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1. In which case the underlined indefinite expression is not referring? a. There is a policeman looking at your car. b. Some people in the lift avoided each other’s eyes. c. She sweeps in like a hurricane, blowing everyone away. d. Some youngsters were setting cars on fire in the suburbs. 2. Choose a pair where (i) presupposes (ii) a. (i) John and Susan are married. (ii) John and Susan are married to each other. b. (i) John’s brother went to London. (ii) John has a brother. c. (i) Everyone passed the exam. (ii) No one failed the exam. d. (i) Some friend helped me to move. (ii) Some friend helped me to pack. 3. Which of the rows contains only so-called ‘/ogical words"? a. if, and, or b. a, the, some c, two, five, hundreds d. true, false 4, Which of the following sentences has a patient subject? a. The storm shattered the window. b. The doctor is afraid. c. The birds fly. d, The water has boiled. 5. The cooperative principle by Grice a. aims to explain how people achieve successful communication. b. states that the maxim of relevance is the main conversational implicature. c, identifies communicative intensions of the speaker. d. explains entailment relations between sentences. 6. Which of the statements correctly describes the relation between situation types and aspect? Situation types and aspect do not interact. In some theories, situation types are called lexical aspect. In some theories, situation types are called viewpoint aspect. None of the above. ae sP 7. Consider the following truth table: aod mand als The question mark in the third column stands for: disjunction (p or q) conjunction (p and q) implication (if p then q) bi-conditional (p if and only if q) peop 8. Which of the following sentences expres s epistemic modality? a, They must have forgotten about the meeting. b. You ought to answer all the questions in an interview. c. Drink a lot of water to keep your body hydrated. d. If were you I would never accept their offer. 9. The difference between the two sentences, Mary ran along the river vs. Mary ran a marathon, can be correctly described in terms of: telicity durativity stativity tense Bese 10. Which of the following statements is true? a, Metaphors are examples of literal language. b. Metaphors allow us to express one domain of experience in terms of another. c. Metaphors are not conventional. d. Metaphors are traditionally defined in terms of contiguity.

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