WorksheetsLinguistics game (Semantics, Syntax and Morphology)
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
What type of word is best classified using semantic features?
Determiner
Noun
Preposition
Verb
Semantics is ____________ .
The study of word formation
The study of the sound system of language
The study of meaning of words, phrases and sentences
"A triangle has four sides" is an example of a __________ sentence.
Contradictory
Synthetic
Analytic
Lexical ambiguity refers to ____________ .
Words that have the same meaning
A word that has more than one meaning
Words that have different meaning
The antonym of COMMISSIONED
Started
Closed
Finished
Terminated
Many people try to resist reforms in the society.
Fight
Accept
Welcome
Repel
What is the meaning of homographs?
Same sound, same spelling but different meanings
Different sound but same spelling
Different spelling, different meaning but same sound
Syntax is the study of __________________.
Word formation
How language is used to communicate within its situation
Linguistics Meaning
Phrases, Clauses, and Sentences
Word order is another way of saying Syntax.
False
True
________was one of the most influential linguists in the field of Syntax.
Paul Broca
Carl Wernicke
Noam Chomsky
William Shakespeare
My mother was very secretive about her past because it was painful for her VS because it was painful for her, my mother was very secretive about her past.
This sentence is an example of:
Semantic
Different sentence structure
Syntax
All of the above
Macbeth is Shakespeare's most violent play, so it is not an ideal family entertainment.
Compound
Complex
With Syntax ____________.
The author makes the reading complex
The author alters the tone of a sentence
The author controls the pacing of the text
The structural similarities between parts of a sentence is referred to as
Correlative Structure
Subordinating Structure
Parallel Structure
Figurative Language
What is morphology ?
branch of linguistics that looks at the meanings of words and language
study of the internal structure of words and forms a core part of linguistics study
branch of linguistics that focuses on the production and classification of the world's speech sounds
In the english language inflectional morphemes can be ____.
infixes
suffixes
infixes and suffixes
What can words be divided to?
morphemes
lexemes
Which of the following is a morpheme?
th
re
sh
How many morphemes composed with the word "unattractive" ?
2
3
4
How many inflectional morphemes in english?
6
7
8
