Outside of the Box- Erin

Outside of the Box- Erin

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Outside of the Box- Erin

Outside of the Box- Erin

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Quiz

English

12th Grade

Medium

Created by

Zuri Saddai Ruiz Montejano

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9 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 sec • 1 pt

Who is Erin McKean?

A librarian

A lexicographer

A university professor

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

What is a lexicographer? Someone who..

decides what a word is

makes dictionaries

invents new words

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 sec • 1 pt

Whose decision is it to decide if a word is a word?

a lexicographer

people in general

the government

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 sec • 1 pt

Which is not a kind of grammar?

the unconcious rules you follow

usage / suitability

stolen words and structure from other languages

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 sec • 1 pt

When you take a word from another language , what is it called?

compounding

blending

borrowing

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 sec • 1 pt

Lunchbox - What is this an example of?

Blending

Compounding

Functional shift

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 sec • 1 pt

Google - To Google - What is this an example of?

compounding

Back formation

functional shift

8.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 sec • 1 pt

Which is an acronym?

PrepaTec

Hi

NASA

9.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

10 sec • 1 pt

Why should you make up words according to the speaker?

to confuse people

to have fun

to express yourself -get your message across