This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Linguistics > Semantics > Semantics – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Semantics Quiz 11 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The words here are homophones, EXCEPT ..... A) Meat-meet. B) Hi-high. C) Poor-pour. D) Axe-ask. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Axe-ask. 2. An assumption made by the speaker or the writer. A) Inference. B) Speech act. C) Presuposition. D) Reference. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Presuposition. 3. What maxim discusses about trying to be relevant and says things that are pertinent to the discussion? A) Quality. B) Quantity. C) Manner. D) Relation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Relation. 4. Meanings that differ based on the word order is the definition of ..... A) Semantics and syntax. B) Semantics and morphology. C) Semantics and pragmatics. D) Semantics and phonology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Semantics and syntax. 5. As the maxims stand, what happen if the length of one says is long-winded? A) There may be broken. B) There may be explained. C) There may be an overlap. D) There may be a reconcilation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) There may be an overlap. 6. What is the word 'wave' related to? A) Homographs. B) Homophones. C) Homonyms. D) Hyponyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Homonyms. 7. 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The platypus alive for an hour after the hunter killed it. 8. The study of which words occur together, and their frequency of co-occurrence. A) Connotation. B) Collocation. C) Implication. D) Location. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Collocation. 9. A generic sentence is a sentence in which some statement is made about ....., as opposed to any particular individual A) A whole unrestricted class of individuals. B) Individuals in general. C) A group of objects. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A whole unrestricted class of individuals. 10. Choose that are antonyms word A) Ask-Enquire. B) Coarse-Rough. C) Awake-Asleep. D) Rest-Relax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Awake-Asleep. 11. Hyponymy and hyperonymy are also called ..... A) Complementaries. B) Subordinates and superordinates. C) Partonymy and troponymy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subordinates and superordinates. 12. This is an example of paraphrase for:I had lunch before going to the park. A) First I went to the park and then I ate something. B) After I had lunch, I went to the park. C) You shouldn't go to the park after lunch. D) Are you hungry?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) After I had lunch, I went to the park. 13. What does HTML stand for? A) Hypertext Making Language. B) Hyper Transfer Markup Language. C) Hypertext Markup Language. D) Hyper Transfer Making Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hypertext Markup Language. 14. Which one is NOT a strategy for building syntax skill that mentioned in this lesson? A) Sentence combining. B) Sentence building. C) Sentence scramble. D) SentenceElaboration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sentence building. 15. Read the situation below. Select an example of figurative speech. A) Birds fly. B) Time flies. C) Fish swim. D) He swims. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Time flies. 16. A referring expression is any expression used in an utterance to ..... to something or someone, that is used with a particular referent in mind A) Refer. B) Mean. C) Describe. D) Connect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Refer. 17. The relation of A and B:A) You should see an eye specialist.B) You should consult an oculist. A) Synonymy. B) Presupposition. C) Entailment. D) Contradiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synonymy. 18. Which linguist is associated to the sentence 'Colorless green ideas sleep furiously'? A) Ferdinand de Saussure. B) Noam Chomsky. C) Charles Kreidler. D) John Saeed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Noam Chomsky. 19. Identify the relationship of the following pair of antonym.lessor-lessee A) Gradable. B) Complementaries. C) Converses. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Converses. 20. The hyponyms of See, except A) Stare. B) Glimpse. C) Nod. D) Glance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nod. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesLinguistics QuizzesSemantics Quiz 1Semantics Quiz 2Semantics Quiz 3Semantics Quiz 4Semantics Quiz 5Semantics Quiz 6Semantics Quiz 7Semantics Quiz 8Semantics Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books