1. Semantics is the study of ______.

a. Grammar
b. Word formation
c. Meaning
d. Speech sound
1. _____ can be used as basic elements involved in differentiating a word in language
from other words.
a. Semantic features
b. Truth conditions
c. Proposition
d. All of them
2. The boy kicked the ball. The underlined word in this sentence performs the role of
_____
a. Location
b. Source
c. Agent
d. Theme
3. A notational device for expressing the presence or absence of semantic properties is
known as
a. Syntactic analysis
b. Semantic feature
c. Semantic role
d. Truth condition
4. Ahmad kicked the ball. The underlined word performs the _____ semantic role.
a. Source
b. Goal
c. Theme
d. Agent
5. If an agent uses another entity in order to perform an action, that entity fills the role
of ____
a. Source
b. Goal
c. Instrument
d. Location
6. The boy cut the rope with an old razor. The underlined word performs the role of
_____
a. Agent
b. Theme
c. Location
d. Instrument
7. “He drew the picture with a crayon”, which entity performs the role of instrument?
a. He
b. Drew
 c. The picture
d. A crayon
8. The semantic role _____ is the place where the action happens
a. Location
b. Source
c. Goal
d. Theme
9. _____ is the place from which an action originates
a. Location
b. Source
c. Goal
d. Agent
10. ______ is the place where the action is directed
a. Source
b. Goal
c. Theme
d. Agent
11. The statement “we walk in the park” expresses ______ proposition.
a. Single
b. Two
c. Three
d. Four
12. ____ is the functional relation of the argument(s) with the predicate in a proposition.
a. Semantic feature
b. Semantic role
c. Syntactic analysis
d. All of them
13. _____ is the number of arguments that is allowed to accompany a predicate in a
proposition.
a. Complement
b. Valency
c. Referring expression
d. None of them
14. “It is raining”, this sentence has ____ number of valency.
a. Zero
b. One
c. Two
d. Three
15. “The dog is sleeping”, the following sentence has ____
a. Valency zero
b. Valency one
c. Valency two
d. Valency three
16. “The cat killed the rat”, this sentence has ____ number of valency
a. Zero
b. One
c. Two
d. Three
17. A ____ in the role of affected tells what undergoes the action indicated by the verb,
what is changed or affected by the action.
a. Referent
b. Referring expression
c. Proposition
d. Adjunct
18. ____ is a description of the semantic potential of predicates in terms of the number
and types of arguments which may co – occur with them.
a. Government binding theory
b. Valency theory
c. X – bar theory
d. All of them
19. ‘The cat killed the rat', in this sentence the first argument denotes an ___ and the
second argument names the entity ____
a. Actor, affecting
b. Affected, affecting
c. Agent, affected
d. Effect, theme
20. ‘Picasso created a ‘masterpiece’; the underlined argument is a result or ____ of the
action.
a. Actor
b. Agent
c. Effect
d. Theme
21. “Jennie crossed the street”, the underlined argument performs the role of:
a. Agent
b. Actor
c. Place
d. Theme
22. “Simon climbed a tree", the action which is performed by an actor involves
movement with respect to a ____
a. Theme
b. Agent
c. Place
d. Associate
23. “Chris is making an omelet", the underlined argument performs the role of:
a. Actor
b. Agent
 c. Affected
d. Theme
24. “You are disturbing everybody", in this sentence the first argument has the role of
____ and the second argument names the entity that is ____
a. Actor, affected
b. Affecting, agent
c. Affecting, affected
d. Affected, associate
25. “Maureen bathed", this sentence has ----- number of valency.
a. Zero
b. One
c. Two
d. Three
e. Three

ATIQA SHAHZADI

01. How many types of meaning?

a) Five
b) Six
c) Seven
d) Eight
02. _____ is the meaning which arises in the case of multiple conceptual meaning.

