PT114.S2.Q15

PrepTest 114 - Section 2 - Question 15

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Ashley: Words like "of" and "upon," unlike "pencil" and "shirt," do not refer to anything.

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Analysis

Ashley simply makes a factual statement about words—some don’t refer to anything. Joshua assumes that this implies that those words are meaningless.

We’re looking for an answer choice that describes the condition that Joshua implicitly employs to draw his conclusion (if a word doesn’t refer to anything, then it is meaningless).

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15.

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words that are ███ ██████ ███ ███████████

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words that refer ██ █████████ ███ ██████████

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if a word ██ ███ ███████ ██ ██████ ██ █████████

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all words that █████ ██ █████████ ███ ██████

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