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+- Where is the man with the megaphone?.
+- Where is the man with the megaphone?
|| Easy one, right?
|| Easy one, right?
|| The last sentence contains all the information of the first one; you only have to translate it into colloquial English. I told you, that it wasn’t so complicated!  
|| The last sentence contains all the information of the first one; you only have to translate it into colloquial English. I told you, that it wasn’t so complicated!  

Revision as of 18:03, 5 August 2013

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

Presupposition or entailment?

You will now have to find out whether the sentence is a presupposition or an entailment?

presupposition entailment
Where is the man with the megaphone?
Queen of England attended a cooking workshop.
My dog Richard was killed in a car accident.


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