a) Conceptual Meaning
b) Collocative Meaning
c) Reflected Meaning
d) Thematic Meaning
03. The conceptual meaning is the base for all other types of _____

a) Words
b) Meanings
c) Phrases
d) Sentences

04. In which year Geoffrey Leech breaks down meaning into seven types in his book ‘Semantics’
a) 1977
b) 1974
c) 1987
d) 1933
05. In conceptual meaning for the analysis of any sentence we need to establish:
 a) Phonological Representation
b) Syntactic Representation
c) Semantic Representation
d) All of them
06. The concept is minimal unit of meaning which could be called:

a) Phoneme
b) Sememe
c) Morpheme
d) Polymorphemic

07. Social meaning can include the _____ force of an utterance.

a) Locutionary
b) Illocutionary
c) Perlocutionary
d) All of them

. The meaning conveyed by the piece of language about the social context of its use is called:

a) Affective Meaning
b) Collocative Meaning
c) Social Meaning
d) Thematic Meaning
. _________ meaning refers to what is conveyed about the feelings and attitude of the speaker
through use of language

a) Affective
b) Connotative
c) Social
d) Conceptual
Another name of conceptual meaning is

a) Social Meaning
b) Reflected Meaning
c) Denotative Meaning
d) Affective Meaning
18. The word ‘Pretty’ collocate with

a) Woman
b) Garden
 c) Village
d) All of them
19. ____ breaks down meaning into seven types in his ‘Semantic- A study of meaning'.
a) Ferdinand de Saussure
b) Geoffrey Leech
c) Leonard Bloom field
d) Steven Pinker
. Geoffery leech wrote 'Semantic- A study of meaning' in:

● 1984
● 1974
● 1976
● 1970

2. ----------- meaning is widely assumed to be the central factor in linguistic communication:

● Conceptual
● Connotative
● Affective
● Social

3."Woman= + human,- male, + adult is an example of:

● Affective meaning
● Connotative meaning
● Social meaning
● Conceptual meaning

4. Minimal unit of meaning is called:

● Sememe
● Phoneme
● Lexeme
● Syntax

5. ------- vary age to age and society to society:

● Reflected meaning
● Thematic meaning
● Connotative meaning
● Collocative meaning
6. Connotative meaning is:

● Peripheral
● Open-ended
● Indeterminate
● All of above

7. The meaning conveyed by the piece of language about the social context of its use is called:

● Social meaning
● Collocative meaning
● Thematic meaning
● Denotative meaning

8. -------- meaning refers to what is conveyed about the feeling and attitude of the speaker:

● Reflected meaning
● Thematic meaning
● Affective meaning
● Social meaning

9. Geoffrey leech in his 'Semantic-A study of meaning breaks down meaning into ------ types:

● 5
● 8
● 7
● 10

10. --------- meaning is also found in taboo words:

● Reflected meaning
● Connotative meaning
● Affective meaning
● Collocative meaning

11. The word 'gay' was frequently used in the times of:

● John Milton
● William Blake
● Jane Austen
● William Wordsworth
12. -------- meaning refers to what is communicated by the speaker in term of ordering, focus and
emphasis:

● Denotative meaning
● Thematic meaning
● Affective meaning
● Connotative meaning

1. According to Geoffrey Leech, the meaning is divided into ________ types.

➢ Five
➢ Six
➢ Seven
➢ Eight
2. In linguistic communication, which type of meaning is widely assumed to be the central
factor?
➢ Connotative Meaning
➢ Social Meaning
➢ Affective Meaning
➢ Conceptual meaning
3. Which type of meaning is the communicative value an expression?
➢ Connotative meaning
➢ Social Meaning
➢ Affective Meaning
➢ Conceptual meaning
4. The type of meaning that varies from age to age and society to society is called _______
meaning.
➢ Social
➢ Affective
➢ Connotative
➢ Reflected
5. _________meaning deals with the core meaning of an expression.
➢ Conceptual
➢ Social
➢ Affective
➢ Thematic
6. What is the name of the type of meaning which is the base for all the other types of meaning?
➢ Affective
➢ Thematic
➢ Connotative
➢ Conceptual
7. Personal feelings or attitude towards the listener is linked with_________
 ➢ Affective Meaning
➢ Thematic Meaning
➢ Connotative Meaning
➢ Conceptual Meaning
8. Which type of meaning arises when a word has more than one conceptual meaning?
➢ Thematic Meaning
➢ Connotative Meaning
➢ Conceptual Meaning
➢ Reflected Meaning
9. When a word acquires a meaning in the company of certain words then it is
called___________
➢ Collocative Meaning
➢ Thematic Meaning
➢ Connotative Meaning
➢ Conceptual Meaning
10. The word pretty is the example of which type of meaning?
➢ Thematic Meaning
➢ Collocative Meaning
➢ Connotative Meaning
➢ Conceptual Meaning

