NET English Paper 3 December 2013 Q.40

40. In many ways, grammatical categories remain mysterious. Whatdoes it mean to speak a language that in every sentence requires you to locate yourself in time, or specify your source of knowledge, or the shape of what you are talking about? We still don’t know. But putting the question like this suggests a clear andlimited way of interpreting the idea that different languages represent different worlds. Which of the following statements on this passage interprets it most accurately?

1. The passage reflects the unreliability of grammatical categories of a language generally.
2. The passage concedes that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis cannot be discounted entirely.
3. The passage upholds the reliability of grammatical categories of a language generally.
4. The passage suggests that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is largely discredited today

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