Blog Post 2

  1. a) ‘Leo is younger than Thomas’  entails  b) ‘Thomas is older than Leo’.
  2. a) ‘Brandon forgot to pay his friend back’  presupposes  b) ‘Brandon intended to pay his friend back’.    Presupposition trigger: “forgot”.
  3. a) ‘Nicole stopped hanging out with Lauren’  presupposes  b) ‘Nicole used to hang out with Lauren’.    Presupposition trigger: “stopped”.

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