11. The type of meaning that is concerned with the message of speaker/writer in which he
organizes the message in terms of ordering focus and emphasis, is called__________
➢ Connotative Meaning
➢ Conceptual Meaning
➢ Thematic Meaning
➢ Conceptual Meaning
12. Following sentence is the example of which type of meaning?
Mrs. Thomson donated the first prize.
➢ Reflective Meaning
➢ Affective Meaning
➢ Thematic Meaning
➢ Reflected Meaning

LECTURE NO 06 TOPIC: REFERENCE

TABASUM MANZOOR

1. A referring expression is a _____ phrase.

a. Verb
b. Noun
 c. Adjective
d. Adverb
2. ______ distinguished the terms: referring expression, referent and way of referring.
a. Chomsky
b. Searle
c. Kreidler
d. Saussure
3. A ____ is the concrete object or concept that is designated by a word or expression.
a. Referring expression
b. Deixis
c. Referent
d. Referential ambiguity
4. A _____ is an object or referent that is considered typical of the whole set.
a. Polysemy
b. Prototype
c. Homonymy
d. Synonymy
1. How many types of Deixis.
a) One
b) Two
c) Three
d) Five
2. Deixis is a term.
a) Physcho
b) Biology
c) Literary
d) Technical
3. how many categories of person deixis
a) one
b) two
c) three
d) four
4. Expressions which describe high status.
a) Social deixis
b) Addressee
c) Honorifies.
d) Proximal
5. Which deixis includes relative social status.
a) Person deixis
b) Social deixis
c) Time deixis
d) Discourse deixis
6. Which deixis indicates the location of people and things?
 a) Discourse deixis
b) Person deixis
c) Time deixis
d) Spatial deixis
7. Time deixis is commonly grammaticalized into.
a) One
b) Two
c) Three
d) Four
8. How many tenses represent the time relations?
a) One
b) Two
c) Three’
d) Four
9. Which deixis interacts with cultural measurements of the time.
a) Discourse deixis
b) Time deixis
c) Temporal deixis
d) Spatial deixis

10. Which deixis is also called text deixis?

a) Discourse deixis
b) Temporal deixis
c) Time deixis
d) Spatial deixis
11. Deixis means
a) Pointing via language
b) Pointing with writing
c) Pointing with learning
d) Pointing with translation.
12. Which category of person deixis.
a) Speaker
b) Location
c) Thing
d) Time
13. The deictic time adverbs are .
a) Today
b) Next
c) Then
d) All of these
14. Diurnal spans are
a) Today
b) Tomorrow
 c) Yesterday
d) All of these
15. Which point used to location in time.
a) Now
b) Those
c) Are
d) None of these
16. The discourse deixis examples.
a) But
b) All
c) Actually
d) All of these
17. Time deixis is commonly grammactlized in
a) Deictic adverb of time
b) Tenses
c) Place
d) Both a and b
18. Person deixis is
a) Speaker
b) Listener
c) Writer
d) None of these

TOPIC: TYPES OF DEIXES

1. How many types of Deixis

a. six
b. three
c. five
d. four
2. Deixis is a technical term which means ……….
a. Pointing via language
b. Relationship between language
c. Relative and social status
d. Psychological distance
3. Which categories of person deixis……..
a. yesterday
b. speaker
c. Tenses
d. location
4. Social deixis form used to indicate ……
a. speaker
 b. language and context
c. Psychological distance
d. relative social status
5. The relative location of people and things is being indicated in …..
a. person deixis
b. place deixis
c. spatial deixis
d. Temporal deixis
6. Discourse deixis is also called….
a. text deixis
b. time deixis
c. person deixis
d. social deixis
7. The best example of Discourse deixis is :
a. You
b. anyway
c. today
d. next week
8. Coding time refers to…..
a. the moment of utterance
b. the moment of reception
c. language and context
d. relationship between language
9. Receiving time refers to…..
a. the moment of utterance
b. relationship between language
c. the moment of reception
d. language and context
10. Time deixis interacts with …..
a. cultural measurements of time
b. measurement of location
c. time relation
d. location in time
11. ‘Now' and ‘Then' forms used to point to ….
a. Location in time
b. time period
c. measurement of location
d. social distance
12. Tenses represent the
a. time relation
 b. language relation
c. language and context
d. language interaction
13. Honorifics expressions describe……
a. Higher status
b. lower status
c. high relationship
d. lower relationship
14. ______ tenses represent the time relations.
a. Present
b. Past
c. Future
d. All of them
15. Any expression that is used to point to ‘me, you, him, and her’ is an example of ….
a. person deixis
b. time deixis
c. social deixis

