There is a distinction between what would seem to be the usual meaning of a word or a sentence, and the meaning it has in certain specific circumstances or contexts. This is, in fact, the difference between:
a. Semantics and Systematic
b. Semantics and Pragmatics.
c. Semantics and syntactics.
d. All false
Reference deals with the relationship between the language and:
a. The environment
b. The world.
c. The dictionaries.
d. History
9. In these examples, “bank” has a ………………..in each sentence.
a. Similar sense
b. Different sense
c. Confusing sense
d. A and B
Certain words tend to appear together or “keep company”. This is called in semantics:
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a. Combination
b. dual
c. collocation
d. all false
There are at least five ways in which they can be seen to differ. One of these ways is when some sets of synonyms belong to different dialects of the language. An example of this is:
a. "Fall" and "Autumn"
b. "Man" and "Chap"
c. "Liberty" and "Freedom"
d. Non of the above mentioned.
5. One of the ways some words differ in is when words may be said to differ only in their emotive or evaluative meanings. An example of this is:
a. "Liberty" and "Freedom"
b. “hide” and “conceal”
c. "Man" and "Chap"
d. A and B
"far" and "near" is an example of:
a. Gradable antonyms
b. Converses
c. binary antonymy (complementarity).
d. All false