Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. When we say that someone is Puerto Rican, we are using language to organize and classify. 
2. Words can be used to classify people for good or ill: clean, ambitious, and successful, or alcoholic, addicted, and ugly. 
3. Saying a wolf is "a man who aggressively pursues women" is a denotative meaning. 
4. Saying a bigot is "someone who despises people who are different" is a denotative meaning. 
5. Denotative meanings are ideas suggested by a word. 


1. True
2. True
3. False
4. True
5. False

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