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The notion of ‘covert prestige’ pertains to which of the following? (Choose as many answers as you think apply)
-Non-standard varieties
-Speech communities that value their one way of speaking
-Anti language
-Prescriptively ‘correct’ grammar
Non-standard varieties, Anti language, Speech communities that value their one way of speaking
Which of the following is NOT a dialect (or dialect group) of English?
- African American Vernacular English
- Hiberno-English
- Standard English
- Received Pronunciation
Received Pronunciation
Which of the following are Prescriptive rules of English?
-Never end a sentence with a preposition
- The usual word order is Subject-Verb-Object
- Do not split an infinitive
- Avoid double or multiple negation
Do not split an infinitive, Avoid double or multiple negation, never end a sentence with a preposition,
Register is linguistic variation according to which of the following? (Choose as many answers as you think apply)
- The situation in which language use occurs
- The context of use
- The accent of the speaker
- The purposes for which language use occurs
- The situation in which language use occurs
- The context of use
- The purposes for which language use occurs
The sentence ‘he be working Tuesday’s’ is an example of which of the following? (Choose as many answers as you think apply)
- Habitual ‘be’
-Hiberno-English
- African-American Vernacular (AAV)
All 3
The sentence “I’m just after seeing your ex-wife” is an example of which of the following? (choose as many answers as you think apply)
- Bad grammar
- A regional dialect form
- A social dialect form
- Hiberno-English
Hiberno English, regional dialect form, social dialect form
Which articulators are used to produce the first sound in the word ‘car’?
- Lower lip
- Upper teeth
- Tongue tip
- Soft palate
Soft palate
Which articulators are used to produce the first sound in the word ‘friend’?
- Lower lip
- Upper lip
- ???
- ???
Lower lip
What is the CV structure of the word ‘three’?
- CCCVV
- CCV
- CVCV
- VCVC
CCV
What is the CV structure of the word ‘unity’?
- CVVCV
- VCVCV
- CVCVCV
- VCVCC
VCVCV
What is the CV structure of the word phone?
- CVC
-CCVCV
- CCVC
- CVCV
CVCV
Is the first sound in ‘variety’ voiced or voiceless?
-Voiced
-Voiceless
Voiced
Is the final sound in ‘luck’ voiced or voiceless?
- Voiced
-Voiceless
Voiceless
The word ‘fast’ can be a noun, a verb, an adverb and an adjective in the sentence ‘The fast runner was fast becoming bored of his fast’ the word fast appears as?
- An adjective, a verb, and a noun
- A noun, an adverb, and a verb
- An adverb, a noun, and a verb
- An adjective, an adverb, and a noun
An adjective, a verb, and a noun
The sentence ‘He saw her duck’ is ambiguous because the word ‘duck’ can belong to more than one syntactic category. Which ones?
- Noun and Verb
Noun and Verb
In which of these sentences is ‘down’ a verb?
- He downed that pint rather quickly
- They walked down the road
- We live in the County Down
- The house fell down
He downed that pint rather quickly
Which of these nonsense words is acting as an adjective in the nonsense sentence ‘The blonks spiggled the slape onto the gribbish furgle”?
- Spiggled
- Blonks
- Furgle
- Gribbish
- Slape
Spiggled
Choose as many of these statements as you think apply in order to be grammatical a sentence must . . .
- Be true
- Make sense
Which of these sentences is ungrammatical?
- The borogroves gimbled in the wabe
- Tests taken’t have I any yet.
- I tried to quickley eat my dinner
- The soup coughed healthily.
Tests taken’t have I any yet
‘This winter all the students will go home for Christmas’ Which of the following test sentences demonstrate that the subject of this sentence is ‘all the students’ ?
- Home is where all the students will go this Christmas
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From the list below, select the kinds of morphemes that are NOT illustrated by any of the capitalized parts of the following words: terrorisED unCIVILised IMpossible democratiSE?
- Free root - No
- Inflectional suffix
- Inflectional prefix
- Derivational suffix - no
- Derivational prefix - no
- Bound root - No
Inflectional prefix
‘All the students will have vacation jobs next summer.’ Which of the following is the Passive of this sentence?
- Vacation jobs, all the students will have next summer
- Vacation jobs will be had by all the students next summer
- Vacation jobs are what all the students will have next summer
- Next summer, all the students will have vacation jobs
Vacation jobs will be had by all the students next summer
Which of the following statements are true? (Select as many as you find to be true)
- A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning
- All words consist of at least one morpheme
- All morphemes are either prefixes or suffixes
- All derivational morphemes turn nouns into verbs
A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning, All words consist of at least one morpheme
Irony is a means of flouting the maxim of…
- Quantity
- Quality
- Manner
- Relation
Quality
