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Guide for the next Quiz (After spring break). Solve it today!

- You can't answer this guide without the proper instructions. - Please make sure you'll get the materials for the instructions in order to answer the exercise. The instructions are NOT featured on this page. These are only the questions for the guide. You will need to hand out the answers for the guide @ 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday so you´ll have 1 whole day and 30 minutes of the next class to finish it.  1. Why do we use language? 2. What is semantics? 3. Does the sentence “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” obey all the syntactic rules of English?  4. Why are the phrases “Walls have ears” and “A grief ago” named as metaphors?  5. Write 3 examples of idiomatic phrases. 6. Why are proper names taken into account as noun phrases (NPs)? 7. Write down 3 noun phrases?  8. What are synonyms?  9. What are antonyms?  10. What are homonyms or homophones?  11. When is it said that a word is named as polysemous?  12. When sets of wor...