Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each reading by the kind of interpretation it performs.
Groups: Declarative · Restrictive · Extensive
- Ordinary parlance
- Email is written
- Exact plain words
- Pushchair excluded
- Pitch is dwelling
- Work tool excluded
Hints
- One column neither narrows nor widens what the words ordinarily cover.
- Asking whether the reading takes something out or brings something in sorts the other two.
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Declarative: Exact plain words, Ordinary parlance
Restrictive: Pushchair excluded, Work tool excluded
Extensive: Email is written, Pitch is dwelling
Why
The three labels describe the result of interpreting, not a method used to do it. Nobody sets out to interpret extensively; one applies the criteria of Article 3.1 and then observes that the outcome reaches further than the ordinary sense of the words. Naming the result is a check on the reasoning, not a substitute for it.
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