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Generic and Specific Reference - Exercises

This document contains 15 statements that are categorized as either generic or specific references. Generic references make general statements about groups, types or classes, while specific references specify a particular instance or individual. The document provides examples of both generic and specific references related to topics like transportation, social order, science, and tigers.

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Generic and Specific Reference - Exercises

This document contains 15 statements that are categorized as either generic or specific references. Generic references make general statements about groups, types or classes, while specific references specify a particular instance or individual. The document provides examples of both generic and specific references related to topics like transportation, social order, science, and tigers.

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Generic and specific reference - exercises

1. They promise to pay an extra of 1000e to Peter if the task is


finished on time. specific
2. Cultures are best understood by those who live in them generic
3. A stem cell is a precursor cell that can give rise to multiple tissue
types. generic
4. People should be encouraged to use public transport in order to
reduce traffic jams. generic
5. Once the working class knew that the picture of social order and
democracy was only ideology, it motivated them to revolt.
generic
6. The driver is not insured and will not be able to pay the
compensation specific
7. Scientists plan to clone plants, animals and human beings.
generic
8. A tiger will bite if provoked. generic
9. A tiger bit me when I provoked it specific
10. I sat next to a doctor on the board. specific
11. Is there a doctor on the board generic
12. The tiger bit me. specific
13. The tiger hunts by night and sleeps by day. generic
14. Tigers hunt by night and sleep by day. generic
15. The tigers bit me specific only specific!!! You cant say the
tigers to mean the class of tigers so never generic. You
can never say: I like the cats! Or The bananas are good for
you.

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