1. Classify the following utterances by use. Do any of them belong to any of the classes of sentence defined here syntactically?
| a. | Amen. |
| b. | Hallelujah! |
| c. | What a sight. |
| d. | Wow! |
| e. | Pfew (or Whew) |
| f. | In God we trust. |
| g. | So long. |
2. Classify the following sentences syntactically. Tell whether each is affirmative or negative. If the sentence is interrogative, indicate which of the subclasses it belongs to.
| a. | Be fair and truthful, yet strict and firm. |
| b. | We cannot consecrate this ground. |
| c. | Why wait for the government? |
| d. | On the top of which mountain was it erected? |
| e. | Will everyone please not cry? |
| f. | I declare this my last will. |
3. Name five ways in which an assertion by use of a declarative sentence may fail to hold in a given situation. Are these the felicity conditions? Make sure these ways are valid for any declarative sentence according to the conceptualization in ¶6-5-1.
4. Might any of the sentences in 2 have a form that would not normally or necessarily reflect its use? Point out alternative interpretations and tell what semantic transformations would describe the discrepancy.