• 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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