‫بسم هللا الرحمن الرحيم‬
‫علم المعاني‬
‫قسم اللغة االنجليزية‬
‫المستوى الخامس‬
‫المملكة العربية السعودية‬
‫وزارة التعليم العالي‬
‫جامعة األمير للما‬
Midterm Exam (1)
Name:……………………………………………………
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Write the terms of the given definitions:
(SEMANTICS ) The study of the meanings of words and sentences.
(SENSE)
The relations between words in the same language.
(REFERANCE) The relation between the word and its referent in the external world.
(SENTENCE) The ideal combination of words concatenated horizontally in accordance with special syntactic rules .
2-Decide whether the statement is true (T) or false (F):
1- Semantics is a branch of theoretical linguistics.( T )
2- All sentences are informative. ( F )
3- The moon is a changeable referent. ( F )
4- The sentence meaning may contradict the speaker's meaning. ( T )
5- Both proposition and sentence can be true or false. ( T )
6- Truth depends on meaning but correctness depends on grammar. ( T )
7- Semantic theory applies to English language only ( F )
8- Mona is always a RE. ( T )
9- Different RE 's may have the same R ( T )
10- Sense is abstract while referent is actual ( T )
11- The pigeon is a bird is a generic sentence . ( T )
12- The river is wide is an equative sentence. ( F )
3- Find the predicator and decide its degree:
Sentence
Ali is smart
My father told me a secret
The purple pen is in the bag
John wrote an essay
predicator
smart
told
in
wrote
degree
One-degree-predicate
Three-degree-predicate
Two -degree-predicate
One-degree-predicate
Best wishes
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