Language and Linguistics Metalanguage Quiz

William, Liam, and Benjamin are learning about language. William says a morpheme is a unit of meaning. Liam says it's a type of verb. Benjamin thinks it's a unit of sound. Another friend says it's a type of sentence. Who is correct?

• William

• Liam

• Benjamin

• The other friend

Michael is learning about morphemes in his linguistics class. His professor asks, 'Michael, can you tell me what an inflectional morpheme is?'

• A morpheme that changes the grammatical element of a root morpheme

• A morpheme that cannot be further divided

• A morpheme that creates a new word

• A morpheme that changes the denotation and/or word class of a lexeme

What is collocation?

• Words that have similar meanings

• Words that routinely combine together

• Words that cannot combine together

• Words that have opposite meanings

Ethan, Henry, and Grace are discussing the types of nouns they learned in their English class. Can you recall what they are?

• Proper, concrete, mass, collective

• Common, concrete, abstract, count, mass, proper, collective

• Common, concrete, abstract, count

• Proper, abstract, count, collective

Abigail, Kai, and William are in a language class. Their teacher asked, 'What is a phrase?' How should they respond?

• 'A phrase is a collection of words that have a relationship to each other.'

• 'A phrase is a complete sentence.'

• 'A phrase is a type of verb.'

• 'A phrase is a type of pronoun.'

David is writing a sentence. He writes 'David eats an apple'. In this sentence, what does 'SVO' stand for?

• Subject, verb, adjective

• Subject, verb, adverb

• Subject, verb, object

• Subject, verb, pronoun

What is a pronoun?

• A type of adjective

• A word that replaces a noun

• A type of verb

• A type of noun

Michael is writing a story and wants to express possibility, probability, or doubt. Which type of verbs should he use?

• Verbs that express emphasis

• Modal verbs

• Verbs that express comparison

• Verbs that express tense, number, person

What is a sentence?

• A set of lexemes that is incomplete

• A set of lexemes that is complete

• A set of lexemes that is a phrase

• A set of lexemes that is a clause

Benjamin, Grace, and Aria are discussing the difference between a sentence type and a sentence structure. Benjamin says, 'Type refers to the function, structure refers to the grammatical construction.' Is Benjamin correct?

• Yes, Type refers to the function, structure refers to the grammatical construction

• No, Type refers to the grammatical construction, structure refers to the function

• No, Type refers to the predicate, structure refers to the subject

• No, Type refers to the subject, structure refers to the predicate