Presupposition and Entailment

How many types of presupposition are there?

• 3

• 5

• 6

I want more milk for my tea!

• I hate tea with milk.

• I am having tea.

• Someone has already put milk in his/her tea.

• I do not like my tea with the amount of milk that is currently in the tea.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

‘Non-factive presupposition is an assumption that something is true’

• TRUE

• FALSE

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Alex's wife has called.

• Alex is married.

• Alex is male.

• Alex's wife has called the speaker.

• There exists a married woman.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"If I would not have eaten so much over the holidays ,I would still fit my favorite jeans" . Determine type of presupposition in this sentence

• structural

• counterfactual

• lexical

Is the sentence (2) a presupposition or an entailment of the sentence (1) ?

(1): Where is the man with the megaphone?

(2): There is a man with a megaphone.

• presupposition

• entailment

The sentences in (1) presuppose the sentence (2). Determine the type of presupposition.

(1): It was in the opera that I have lost my glasses.

(2): I have lost my glasses somewhere.

• existential

• factive

• lexical

• structural

• non-factive