Semantics

What is polysemy?

• a. Words with same spelling, different meaning and pronunciation

• b. Words with same pronunciation, different meaning

• c. Words with the same spelling and pronunciation, have many related meaning

• d. Words with same spelling and pronunciation, different meaning

The important to study semantics, except

• a. Broaden our horizon about words meaning

• b. Enable us to choose the right words

• c. To create misunderstanding and misconception

• d. Enable us to communicate and comprehend clearly

These are relational pairs antonym, except

• a. Give x take

• b. Buy x sell

• c. Teach x learn

• d. Life x death

Which sentence is semantically wrong?

• a. The camel sniffed the chocolate and then ate it

• b. The platypus alive for an hour after the hunter killed it

• c. John arrived yesterday

• d. My sister is a bachelor

Lexical ambiguity refers to…

• a. Words that have the same meaning

• b. A word that has more than one meaning

• c. Words that have different meanings

• d. A word that contains the meaning of a more general words

Lexical classes of words are nouns, adjectives, verbs and most adverbs

• a. Nouns, adjectives, conjunction, and most adverbs

• b. Nouns, adjectives, verbs and most prepositions

• c. Nouns, adjectives, verbs and most adverbs

• d. Nouns, numbers, verbs, and most adverbs

Utterance is a string of words combined together by a grammatical rule.

• False

• True

Semantics is a branch of_________which studies_________in_______

• a. Linguistics, meaning, language

• b. Linguistics, meaning, context

Semantics as a scientific discipline was established in the 19^th century.

• False

• True

What are the paraphrasing tips in semantics?

• a. Active, transformation, inversion, dependent clauses

• b. passive, clearly, informative

• c. dependent clause, active, informative

• d. clearly, active, dependent clause