place deixis

1. According to Harford and Heasley “a word or a sentence is _____ when it has more than
one sense".
a. Anomalous
b. Ambiguous
c. Contradictory
d. Redundant
2. Lexical semantics is concerned with the meaning of:
a. Words
b. Phrases
c. Clauses
d. Sentences
3. The type of linguistic expressions which cause lexical ambiguity are:
a. Synonyms and antonyms
b. Homonyms and polysemy
c. Hyponymy and antonym
d. Synonyms and homonyms
4. Lexical items which have same spellings but have different meanings are called:
a. Homophones
b. Synonyms
c. Antonyms
d. Homographs
5. ‘He turned towards the bank. Here the word bank creates:
a. Lexical ambiguity
b. Structural ambiguity
c. Referential ambiguity
d. Contextual ambiguity
6. Which is an example of homophones?
a. Cat, dog
b. Read, read
c. Bear, bare
d. Pretty, beautiful
7. _____ is the association of one word with two or more distinct but related meanings.
a. Polysemy
b. Synonym
c. Antonym
d. Homonym
8. Distinct underlying interpretations that have to be represented differently in deep
structure is called:
a. Lexical ambiguity
b. Referential ambiguity
c. Structural ambiguity
d. Contextual ambiguity
9. A referential ambiguity can result because of the presence of
a. Verbs
b. Pronouns
c. Adjectives
d. Adverbs
10. The boy told his father about the theft. He was very upset. Here the word He creates:
a. Lexical ambiguity
b. Referential ambiguity
c. Structural ambiguity
d. Both a and b
11. Which is an example of homographs?
a. Right and write
b. Day and night
c. Almost and nearly
d. Type and type
12. According to Kreidler, sentences that make opposite statements about the same subject
they are:
a. Anomaly
b. Contradictory
c. Ambiguity
d. Redundancy
13. ‘Kings are female’ is an example of:
 a. Contradiction
b. Anomaly
c. Redundancy
d. Ambiguity
14. When the combination of two semantic properties are incompatible, it results:
a. Ambiguity
b. Contradiction
c. Anomaly
d. Both a and b
15. ‘The picture laughed’. Here the semantic property of the word ‘picture’ and ‘laughed'
refers to:
a. Anomaly
b. Contradiction
c. Redundancy
d. Ambiguity
16. Words that have the same pronunciation but different in spellings and meanings called:
a. Homographs
b. Synonyms
c. Hyponymy
d. Homophones
17. When the truth of one sentence implies the falseness of the other, this relation is referred
to as:
a. Presupposition
b. Negative entailment
c. Anomaly
d. Ambiguity
18. Who have presupposition?
a. Sentence
b. Speaker
c. Listener
d. Words
19. ______ is a condition which must be fulfilled in order for an expression to make a
sentence.
a. Entailment
b. presupposition
c. Semantics
d. Pragmatics
20. Presupposition is introduced by...........
a. Lexical items
b. phonological items
c. morphological items
d. both B & C
21. Mary’s cat is cute. In this sentence which information speaker assumes to be
presupposed?
a. Mary has a cute cat.
b. Mary don’t has cat.
c. Mary has a cat.
d. Mary’s cat is not cute.
22. Presupposition is a part of linguistics meaning by this concept presupposition is .........
phenomenon.
a. Pragmatic
b. semantic
c. lexical
d. Phonological
23. How many types of presupposition are......?
a. 4
b. 5
c. 6
d. 7
24. Entities named by the speaker as assumed to be present is.............. Presupposition.
a. Active
b. Lexical
c. Structural
d. Existential
25. Which presupposition is identified by the presence of some verbs such as known,
realized, be glad etc.
a. Existential
b. Factive
c. Non Factive
d. Structural
26. You are late again is an example of........ presupposition.
a. Lexical
b. Factive
c. Non Factive
d. Existential
27. It is an assumption referred to something that is not true is known as...........
a. Factive presupposition
b. Non Factive presupposition
c. Existential presupposition
d. Lexical presupposition
28. Meanings that what is presupposed are not only untrue but is the opposite of what is
true or contrary to facts is known as...........
a. Non Factive presupposition
b. Factive presupposition
c. Counter factual presupposition
 d. Lexical presupposition
29. I wish I had studied medicine is an example of............
a. Counter factual presupposition
b. Existential presupposition
c. Factive presupposition
d. Non Factive presupposition
30. How many kinds of presupposition triggers Karttunen has collected?
a. 31
b. 41
c. 51
d. 61
31. The projection problem was originally suggested by Langdon and Savin in......
a. 1971
b. 1972
c. 1973
d. 1974

