PRESUPPOSITION AND ENTAILMENT

Watch the video clip and identify types of Presupposition and Presupposition in the following
statements.
No Statements Presupposition Type
.
1. How could you do this without telling me? She did it without telling Rachel Structural
2. If I told you, it wouldn’t be a surprise, now She didn’t tell Rachel Counter-factual
would it?
3. Did something happen to his falafel cat? Existential
4. Why is she wearing her hat so low? She has a hat
She is wearing…
5. Or that thing in Joey’s refrigerator. There’s a person named Joey
Joey has a fridge
6. I told you we shouldn’t have left Emma with They left Structural
her. There’s a person named Emma Existential
Modal perfect Ross told Rachel Structural
Factive (We left
Emma with her)
Counter-factual
(no)
Lexical
(presupposition-
unstated,
words)
7. I am never letting you babysit again. Rachel let A before Lexical
8. Joey, get Amy’s bags. Existential
9. I can’t believe I ever even tried to help you. I tried to help you Factive
10. Just us sisters back together again like where Back, again Lexical
we were kids. When we were kids (temporal clauses) Structural

Existential
Factive
Lexical
Structural
Non-factive
Counter-factual: hypothetical conditionals