: go – going – went – gone
meaning of a word that
depends on its role in a
sentence and varies with
inflectional form.
of English are tense, mood,
aspects, voice, number,
person and comparison.

Features - Different forms of the word will share the same lexical meaning but
they have different grammatical meaning.
(0.5 pt) Ex: small – smaller – the smallest (the same lexical meaning but different
grammatical meaning)
- Different words may share the same grammatical meaning but they
have different lexical meaning.
Ex: like, hate, love, enjoy,…

II/ 0.25pt/correct answer

1. F 2. F 3. T 4. T 5. F
6. F 7. T 8. F 9. T 10. F
B- PRACTICE

I/ 0.3pt/correct answer

1. metaphor 2. metaphor 3. metonymy 4. hyperbole 5. litotes

6. euphemis 7. metonymy 8. metaphor 9. hyperbole 10. irony
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II/ 0.2pt/ correct answer

1B 2A 3C 4A 5D

III/ 0.2pt/ correct answer

1. synonyms 2. antonyms 3. homonyms 4. antonyms 5. homonyms

6. polysemy 7. polysemy 8. homonyms 9. antonyms 10. synonyms