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WorksheetsABCs of English quiz
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
How many letters are there in the English alphabet?
19
26
30
22
The English word "bacteria" is based on the word bakterion from which language?
Latin
Russian
German
Greek
What letter begins more English words than any other?
L
S
X
A
What letter does not appear in the English numbers 1 through 100?
i
o
a
e
Which of these is not a period of development of the English language?
Ancient Greek
Anglo-Saxon
Middle English
Modern English
Which of these was not a dialect of Old English?
Kentish
Northumbrian
Irish
Mercian
Which of these sounds does not come at the beginning of a word, in English?
cl
al
ng
ba
Which is the most common order of words in English?
object-verb-subject
verb-object-subject
subject-verb-object
subject-object-verb
Roughly what proportion of the world's population is fluent or competent in English?
one person in 1,000
one in a 100
one in 10
one in four
Which country contains the largest English-speaking population in the world?
England
United States
India
Australia
Which of the following is probably the most widely used English word throughout the world?
dollar
okay
Internet
movie
The English language is conventionally divided into three historical periods. In which of these periods did William Shakespeare write his plays?
Old English
Middle English
Modern English
