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Name: Maryan Banyameen

Id: 2110068
Course: Semantics and pragmatics
Instructor: Doctor Wael Hamdan
Part A: Assignment 1
1- Here (a) and (b) are two different sentences, and the
two of them are two variants of different propositions,
because they don’t have the same meaning. Moreover,
the two of them has a grammatical structure, but they
don’t have a semantic content here, because there’s a
change in word order, in the first one Mary loves John,
but in the second one John loves Jane, so the two
sentences not identical, because when the order of the
words changed the meaning also differ, but it's not
necessary.
2- Here a and b are two different sentences, but they have
the same meaning, so the two of them are two variants
of the same preposition.
3- Here sentence (a) shows that a person need a car, but
the second one which is (b) ) shows that a person
purchased a car, so the two sentences does not have
the same semantic content, so they are two variants of
different preposition.
4- Here a and b are two different sentences, but they have
the same meaning, so the two of them are two variants
of the same proposition, because the two of them
shows that there is an old man died at 4 o’clock.
5- Here A and B are two different sentences and they are
not in the same order, but they have the same meaning,
so the two of them are two variants of the same
preposition.
6- Here a and b are two different sentences, but they have
the same meaning, so the two of them are two variants
of the same proposition, because the word like and the
word fond are synonyms of each other.
7- Here a and b are two different sentences, but they have
the same meaning, so the two of them are two variants
of the same preposition.
8- Here in sentence (a )shows that there is a businessman
was killed by a criminal, while sentence (b) only shows
that there’s a businessman killed ,but without saying
who killed this businessman, so these two sentences
are not identical, so they are two variant of different
preposition.
9- Here a and b are two different sentences, but they have
the same meaning, so the two of them are two variants
of the same proposition, because the two sentences
shows that there is a company that never completed
any project on time.
10- Here (a) and (b) are two different sentences, but
they have the same meaning, so the two of them are
two variants of the same proposition, because the two
sentences shows that there is a guy named Peter wrote
the answer down.
Assignment 2: part 2
1- Here the truth of sentence ( a) does not depends
on the truth of sentence (b) and the truth of
sentence B does not depend on the truth of
sentence (a) ,so we can understand by that (a)
does not entails (B) and (b) does not entails (a),
because earning a great deal of money does not
mean that the person spends a great deal of
money.
2- Here the truth of (a) depends on the truth of (b) and
the truth of (b) depends on the truth of (a), so we
can say the proposition a entails position B and
likewise, the proposition b entails preposition a.
3- Here the truth of sentence (a) does not depends on
the truth of sentence (b) and likewise, the truth of
(b) does not depends on the truth of (a), so (a) does
not entails B and (B) does not entails (a), because
the first sentence said that no one lives in a great
comfortable, but the second one said that there is
a chance for some people to live in a great
comfortable.
4- Here the truth of sentence (A) does not depends on
the truth of sentence (b) and likewise, so (a) does
not entails (B) and (b) does not entails (a) because
a square hole is a type of rectangle hole but a
rectangle hole not a square.
5- Here the truth of sentence( a) does not depend on
the truth of sentence (b) and likewise, so it does (a)
does not entails (B) and (B) does not entails (a),
because the university teacher it’s not necessary to
be a professor.
6- Here the truth of (a) depends on the truth of (B),
and the truth of (B) depends on the truth of (a), so
we can say the proposition (a) entails preposition
(B) and likewise, the proposition (b) entails
proposition (a).
7- Here the truth of sentence (a) does not depend on
the truth of sentence (b) and likewise, so (a) does
not entails (b) and (B) does not entails (a), because
a small vehicle does not necessary to be a bus, it
could be a car.
8- Here sentence A entails sentence b, because it
said that she bought an apartment, so apartment
could be considered as something.
9- Here sentence a entails sentence b, because in
Europe there’s many countries and it’s not
necessary if a person work in Europe that person is
Britain.
10- Here sentence a does not entails sentence B
and likewise, because the disturbance that caused
by speech it’s not necessary to be deep.

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