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+ There are dishes that need to be washed up. | + There are dishes that need to be washed up. | ||
- I do not have time to do the dishes. | |||
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+ They were dishes that needed to be washed up before. | + They were dishes that needed to be washed up before. | ||
+ Someone didn't wash up the dishes the last time they needed to be washed up. | + Someone didn't wash up the dishes the last time they needed to be washed up. | ||
Revision as of 23:17, 8 September 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
Presuppositions
The following sentences make certain presuppositions. Indicate which of the given candidate inferences are presuppositions?