Exercise Presuppositions

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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?

1 Would you mind washing up the dishes this time?

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.

2 I want more milk for my tea!

Done


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