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EXERCISES UNIT 2- MEANING 1- What semantic relations are involved in the following pairs of lexemes? a) Antonym b) Antonym c) Antonym d) Synonym e) Antonym f) Synonym g) Antonym h) Antonym i) Antonym j) Synonym k) Synonym l) Antonym m) Synonym n) Antonym 2- Find synonyms for the following English words. Are your synonyms exact or approximate? Faithful : devoted Believe: hope, expect Stretch: inflate, expand Break: bust, destroy Ground: earth, split Habit: robe, routine 3- English has a number of verbs relating to cooking, among them the following morphologically simple ones : cook, fry, boil, etc. Suggest a set of semantic features that distinguish these verbs from one another, and provide a full feature description for each verb. This list contain verbs of cooking that form subgroups, which can be captured by features. Thus fry and boil all involve liquid in contrast to the other verbs. They differ from or another in various ways, then steam could be described as water. The three verbs bake , grill and toast differ the terms of the location and the feature intense and out sick respectively. The verb would be unmarked for all of these features. 4- Suggest semantic features that will distinguish the following verbs of motion

WALK + movement -air +legs -water +ground

FLY +movement +air -legs -water -ground

JUMP +movement +/- air +legs -water +/- ground

SWIM +movement -air +legs +water -ground

5- List as many hyponyms as you can of furniture. FURNITURE

CHAIR

TABLE

WARDROBE

ARMCHAIR ROCKINGCHAIR DESK WASHSTAND DRESSES CLOTHES

6- Make up a list of meronyms of car Parts of a car: windows, doors, sits, airbags…..etc 7- How would you explain the meaning of mouse? -

A computed device Small animal Shy people Library mouse

8- Look up some words. Find the lexical items in the definition that are most closely related semantically to the word, and look up their definitions in the dictionary. Continue this process and see how long it takes you to get back to your original.

THINK

OPINION MIND

BELIEF

FEELING SENSES

INFORMATION

9- Think of contexts in which the following sentences can be used with the illocutionary force indicated: a) Command/request for action b) Rejection of advice c) Refusal offer d) Denial of permission e) Complain f) Yes/no question...