REVISION TEST (2) 1819

I. Decide if the following statements are TRUE (T) or FALSE (F)

1. The sense of an expression is its place in a system of semantic relationships with other
expressions in the language.
2. Every expression that has meaning has sense, and also has reference.
3. Uttering is an act performed by particular speakers on particular occasions.
4. A referring expression is any expression used in an utterance to refer to something or someone,
i.e, used with a particular referent in mind.
5. Mary, a car, and between could be used as referring expressions.
6. Auckland is a large city is an equative sentence.
7. In The gorilla at the zoo is a male, the predicate male functions as a predicator.
8. give is a three-place predicate.
9. The prototype of a predicate is a list of the typical characteristics or features of things to which
the predicate may be applied.
10. Cultural differences result from different prototypes.
11. Synonymy is to hyponymy as entailment is to paraphrase.
12. The Sun, the earth, the Evening Star have constant reference.
13. A double-decker bus could be a prototype for the predicate bus for a British-English speaker.
14. flower is the superordinate term of tulip, rose, carrot, sunflower, cucumber, cherry.
15. Antonymy is not restricted to just one part of speech.

II. Choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to each question.

1. A(n)………………… is that part of the meaning of the utterance of a declarative sentence
which describes some state of affairs.
A. utterance B. sentence C. proposition D. argument
2. Which is NOT true about sentence?
A. Sentences can be true or false. B. Sentences can be grammatical or not.
C. Sentences are in a particular language.D. Sentences are in a particular regional accent.
3. Which of the following could NOT be used as a referring expression?
A. my teacher B. travel C. Donald Trump D. a dog
4. Which of the following is NOT an equative sentence?
A. The Beatles is my favorite band B. The male of the species guards the eggs.
C. The person in the corner is my English teacher.
D. Angela Merkel is the current Prime Minister of Germany.
5. Which of the following is a two-place predicate?
A. pretty B. kick C. female D. between
6. How many referring expressions are there in the sentence A wasp makes its nest in a hole in a
tree?
A. none B. one C. three D. four
7. In which of the following utterances is the proposition asserted by the speaker?
A. “Please keep your room tidy and clean.”
B. “Have you ever met with a celebrity?”
 C. “How about going to the movies this weekend?”
D. “My literature teacher has finished writing a novel.”
8. In which of the following does the definite article the signal definiteness?
A. She taught herself to play the piano.
B. The house next to mine is very beautiful.
C. My father likes listening to the radio.
D. The average American family watches TV after dinner.
9. Which of the following connect(s) language to the world?
A. sense B. extension C. reference D. B&C
10. Which of the following sentences is an analytic sentence?
A. Mary’s kitten is so cute.
B. Alice’s five-year-old daughter is a girl.
C. Tom’s wife is an English history teacher.
D. University students are afraid of exams.
11. Which of the following is a contradictory?
A. Our uncle is going to buy a new house.
B. George Washington was the first president.
C. My unmarried brother is married to a spinster.
D. Newly-married couples go on honeymoon the day after the wedding.
12. Which of the following pairs of words are converses?
A. parents/offspring B. awake/asleep
C. South/North D. love/hate
13. Which of the following pairs of words are binary antonyms?
A. table/chair B. honest/dishornest
C. interviewer/interviewee D. high/low
14. fork (a place where a road devides into two parts vs. instrument for eating) is a case of…..
A. polysemy B. hyponymy C. synonymy D. antonymy
15. The two sentences (a) Tom can swim and (b) Can Tom swim? are said………………
A. to have the same proposition C. to be contradictories
B. to be paraphrases of each other D. to entail each other

III. Indicate the predicators and arguments in the following sentences:

1. The soup was boiling. 2. Mary watered the flowers.
3. Alice is doing her homework. 4. My brother is a chef.
5. Helen put the book on the table.

IV. Identify the participant roles of each of the underlined noun phrases in the sentences
below:
1. Andrea sent the package to her mother.
2. Jane sliced the sausage with a knife.
3. The window was broken by Charlie.
4. Mary smelled the burning cake from the oven.
5. We saw our former teacher in Paris.

V. Disambiguate the following ambiguous sentences by giving each one two paraphrases
which are not paraphrases of each other.
1. We admire the American literature teacher.
2. Are you looking for a match?
3. My father is looking for a match.
4. We admire the English history teacher.