32. ____ is the assumption associated with the use of certain words and phrases:
a. Factive presupposition
b. Structural presupposition
c. Lexical presupposition
d. Non – Factive presupposition
33. ‘I dreamed that I was rich' is an example of:
a. Factive presupposition
b. Non – Factive presupposition
c. Lexical presupposition
d. Existential presupposition
34. if clauses are used in ____ type of presupposition:
a. Factive
b. Non Factive
c. Lexical
d. Counter factual
35. ‘We REGRET telling him’ is an example of..............
a. Lexical presupposition
b. Counter factual presupposition
c. Factive presupposition
d. Non Factive presupposition
a.
b. TOPIC: ENTAILMENT
1) ______ is context independent.
a. Presupposition
b. Entailment
 c. Contradiction
d. Ambiguity
2) In syntactic source which versions of the same sentence entail one another?
a. Active and passive
b. Direct and indirect
c. Simple and complex
d. Compound and complex
3) ____ between lexical items is a regular source for entailment between sentences:
a. Homonymy
b. Synonymy
c. Antonym
d. Hyponymy
4) ____ is not a pragmatic concept.
a. Presupposition
b. Contradiction
c. Entailment
d. Ambiguity
5) When two sentences have exactly the same set of entailment, they are called:
a. Synonymous
b. Antonymous
c. Homonymous
d. Polysemous
6) Another source of entailment is:
a. Anomaly
b. Ambiguity
c. Redundancy
d. All of them
7) When an expressions do not have any argument it is known as:
a. Prediction
b. No place prediction
c. One place prediction
d. Two way prediction
8) When the entailment works only in one direction it is called:
a. Background entertainment
b. Foreground entailment
c. One -way entailment
d. Two – way entailment
9) Who introduces background and foreground entailment?
a. Leech
b. Kreidler
c. Yule
d. Lyons
10) ____ is affected by negation.
 a. Presupposition
b. Entailment
c. Ambiguity
d. Contradiction
11) Who proposed a mechanism to obtain the set of entailments of a sentence?
a. Yule and Savin
b. Savin and Smith
c. Smith and Wilson
d. Leech and Kreidler
12) Grammatically specified entailments of a sentence play an important role in _____
of the sentence.
a. Semantic analysis
b. Pragmatic interpretation
c. Syntactic analysis
d. Both a and b
13) Entailment is a ____ relation.
a. Phonetic
b. Semantic
c. Pragmatic
d. Syntactic
14) ____ sentences are used to emphasize on intended meaning.
a. Cleft
b. Assertive
c. Negative
d. Interrogative
15) ____ have entailments.
a. Speakers
b. Readers
c. Listeners
d. Sentences
c.
d. TOPIC: ENTAILMENT
16) ______ is context independent.
e. Presupposition
f. Entailment
g. Contradiction
h. Ambiguity
17) In syntactic source which versions of the same sentence entail one another?
e. Active and passive
f. Direct and indirect
g. Simple and complex
h. Compound and complex
18) ____ between lexical items is a regular source for entailment between sentences:
