Which of the following statements is NOT true?
Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A、Collocation can affect the meaning of words.
B、In the phrase the tongues of fire, Bthe word tongues is semantically motivated.
C、Grammatical meaning refers to the part of speech,tenses of verbs and stylistic features of words.
D、By etymological motivation,we mean that the meaning of a particular word is related to its origin.
【正确答案】:C
【题目解析】:As mentioned earliergrammatical meanings refers to that part of the meaning of the word which indicates grammatical concept or relationships such as part of speech of words.(nounsverbs,adjectives,adverbs), singular and plural meaning of nouns,tense meaning of verbs and their inflectional forms.(如前所述,语法意义是指表示语法概念或关系的词义部分,例如词的词性(名词、动词、形容词、副词)、名词的单数和复数意义、动词的时态意义及其屈折形式。) P86
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