Question

Which statements describe Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language? Check all that apply.

It was published in the late 1800s.
It includes over forty thousand definitions.
It includes information about word origins.
It has a preface written by William Shakespeare.
It offers excerpted examples of the words in literature.

Answer 1

Correct statements:
- It includes over forty thousand definitions.
- It includes information about word origins.
- It offers excerpted examples of the words in literature.

Incorrect statements:
- It was published in the late 1800s. (It was first published in 1755.)
- It has a preface written by William Shakespeare. (Samuel Johnson himself wrote the famous Preface.)