Week 1

Generative Grammar focuses on understanding the rules that generate all possible grammatical sentences.

• True

• False

Descriptive grammar is concerned with prescribing how people should speak or write.

• True

• False

Who is the linguist most associated with the development of Generative Grammar?

• Ferdinand de Saussure

• Noam Chomsky

• Leonard Bloomfield

• Edward Sapir

Which term refers to a speaker's unconscious knowledge of their language's grammar?

• Performance

• Prescriptive Grammar

• Competence

• I-language

Performance refers to the actual use of language in real-life situations.

• True

• False

What is "Universal Grammar" according to Chomsky?

• The set of grammatical rules specific to English.

• The collection of language norms taught in schools.

• The grammar used in formal writing.

• A set of rules that underlie all human languages.

Prescriptive grammar focuses on how people actually use language.

• True

• False

Which of the following is an example of descriptive grammar?

• “The use of double negatives is common in some dialects.”

• “Don’t split infinitives.”

• “Never end a sentence with a preposition.”

• “Always use a subject and a verb in a sentence.”

Language acquisition refers to the subconscious process of learning language, especially in children.

• True

• False

What is the process of forming hypotheses and testing them in linguistic research called?

• Scientific Method

• Prescriptive Grammar

• Competence

• Universal Grammar