Exercise-ch6

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Exercises for chapter 6: Quantifiers

Quantifier denotation

Complete the paraphrase for the following sentences with quantifiers.

1 Sentence: Pat read many books.

For

x such that

is a

, Pat

x.

2 Sentence: Most students work hard.

For

such

x is a

,

works

.

3 Sentence: Pat knows some good movies.

For

x

,

.


Complete the paraphrases for the following ambiguous sentences with quantifiers.

Sentence: Every linguist knows at least two languages.

For

languages x, for every

y,

knows

.


Logical forms for sentences with quantifiers

LRS combinatorics for quantifiers