Exercise Presuppositions

The following material is an adapted form of material created by student participants of the project e-Learning Resources for Semantics (e-LRS).
Involved participants: Katharina, Caterina, Daniela, Eva

The following sentences make certain presuppositions. Indicate which of the given candidate inferences are presuppositions?

	There are dishes that need to be washed up.
	I do not have time to do the dishes.
	The dishes needed to be washed up before.
	Someone didn't wash up the dishes the last time they needed to be washed up.

	I hate tea with milk.
	I am having tea.
	Someone has already put milk in his/her tea.
	I do not like my tea with the amount of milk that is currently in the tea.

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