 e. Homonymy
f. Synonymy
g. Antonym
h. Hyponymy
19) ____ is not a pragmatic concept.
a. Presupposition
b. Contradiction
c. Entailment
d. Ambiguity
20) When two sentences have exactly the same set of entailment, they are called:
e. Synonymous
f. Antonymous
g. Homonymous
h. Polysemous
21) Another source of entailment is:
e. Anomaly
f. Ambiguity
g. Redundancy
h. All of them
22) When an expressions do not have any argument it is known as:
e. Prediction
f. No place prediction
g. One place prediction
h. Two way prediction
23) When the entailment works only in one direction it is called:
e. Background entertainment
f. Foreground entailment
g. One -way entailment
h. Two – way entailment
24) Who introduces background and foreground entailment?
e. Leech
f. Kreidler
g. Yule
h. Lyons
25) ____ is affected by negation.
e. Presupposition
f. Entailment
g. Ambiguity
h. Contradiction
26) Who proposed a mechanism to obtain the set of entailments of a sentence?
e. Yule and Savin
f. Savin and Smith
g. Smith and Wilson
 h. Leech and Kreidler
27) Grammatically specified entailments of a sentence play an important role in _____
of the sentence.
e. Semantic analysis
f. Pragmatic interpretation
g. Syntactic analysis
h. Both a and b
28) Entailment is a ____ relation.
e. Phonetic
f. Semantic
g. Pragmatic
h. Syntactic
29) ____ sentences are used to emphasize on intended meaning.
e. Cleft
f. Assertive
g. Negative
h. Interrogative
30) ____ have entailments.
e. Speakers
f. Readers
g. Listeners
h. Sentences
i. Who has presented the principle of maxim
a. Austin
b. Grice
c. Searle
d. Kreidler
j. How many maxims are presented by Grice?
a. 2
b. 4
c. 6
d. 8
k. First time speech act theory was proposed by ____ in 1962.
a. Grice
b. Austin
c. Chomsky
d. Geoffrey Leech
l. Speech act theory was proposed by Austin in _____
a. 1961
b. 1962
c. 1963
d. 1964
m. The act that the speaker performs in saying something is called ____ act.
 a. Illocutionary
b. Locutionary
c. Perlocutionary
d. None of them
n. ____ acts are the basic act of utterance or producing a meaningful
linguistic expressions
a. Illocutionary
b. Locutionary
c. Perlocutionary
d. All of them
o. ____ acts are the effect produced on the listener when they listen a
locutionary act or this is the hearer’s response.
a. Illocutionary
b. Locutionary
c. Perlocutionary
d. All of them
p. Make your utterance relevant to the context including prior utterance.
a. Relation
b. Quality
c. Quantity
d. Manner
q. Make your contribution no longer or shorter than necessary.
a. Relation
b. Quantity
c. Quality
d. Manner
r. Make your contribution to the discourse true.
a. Relation
b. Quality
c. Quantity
d. Manner
s. Avoid ambiguity and obscurity be brief and orderly
a. Relevance
b. Quality
c. Quantity
d. Manner
t. Sentences are traditionally designated into:
a. Declarative
b. Interrogative
c. Imperative
d. All of them

