Lexicology and Semantics (UAL)

‘The minister pronounced them man and wife’ represents:

• Utterance.

• Sentence.

• Complex-compound sentence.

• Lexical item.

Decide which words are function words in the following sentence:

The children will be swimming in the ocean at five o'clock.

• The, will be, in, the, at

• Children, swimming, ocean, five, o'clock

• The children will be

• In the ocean at five o'clock

7. Decide which words are content words in the following sentence:

The children will be swimming in the ocean at five o'clock.

• The, will be,in, the, at

• Children, swimming, ocean, five, o'clock

• The children will be

• In the ocean at five o'clock

Decide which words are content words in the following sentence:

You'll be happy to know that she's decided to take the position.

• Be, happy, know, decided, take, position

• You'll, to, that, she's, to, the.

• You'll be happy to know

• To take the position

Function words give us the most important information while content words are used to stitch those words together. This statement is true or false?

• True

• False

Click the homophone below that is correct in its sentence:

Would you like a ________ of cake?

• Piece

• Peace

To which group do the words written in italics belong?:

The driver turned left and left the main road.

• Homonyms

• Homophones

• Homographs

• Hyponyms

Words that cannot be used in certain contexts.

• Taboos

• Tabus

• Tautology

• Terminology

Indirect expressions that are used in exchange of words or phrases that are considered inappropriate.

• Euphemisms

• Dysphemisms

• Optimisms

• Antonymies

The connection of sensory modalities in the understanding of information involves:

• Synaesthesia

• Metaphor

• Metonymy

• Blending