30 câu hỏi
Which of the following items are more reflective of speaker meaning in the way this concept was introduced in this unit?
Bears are mammals
There is no difference between "He rolls the carpet up" and "He rolls up the carpet"
She is as cool as a cucumber
Which of the following items are more reflective of sentence meaning in the way this concept was introduced in this unit?
My boss is a snake
Tigers are animals
She is the black sheep of the family
Which sentence is an example of semantic theory in the way this concept was introduced in this unit?
Unmarried means the opposite of married
Metals react with acid to form salts and hydrogen gas
Without oxygen, fires can’t sustain themselves
Fill in the blank:
An utterance is represented by anything written between ___, and a sentence (or part of a sentence) is represented by anything ___.
Double quotation marks/ in bold
Double quotation marks/ italicized
Single quotation mark/ in bold
Single quotation mark/ italicized
Which of the following utterances are tokens of whole sentences?
Let’s play in the garden
Coffee or tea?
In the box, near the table
"She brings him a cup of coffee" and "She brings a cup of coffee to him" are the same sentence.
TRUE
FALSE
Which two pairs of sentences express the same propositional content?
Mary hates John / John hates Mary
She drove me home / She gave me a lift home
Alan murdered Tom / Tom wasn’t murdered by Alan
There are five candies in the box / The box contains five candies
Which two pairs of sentences express different propositional content?
Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam / Hanoi is a city of Vietnam
I’m full / I’m stuffed
Will you go away? / You will go away
I like ice creams / Ice creams are tasty
Choose the correct statement:
Utterances can be true or false
Sentences can be loud or quiet
Propositions can be grammatical or not
Propositions can’t be true or false
In which of the following, a proposition is asserted?
Is he?
What is the meaning of love?
Love is life
Watch out!
Which of the following contains a referent?
She loves animals
A cat doesn’t bark
Her cat is a Persian
Which of the following doesn’t contain a referent?
The Sun rises in the East
Teachers are always on time
My teacher is always on time
The expressions "the Morning Star" and "the Evening Star" have the same referent.
TRUE
FALSE
The expression "the queen of the United Kingdom" always has constant reference.
TRUE
FALSE
Which of the following has variable reference?
Jane’s brother
The Earth
This pen
Hanoi
Which of the following has constant reference?
The author of Harry Potter
The best football team
The leader of the US army
Fill in the blank:
The ___ of an expression is often a thing or a person in the world; whereas the ___ of an expression is not a thing at all.
Reference/ sense
Referent/ sense
Sense/ referent
Proposition/ sense
Which of the following has two senses?
Call me a cab
Drive me home
Pass me the salt
Which of the following has one sense?
I saw her duck
I saw the duck
The duck was seen
Every expression that has meaning has sense, but not every expression has reference.
TRUE
FALSE
Choose 2 options that can be used as referring expressions
Michael
The boy
Above
If
Which of the following contains a referring expression?
My sister bought a Ferrari
My sister loves Ferrari cars
There is no Ferrari in my sister’s house
Which of the following is an equative sentence?
Loch Ness is a lake
Mary is my teacher
Mary is not my teacher
Fill in the blank:
In the sentence "Mary took the can from the dumpster," the referring expressions: ___, the remainder: ___, the predicator: ___
Mary, the can, the dumpster / took, from / take
The can, the dumpster / took / took
Mary, the can, the dumpster / took / take
Fill in the blank:
In the sentence "The girl who gave me the sandwich is kind," the referring expression: ___, the remainder: ___, the predicator: ___
The girl / gave / gave
The girl, the sandwich / gave, is / give, is
The girl who gave me the sandwich / is kind / kind
Which one is a two-place predicate?
Die
Want
Place
Which one is a generic sentence?
Hanoi is a city
Cats like fish
A dog bit someone
Identify all the deictic words in the sentence "Yesterday I took the book from his house over there"
Yesterday, I, the book, his house, over there
I, the book, his house, over there
Yesterday, I, the, his, there
Which word below has a deictic ingredient?
Took
Disc
Look
Which can be a prototype of the predicate worm?
Animal, pointy ears, has a tail, catches rats
Animal, long, soft body, no limbs, brown
Animal, has feather, has a beak