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English Language first checkpoint

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is morphology the study of?

a)

the level of language consisting of vocabulary

b)

the study of sentences

c)

how things are put together

d)

the level of language consisting of sounds

2.

What is a bound morpheme?

a)

an affix placed before the stem of a word

b)

a morpheme that cannot stand alone as a word

c)

a prefix placed after the stem of a word

d)

the smallest unit of language that can stand alone

3.

Which of the following is NOT an affix?

a)

ly

b)

ing

c)

uni

d)

go

4.

What do derivational affixes do?

a)

create new words by changing the word class or meaning

b)

indicate a change of tense

c)

indicate a change of action

d)

nothing worth commenting on

5.

Why are inflectional affixes ALWAYS suffixes?

a)

just because they are

b)

because they indicate grammatical features

c)

because they are always at the end of a word

d)

because they are bound morphemes

6.

Which of these sentences contains a COMPARATIVE inflectional affix?

a)

My cat is fatter than your cat

b)

My cat is the fattest cat I know

c)

My cat is lovely

d)

My cat eats more food than my dog

7.

Compound, complex, simple sentences can be defined as sentence types according to...

a)

meaning

b)

difficulty

c)

structure

d)

tense

8.

An interrogative sentence can be summed up as one that ...

a)

makes statements

b)

gives commands

c)

adds emphasis

d)

asks questions

9.

Compound sentences are joined by...

a)

verbs

b)

morphemes

c)

punctuation

d)

conjunctions

10.

A subordinate clause can be defined as

a)

a main clause

b)

a clause that is equally important to the main clause

c)

a clause that mean nothing on its own

d)

a clause that does as its told

11.

Which of the following is a subordinating conjunction?

a)

and

b)

but

c)

although

d)

so

12.

Identify the complex sentence:

a)

Even though she arrived late, she still enjoyed the concert.

b)

The bell rang and the lesson started.

c)

I run every day.

d)

You did what?

13.

What are the four sentence types according to meaning?

a)

simple, compound, complex, short

b)

noun, verb, adjective, adverb

c)

declarative, exclamatory, interrogative, imperative

d)

clause, conjunction, affix, morpheme

14.

Which of the following is NOT a compound sentence?

a)

I went for a walk, even though it was raining.

b)

They rushed to the hospital, but it was too late.

c)

I saw Joe yesterday but he didn't see me.

d)

She likes tea and I like coffee.

15.

Which of these sentences contains a superlative inflectional affix?

a)

The dog ran quickly.

b)

The bus arrived late.

c)

This quiz is harder than I thought!

d)

English is the best subject in the world.