Speech acts that bring about the state of affairs they name are called..
 (a) Assertive (b) Performative (c) Verdictive (d) none

2: How many types of performatives…

(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 5

3: “I accuse you of putting on airs”, it is an example of ….. utterance.

(a) Expressive (b) Verdictive (c) Directive (d) none

4: “I apologize for having disturbed you” it is an example of ….. utterance.

(a) Expressive (b) Verdictive (c) Directive (d) none

5: …… utterance can be recognized as commands, requests and suggestions.

(a) Expressive (b) Verdictive (c) Directive (d) none

6: Speech acts that commit a speaker to a course of action are called,

(a) Expressive (b) Verdictive (c) Commissive (d) none

7: “I promise to be on time” it is called ….. utterance.

(a) Expressive (b) Commissive (c) Directive (d) none

8: The purpose of …… utterances is to establish rapport between members of the society.

(a) Commissive (b) Phatic (c) Expressive (d) none

9: “How are you?” is an example of ….. utterance.

(a) Commissive (b) Phatic (c) Directive (d) none

10: “Smoking is not permitted in the lavatories” is an example of ….. utterance.

(a) Directive (b) commissive (c) phatic (d) none

----- is the relationship between two predicates that have the same sense.

a. antonym
b. lexemes
c. Synonymy
d. binary antonym Ans (c)
2: The words On and Off are:

a. lexemes
b. synonymy
c. Hyponymy
d. binary antonym Ans (d)

3: Non-binary adjective are also_______.

a. antonyms
b. hyponymy
c. gradable adjectives
d. binary antonyms Ans (c)

4: Antonyms are ------ in meaning:

a. non space
b. opposite
c. Singular
d. a,c both Ans (b)

5: ------ is a kind of antonym between two terms.

a. converseness
b. non-binary antonyms
c. synonymy
d. binary antonyms Ans (a)
6: The lexemes seaman and sailor are _______.

a. Hyponyms
b. Antonyms
c. Synonyms
d. Binary antonyms Ans ( c)

7: Synonymy is _____ based phenomena.

a. Content
b. Expression
c. Whole – word
d. Pragmatic Ans (a)

8: Lexical synonymy is between ____ lexemes.

a. Double
 b. Group
c. Individual
d. None of these Ans (c)

9: Phrasal synonymy can mostly be derived from the synonymy of the _____.

a. Phrases
b. Clauses
c. Sentences
d. Paragraphs Ans (a)

10 : True / False are :

a. converse antonyms
b. gradable antonyms
c. non - binary antonyms
d. binary antonyms Ans (d)

11: Binary antonyms are predicates which come in:

a. pairs
b. Individual
c. a or b
d. none of these Ans(a)

12: Which word best express the meaning of Freedom?

a. Nearly.
b. liberty
c. Wide
d. none of these Ans ( b)

13: Synonymy is an instance of -----:

a. Mutual entailment.
b. mutual antonyms
c. mutual gradable
d. a or b both Ans (a)

14: The notion of Synonymy and sense are ;

a. Interdependent.
b. Interdependent
c. mutual entailment
 d. none of these Ans ( a)

15: Non - binary adjectives are also:

a. non-gradable adjectives
b. conversances
c. gradable adjectives
d. binary adjectives Ans (c )

16: Conversances is a kind of antonym between -------, term:

a. three
b. two
c. six
d. none of these Ans ( b)

17: Some pairs of antonyms are ------

a. Semantically related
b. Morphologically related
c. synthetically related
d. Pragmatically related Ans ( b)

18: Synonyms can be ---:

a. Nouns
b. Adjectives
c. Adverbs
d. All of them Ans (d)

19: Hot and cold is example of

a. gradable antonyms
b. non - gradable antonyms
c. binary antonym
d. non - binary antonym Ans (a)

The opposite of polysemy is:

a) Homonymy
b) Meronymy
 c) Hyponymy
d) Monosemy

06. The term _____ is defined as when one form (written or spoken) has two or more unrelated
meanings.

a) Polysemy
b) Hyponymy
c) Homonymy
d) Prototype

07. How many types of ‘Homonymy’

a) Two
b) Three
c) Four
d) Five

08. The _____ term is used to describe a part- while relationship:

a) Meronymy
b) Monosemy
c) Homonymy
d) Collocative

09. The ____ of a predicate can be thought of as the most typical member of the extension of a
predicate.

a) Collocative
b) Prototype
c) Meronymy
d) Polysemy

10. Cover and page are the ____ of a book.

a) Meronymy
b) Monosemy
c) Hyponymy
d) Both a & b

11. The _____ is a pair or group of words that are often used together.
 a) Prototype
b) Homonymy
c) Collocation
d) Polysemy

12. How many types of collocation:

a) Five
b) Six
c) Seven
d) Eight

13. ‘They are happily married’ the underlined phrase is an example of _____ type of collocation.

a) Verb & Adverb

b) Noun + Noun
c) Adverb & Adjectives
d) Adjective & Noun

14. ‘She pulled steadily on the rope and helped him to safety’ the underlined phrase is an example
of ____ type of collocation.

a) Verb & Adjective

b) Verb & Adverb
c) Noun & Verbs
d) Noun & noun

15. Homographs are the type of ----------

a) Homonymy
b) Polysemy
c) Hyponymy
d) Monosemy

16. “The road runs from east to west” the underlined word is an example of:

a) Polysemy
b) Collocative
c) Prototype
d) Hyponymy

17. Homophones is the type of --------

a) Hyponymy
b) Meronymy
c) Homonymy
d) Both a & b