I. Directions: Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four
1. Modern linguistics differs from traditional grammar for it is mostly _________.
A.prescriptive    B.descriptive    C. subjective    D. Latin-based
2. A linguist regards the changes in language and language use as ________.
A. abnormal    B. something to be feared      C.natural        D. unnatural
3. Which of the following sounds is a voiced consonant?
A. [d]    B.[t]    C.[p]    D.[t]
4. There are ___________morphemes in the word “disabled”
A. one    B. two    C. three    D. four
5. In English, “dis-“ is called________
A. a free morpheme    B. a suffix      C. an infix                D. a prefix
6.Black English is probably the most widespread and most familiar ____ variety of the English language.
A. regional        B. ethnic        C. social            D. lower class
7.The pair of words “alive” and “dead” are _____________.
A. gradable antonyms            B. complementary antonyms
C. relational opposites            D. co-hyponyms
8.____ belong(s) to the Indo-European language family.
A. English    B. German      C. French    D. All of them
9.The sentence “Kids like apples” is a___________.
A. two-place predication        B. three-place predication
C. no-place predication          D. one-place predication
10.What is the construction of the sentence: “The baby smiled”?
A. subordinate        B. coordinate      C. exocentric        D. endocentric
1.F. de Saussure is a(n) _________ linguist.
A. American    B. Swiss    C. British    D. Russian
2. Which of the following sounds is a voiced bilabial stop
A. [p]    B. [m]    C. [b]    D. [t]
3. Of the “words” listed below, __________ is not an English word.
A. [spin]    B. [lkbi]    C.[strikt]    D. [desk]
4. The affixes which manifest various grammatical relations or grammatical categories such as “-ing,-est” are called __________.
A. derivational affixes    B. free morphemes    C. inflectional affixes    D. roots
5. The sentence containing two clauses joined by a linking word is called a ____________ sentence.
A. coordinate        B. simple      C. subordinate    D. embedded
6. “Words are names or labels for things.” This view is called _________ in semantic theory.
A. mentalism            B. contextualism      C. conceptualism    D. naming theory
7. The semantic relationship between flower and rose is _______.
A.hyponyms          B. hyponymy      C. co-hyponyms    D. superordinate
8. The words such as handbook and highway are ___________.
A. formed by blending      B. coined by back-formation
C. compound words        D. derivations
9. X-bar theory is __________________.
A. highly specific and concrete, therefore only useful to solve concrete problems
B. capable of reducing the redundancies of individual phrasal structure rules
C. so highly abstract that it can explain all the properties of all phrasal categories
D. inefficient in coping with the language structures other than those of English minimal
10. The words “railway” and “railroad” are __________.
A. synonyms differing in emotive meaning
B. synonyms differing in styles
C. dialectal synonyms
D. synonyms differing in register
1. The study of language development at some point in time is generally termed as ___________ linguistics.
A. comparative    B. applied    C. synchronic    D. diachronic
2. N. Chomsky is a famous _____________ linguist.
A. American      B. British      C. Greek            D. Swiss
3. In the following sounds ___________ is a voiceless consonant..
A. [d]    B.[g]    C. [t]    D. [b]
4. In English, “pill” and “bill” are ___________.
A. a phonemic contrast    B. complementary distribution
C. assimilation                D a minimal pair
5. The word “unhappiness” has ____________ morpheme(s)
A. one    B. two    C. three    D. four
6. In English the letter combination “care” in the word “carelessness” is called ___________.
A. suffix        B. prefix        C. infix    D. free morpheme
7. A word with several meaning is called _________.
A. a synonymous word      B. a polysemous word    C. an abnormal word    D. none of the above

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