This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Linguistics > Semantics > Semantics – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Semantics Quiz 3 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Choose one of the sentences that is syntactically incorrect but semantically understandable! A) Recently she prefers to sleep at midnight. B) I gotta go home now. C) They did try to fix the car. D) Have you finished your lunch?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I gotta go home now. 2. Characterizing the meaning of words in terms of its relationship to other words; synonymy, antonymy, and hyponymy. A) Lexical relationships. B) Semantic analysis. C) Collocation. D) Gradable antonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lexical relationships. 3. Pick an antonym for 'abundant' A) Plenty. B) Abandoned. C) Scarce. D) Enough. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scarce. 4. A person or object which is considered (by many people) to be typicalof its classor group A) Homonym. B) Hyponym. C) Prototype. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prototype. 5. Identify the relationship of the following pair of antonym.good-bad A) Gradable. B) Complementaries. C) Converses. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Complementaries. 6. How many types of sentences do we have? A) 2. B) 3. C) 5. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 4. 7. What is "Affective Meaning" ? A) It relates the words to whom it utters them. B) It refers to the sense and reference on words that play an important part in the speech. C) It refers to the notions and intonations when words are utteted. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It refers to the notions and intonations when words are utteted. 8. What type of tag is this: A) Comments. B) Questions. C) Paragraph. D) Image. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comments. 9. Dogs are four-legged. A) Contradiction. B) Tautology. C) Other Sentences. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tautology. 10. The words that are mentioned below are inflectional, EXCEPT ..... A) Photoshoot. B) Watched. C) Listened. D) Walked. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Photoshoot. 11. Which of the following terms is unmarked? A) Dog. B) Bulldog. C) Poodle. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dog. 12. Mean is the average.you are so mean to me. A) Homonym. B) Homophone. C) Homograph. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Homonym. 13. Words like right-write, to-two, for-four, included in ..... A) Polysemy. B) Homophones. C) Homograph. D) Homonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Homophones. 14. An idea or course of action which will lead to something unacceptable, wrong, or disastrous. A) Semantics. B) Simile. C) Slippery Slope. D) Solecism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slippery Slope. 15. Cats are felines. A) Contradiction. B) Tautology. C) Other Sentences. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tautology. 16. What maxim discusses about trying to be clear, brief, orderly, and avoid obscurity and ambiguity? A) Quality. B) Quantity. C) Manner. D) Relation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Manner. 17. Covers basic, essential components of meaning that are conveyed by the literal use of a word A) Associative meaning. B) Connotation. C) Conceptual meaning. D) Collocation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conceptual meaning. 18. At which of Aitchison's stages are over-and under-extensions likely to occur? A) Labelling. B) Packaging. C) Network building. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Packaging. 19. "Eye" is a ..... of "face" A) Synonym. B) Hyponym. C) Meronym. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meronym. 20. A statement in a non-fiction or a fiction work that a writer intends to support and prove. A) Theme. B) Thesis. C) Tone. D) Transition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thesis. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesLinguistics QuizzesSemantics Quiz 1Semantics Quiz 2Semantics Quiz 4Semantics Quiz 5Semantics Quiz 6Semantics Quiz 7Semantics Quiz 8Semantics Quiz 9Semantics Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books