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TYPES OF PRESUPPOSITION

Authored by Tram Thieu

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TYPES OF PRESUPPOSITION
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A: The fair boy shook his head.

B: There is a boy who is fair.

What type of presupposition is B/

existential

factive

lexical

structural

non-factive

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A: I stopped eating meat

B: I used to eat meat.

What type of presupposition is B?

existential

factive

lexical

structural

non-factive

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A: What movie did you end up watching last Friday?

B: The adressee watched a movie last Friday.

What type of presupposition is B?

factive

lexical

structural

counterfactual

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A: It was in the opera that I have lost my glasses

B: I have lost my glasses somewhere.

What type of presupposition is B?

existential

factive

lexical

structural

5.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A: If I hadn't have eaten so much over the holiday, I would still fit my favorite jeans.

B: The speaker has eaten so much over the holidays.

What types of presupposition are B?

structural

counterfactual

factive

non-factive

6.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A: Alex knows that Chris didn't call.

B: Chris didn't call.

What types of presupposition are B?

existental

factive

non-factive

lexical

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A: He pretended to be careless and dropped the vase.

B: He wasn't careless.

What type of presupposition is B?

non-factive

structural

lexical

counterfactual

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