30 CÂU HỎI
Which of the following items are more reflective of speaker meaning in the way this concept was introduced in this unit?
A. Bears are mammals
B. There is no difference between "He rolls the carpet up" and "He rolls up the carpet"
C. 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?
A. My boss is a snake
B. Tigers are animals
C. 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?
A. Unmarried means the opposite of married
B. Metals react with acid to form salts and hydrogen gas
C. 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 ___.
A. Double quotation marks/ in bold
B. Double quotation marks/ italicized
C. Single quotation mark/ in bold
D. Single quotation mark/ italicized
Which of the following utterances are tokens of whole sentences?
A. Let’s play in the garden
B. Coffee or tea?
C. 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.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
Which two pairs of sentences express the same propositional content?
A. Mary hates John / John hates Mary
B. She drove me home / She gave me a lift home
C. Alan murdered Tom / Tom wasn’t murdered by Alan
D. There are five candies in the box / The box contains five candies
Which two pairs of sentences express different propositional content?
A. Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam / Hanoi is a city of Vietnam
B. I’m full / I’m stuffed
C. Will you go away? / You will go away
D. I like ice creams / Ice creams are tasty
Choose the correct statement:
A. Utterances can be true or false
B. Sentences can be loud or quiet
C. Propositions can be grammatical or not
D. Propositions can’t be true or false
In which of the following, a proposition is asserted?
A. Is he?
B. What is the meaning of love?
C. Love is life
D. Watch out!
Which of the following contains a referent?
A. She loves animals
B. A cat doesn’t bark
C. Her cat is a Persian
Which of the following doesn’t contain a referent?
A. The Sun rises in the East
B. Teachers are always on time
C. My teacher is always on time
The expressions "the Morning Star" and "the Evening Star" have the same referent.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
The expression "the queen of the United Kingdom" always has constant reference.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
Which of the following has variable reference?
A. Jane’s brother
B. The Earth
C. This pen
D. Hanoi
Which of the following has constant reference?
A. The author of Harry Potter
B. The best football team
C. 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.
A. Reference/ sense
B. Referent/ sense
C. Sense/ referent
D. Proposition/ sense
Which of the following has two senses?
A. Call me a cab
B. Drive me home
C. Pass me the salt
Which of the following has one sense?
A. I saw her duck
B. I saw the duck
C. The duck was seen
Every expression that has meaning has sense, but not every expression has reference.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
Choose 2 options that can be used as referring expressions
A. Michael
B. The boy
C. Above
D. If
Which of the following contains a referring expression?
A. My sister bought a Ferrari
B. My sister loves Ferrari cars
C. There is no Ferrari in my sister’s house
Which of the following is an equative sentence?
A. Loch Ness is a lake
B. Mary is my teacher
C. 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: ___
A. Mary, the can, the dumpster / took, from / take
B. The can, the dumpster / took / took
C. 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: ___
A. The girl / gave / gave
B. The girl, the sandwich / gave, is / give, is
C. The girl who gave me the sandwich / is kind / kind
Which one is a two-place predicate?
A. Die
B. Want
C. Place
Which one is a generic sentence?
A. Hanoi is a city
B. Cats like fish
C. A dog bit someone
Identify all the deictic words in the sentence "Yesterday I took the book from his house over there"
A. Yesterday, I, the book, his house, over there
B. I, the book, his house, over there
C. Yesterday, I, the, his, there
Which word below has a deictic ingredient?
A. Took
B. Disc
C. Look
Which can be a prototype of the predicate worm?
A. Animal, pointy ears, has a tail, catches rats
B. Animal, long, soft body, no limbs, brown
C. Animal, has feather, has a beak