2nd Compilation of Grammar Quiz

What is the main idea of the passage?

• People are learning new languages faster

• Modern languages are replacing traditional customs

• Many world languages are disappearing rapidly

• City life supports endangered languages

According to the text, what is often lost when a language disappears?

• Population growth

• Storytelling and cultural knowledge

• Urban traditions

• Mobile education

Why do young people tend to stop using their native language?

• They have no access to education

• They don't speak to elders anymore

• They move to cities and adopt dominant languages

• They travel too much

What are communities doing to preserve endangered languages?

• Removing foreign influences

• Publishing in newspapers

• Recording stories and developing learning tools

• Moving back to villages

Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a threat to language survival?

• Urban migration

• Lack of preservation efforts

• Government bans on language use

• Dominance of global languages

Choose the correct negative question for confirmation: You saw the documentary about vanishing languages, ______?

• haven't you

• didn't you

• don't you

• had you

Which sentence uses a contracted negative question to express polite opinion?

• Would it be better to support endangered languages?

• Don't we all agree that native speakers should be encouraged?

• Did not we agree on this already?

• Are we not learning about this today?

Choose the most polite way to express disagreement as a negative question:

• You can't be serious about dropping language classes, can you?

• Can't you reconsider dropping language classes?

• You really plan to drop language classes, huh?

• Shouldn't be dropping language classes?

Which sentence uses the uncontracted form of a negative question?

• Doesn't she speak Spanish?

• Didn't you visit the school last week?

• Are you not attending the meeting today?

• Haven't they arrived yet?

What's the implied meaning of this question: "Didn't he grow up speaking Cherokee?"

• The speaker is unsure about the language

• The speaker doubts he speaks Cherokee

• The speaker believes he did

• The speaker suggests he should learn it