3. TOPIC 8 WORKSHEET PRESUPPOSITION & ENTAILMENT

add text which either negates or
suspends the presuppositions:

1. I wonder what you’re thinking about

Negates: I wasn’t thinking about anything

Suspends: I can’t tell you

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suspends the presuppositions:

2. Who’s there?

Negates: No one, the room is empty

Suspends: I don’t know, I can’t see it

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suspends the presuppositions:

3. I began jogging after a visit to the doctor

Negates: But you have never jogged!

Suspends: but you are not jogging now

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suspends the presuppositions:

4. Her successor managed to win the election that followed

Negates: but she did not win them!

Suspends: her campaign wasn’t too bad

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suspends the presuppositions:

5. It was the Scots who invented whisky

Negates: No it wasn’t, it was the Irish

Suspends: it could have also been the Irish

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suspends the presuppositions:

6. If you had sent me a Christmas card last year, I would have sent you one this year.

Negates: I did send you one!

Suspends: If you had given me the right address, you would have received one!