The following sentences have certain presuppositions that ensure their appropriateness. What are they?
Example: The minors promised the police to stop drinking.
Presupposition: The minors were drinking.
- It is an atrocity that the World Trade Center was attacked on September 11,2001.
- It isn’t tolerable that the World Trade Center was attacked on September 11,2001.
- Mary drank one more beer before leaving.
- Jack knows who discovered Pluto in 1930.
- Mary was horrified to find a cockroach in her bed.
