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Grammar Quiz
1.
In the sentence "John kicked the football across the yard," what is the verb?
John
across
kicked
football
2.
Which is the plural of ox?
oxes
oxi
oxen
oxia
3.
What is the plural form of the word "goose"?
gooses
gouse
geese
geeses
4.
What word describes a word that sounds like the noise it makes?
simile
onomatopoeia
allegory
metaphor
5.
In grammar, what is the name of a word that modifies a noun?
adjective
adverb
verb
noun
6.
In grammar, what is the name of a word for a person, place, or thing?
adverb
noun
adjective
verb
7.
Which of these is an adverb?
mean
median
meantime
meanwhile
8.
What is the study of the grammatical structures of sentences?
Prose
Orthography
Syntax
Conjunction
9.
In grammar, what does the tense express?
thing
person
time
place
10.
In grammar, what are figures involving a change in a sense, such as metaphor, simile, and irony called?
Haiku
Jargon
Trope
Riddle
11.
What is a word or a group of words that is self-contradicting called?
Antithesis
Oxymoron
Litotes
Synecdoche
12.
What is the most common type of rhyme in English poetry?
Beginning rhyme
End Rhyme
Internal rhyme
Slant rhyme
13.
How many types of moods are there in English grammar?
2
3
4
5
14.
In grammar, what is the name of a word that adds meaning to the basic meaning of the main verb?
Intransitive verb
Auxiliary verb
Transitive verb
Stative verb
15.
What type of syllable ends with a vowel?
Open syllable
Diphthong syllable
Consonant-le syllable
Closed syllable
16.
What type of noun does kenning, a concise compound, replace?
Collective noun
Common noun
Proper noun
Abstract noun
17.
Metaphysical and Petrarchan are types of what figure of speech?
Appositive
Trope
Platitude
Conceit
18.
In which figure of speech, a striking opposition or contrast of words is made in the same sentence to secure emphasis?
Diction
Hubris
Antithesis
Apologues
19.
How many types of affixes are there?
8
5
2
3
20.
What are the "i" in fit and the "a" in the pack?
Word
Syllable
Vowel
Consonant
21.
In grammar, what is the use of spacing, conventional signs, and typographical devices called?
Intensifier
Punctuation
Phrase
Direct Speech
22.
Which language analysis recognizes the relationship among the various elements of a sentence?
Generative grammar
Prescriptive grammar
Descriptive grammar
Transformational grammar
23.
In grammar, which verb reflects the speaker’s view towards the character of an event?
Plot
Setting
Style
Mood
24.
What is the name of the word that is attached to a word stem to alter its meaning?
Idiom
Caesura
Motif
Affix
25.
What word describes the formation of a word by changing the base or by adding a prefix or a suffix?
Inflection
Derivation
Harangue
Exposition
26.
In which figure of speech does a speaker directly address a single person or thing?
Dystopia
Farce
Apostrophe
Juxtaposition
27.
Which figure of speech is characterized by the deliberate omission of a word or words?
Imagery
Malapropism
Neologism
Ellipsis
28.
Which grammatical form is used in speaking to a social superior?
Honorific
Ambiguity
Euphemism
Excursus
29.
What is the name of a grammatical process in which words are formed by a sequence of morphemes without a change in spelling or phonetics?
Word phrase
Reduplication
Agglutination
Sentence structure
30.
Which school of linguistic thought and analysis was established by Vilém Mathesius in 1926?
Copenhagen School
Prague School
International Linguistic Association
Société de Linguistique de Paris
31.
Which term was introduced by Leonard Bloomfield in 1933 that divides sentences into successive layers or constituents?
phonological conditioning (linguistics) [NT]
glosseme
polysynthesis
Immediate constituent analysis
32.
What is the study of the internal construction of words called?
Linguistics
Morphology
Lexicon
Etymology
33.
What do we call a word that results from putting two or more words or parts of words?
Cataphor
Prefix
Portmanteau word
Alphagram
34.
What is the smallest grammatical unit of speech?
Sentence
Form
Word
Morpheme
35.
What is the form of language that is spoken in a particular region or by a group of people?
Dialect
Argot
Slang
Jargon
36.
What is the study of language and culture called?
Ethnolinguistics
Cultural anthropology
Social dialectology
Phonology
37.
Which Greek grammarian was called the "prince of grammarians"?
Dionysius Thrax
Apollonius Dyscolus
Crates of Mallus
Manuel Chrysoloras
38.
Who wrote the book "About Analogy"?
Bernard de Chartres
Aristophanes of Byzantium
Pindar
Berthold Delbrück
39.
Which of these works is written by grammarian George O. Curme?
Grammar of the German Language
The Meaning of Meaning
Interlingua: A Grammar of the International Language
The Sound Pattern of English
40.
Which book did Hermann Hirt publish between 1921 and 1937?
Orthographia bohemica
De vulgari eloquentia
De immortalitate animae
Indogermanische Grammatik
41.
Which grammarian is known as the founder of the study of Hebrew syntax?
Johan Nicolai Madvig
Ibn Janāḥ
Isaac Aboab I
Yehuda Halevi
42.
What was the name of the artificial language constructed in 1928 by the Danish philologist Otto Jespersen?
Ido
Novial
Guosa
Volapük
43.
Who wrote the book Sefer ha-zikkaron?
Joseph Kimhi
Maimonides
Rabbeinu Tam
Abraham Geiger
44.
Who was the originator of Stratificational grammar?
Sydney M. Lamb
Roman Jakobson
Edward Sapir
Leonard Bloomfield
45.
Which of the following work is written by Greek grammarian Manuel Moschopoulos?
Maliseet Vocabulary
Erotemata grammatika
Danmarks Oldtid
Le Bon Usage
46.
Who is the author of the De compendiosa doctrina?
Diomedes
Aelius Donatus
Priscian
Nonius Marcellus
47.
Who was the originator of Tagmemics, a system of linguistic methodology?
Kenneth L. Pike
Antoine Meillet
Pietro Bembo
Robert E. Longacre
48.
Which German linguist known for the Stammbaumtheorie or family-tree theory?
Jacob Grimm
Gottlob Krause
August Schleicher
Theodor Nöldeke
49.
Who among the following founded and edited the Indogermanische Forschungen?
Wilhelm Streitberg
Franz Bopp
Jan Baudouin de Courtenay
Eveline einhauser
50.
What is the plural of bacteria?
bacteri
bacterial
bacterias
bacterium
51.
Which is the plural of codex?
codexes
codexis
code
codices
52.
What is the plural form of the word "leaf"?
leafs
leeves
leaves
leavys
53.
What is the plural form of the word "moose"?
moose
meese
moos
mooses
54.
Which is the plural of vertebra?
vertebraces
vertebrae
vertebras
vertebrates
55.
Who wrote the first grammar of the Indian language Tupí?
Aelfric
José de Anchieta
Bhatti
Andrés Bello
56.
Which scholar authored 3,500 books that earned him the nickname Chalkenteros (“Brass Guts”)?
Josef Dobrovský
Otto Behaghel
Ahmed Cevdet Paşa
Didymus Chalkenteros
57.
Which South African poet and novelist is called the “father of Xhosa poetry”?
S.E.K. Mqhayi
Casey Motsisi
Lettie Viljoen
Richard Rive
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