Round 1 - Review Day

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Round 1 - Review Day

Round 1 - Review Day

Assessment

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English

University

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Huong Dieu

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10 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What kind of implicature is employed in the bold sentence below?

Speaker A: Do you like Rosie?

Speaker B: Well, she has a nice husband.

Particularized

Scalar

Generalized

Conventional

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Identify the type of presupposition of the sentence in italics:

When did you buy the bike? -> You bought the bike

Structural

Existential

Factive

Lexical

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which utterance below employs positive politeness strategy?

What about looking on the big map to find the zoo?

Excuse me. Where is the zoo, please?

I’m sorry if I bother you, but I am looking for the zoo.

Do you happen to know the way to the zoo?

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What maxim is flouted in the following conversations:

Speaker A: What’s the weather prediction?

Speaker B: It's cold, very cold. And I think you'd better bring your coat and your scà. Make sure that you're not gonna get cold.

Quantity

Relation

Quality

Manner

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Identify the type of speech act of the utterance of the Prime Minister:

Minister of Education: ‘I resign.’

Prime Minister: ‘You’ll be free from tomorrow.’

commissive

declaration

directive

representative

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Name the type of deixis for the word in italics

Her painting is brilliant – that’s why it was sold for million dollars.

personal deixis

spatial deixis

temporal deixis

discourse deixis

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

An anaphoric reference refers to the subject that is introduced …… in the sentence.

later

next

earlier

before

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