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ELT REVIEW EXAM

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A system of structurally related elements for the coding of meaning.

a)

Structuralist

b)

Cognitivist

c)

Functionalist

2.

Language is a _____ or _____ set of sentences.

a)

Finite and Infinite

b)

Structuralist and Cognitivist

c)

Universal and Dynamic

d)

Arbitary and Creative

3.

Language structures by appealing to general psychological processes of cognition

a)

Cognitivist

b)

Functionalist

c)

Structioralist

4.

Language structures by appealing to the communicative function of those structures and emphasizes the meaning and functions rather than structure.

a)

Structuralist

b)

Functionalist

c)

Cognitivist

5.

Language is primarily made up of vocal sounds produced by the speech apparatus in the human body. It is closer to speech than writing.

a)

Vocal

b)

Creative

c)

Arbitary

d)

Universal

6.

"I'm breaking up with you."

a)

Commissives

b)

Declarations

c)

Representatives

d)

Expressives

7.

Language is defined based on three major perspectives.

a)

Structuralist, Cognitivist, and Functionalist

b)

Quality, Quantity, and Manner

c)

Creative, Universal, and Dynamic

d)

Referential, Emotive, and Conative

8.

Words and their meanings have no inherent correspondence. The assignment of form and meaning is largely, but not necessarily, random.

a)

Arbitary

b)

System of Systems

c)

Means of Communication

d)

Dynamic

9.

Sounds, words, and phrases are arranged in systematic order to form meaningful units.

a)

Means of Communication

b)

System of Sytems

c)

Arbitary

d)

Vocal

10.

All languages share key features. Language parameters and principles are considered universal.

a)

Dynamic

b)

Universal

c)

Means of Communication

d)

Arbitary

11.

Concerns the CONTEXT of the language. It focused on the description or contextual information of utterances.

a)

Referential Function

b)

Illocutionary Act

c)

Emotive Function

d)

Locutionary Act

12.

Its primary purpose is to attract/establish, prolong, check, confirm, or discontinue the “contact” between the interlocutors.

a)

Conative

b)

Phatic

c)

Referential

d)

Metalinguistics

13.

It concerns with the MESSAGE and how it is delivered or deals with the beauty and creativity in linguistic expressions.

a)

Emotive

b)

Poetic or Aesthetics

c)

Referential

d)

Conative

14.

Identify which is a linguistic

a)

Linguists study languages analytically and methodically with the aim to understand their levels

b)

Linguistics is simply the scientific study of language

c)

Linguistics describes the structure of language, explains the common mistakes and errors, explains how these mistakes and errors eventually become acceptable

d)

Linguistics is not concerned with evaluating language in use. Linguistics do not create an analytical theory for the study of literature

15.

"I'm so sorry, but I don't feel the same way you do."

a)

Directives

b)

Expressives

c)

Declarations

d)

Representatives

16.

Identify which is not a linguistics

a)

Linguistics is simply the scientific study of language.

b)

Linguistics aims to understand how the language faculty of the mind works and to describe how language itself works.

c)

Linguists observe patterns within a language and across languages to try to understand what principles drive our production of language.

d)

Linguistics describes the structure of language, explains the common mistakes and errors, explains how these mistakes and errors eventually become acceptable.

17.

Identify which is a linguistics

a)

Linguists study languages analytically and methodically with the aim to understand their levels, not to learn to speak them.

b)

Linguistics aims to understand how the language faculty of the mind works and to describe how language itself works.

c)

Linguistics is not to be viewed as a study of history associated with languages.

d)

Linguistics describe the facts of utterances, not the aesthetic and moral values.

18.

Which of these does not EXPLAIN what linguistics is all about?

a)

• Comparative Philology

• The learning of many languages or Polyglotism

• Literary Criticism

• Traditional Study of Grammar

b)

• Referential Function

• Conative Function

• Metalinguistics Function

c)

• To compare

• Critics

• Grammar

19.

It focuses on the significance and interpretation of language within (semantics) and outside (pragmatics) its structure.

a)

Theoretical Linguistics

b)

Microlinguistics

c)

Macrolinguistics

d)

Applied Linguistics

20.

It describe language by systematically recording and analyzing the endlessly changing ways people speak and write.

a)

Metalinguistics

b)

Descriptive Linguistics

c)

Applied Linguistics

d)

MicroLinguistics

21.

It deals with the analysis of specific linguistic data such as sounds, words, and structures.

a)

Macrolinguistics

b)

Microlinguistics

c)

Theoretical Linguistics

d)

Prescriptive Linguistics

22.

It concerns with how language should be used.

a)

Applied Linguistics

b)

Prescriptive Linguistics

c)

Descriptive Linguistics

d)

Theoretical Linguistics

23.

It's a branch of linguistics that deals with the study of the use of the language in context.

a)

Syntax

b)

Pragmatics

c)

Semantics

d)

Microlinguistics

24.

Conversation should be relevant.

a)

Quantity

b)

Relation

c)

Manner

d)

Quality

25.

It pointed out that out that an utterance can imply a proposition that is not part of the utterance and does not follow as a necessary consequence of the utterance.

a)

Speech Acts

b)

Implicature

c)

Cooperative Principle

d)

Flouting

26.

Mae: ‘’Would you like to go to my party tonight?‘’

   James: Well, tonight is actually my brother’s birthday.

a)

Maxim of Manner

b)

Implicature

c)

Maxim of Quality

d)

Maxim of Quantity

27.

Jen: I really like studying math.

Gel: I like to sleep in math classes.

a)

Maxim of Quality

b)

Maxim of Manner

c)

Maxim of Relation

d)

Implicature

28.

Conversation should be informative.

a)

Relation

b)

Quantity

c)

Quality

d)

Manner

29.

Conversation should be true.

a)

Quantity

b)

Quality

c)

Manner

d)

Relation

30.

It's a system of symbols that functions as means of human communication.

a)

Language

b)

Nature of Language

c)

Linguistics

d)

Structuralist Perspective

31.

Conversation should be clear.

a)

Relation

b)

Manner

c)

Quality

d)

Quantity

32.

It's used to describe the intentional violation of a maxim for a purpose of conveying an unstated proposition.

a)

Cooperative Principle

b)

Flouting

c)

Quality

d)

Implicature

33.

Christian Jay: Have you eaten?

Michelle: Yes, I just had adobo for lunch. How about you, have you eaten?

a)

Relation

b)

Quantity

c)

Quality

d)

Manner

34.

Kenna: How much do you earn?

Kent: Well, I earn enough to get by.

a)

Relation

b)

Quality

c)

Quantity

d)

Manner

35.

Christian Jay: I drove my car and went to Baguio from Davao yesterday, and I got home early in the morning.

Marlon: Wow, really? Then, I rode my bike and went to Mexico last week.

a)

Manner

b)

Quality

c)

Quantity

d)

Relation

36.

It concerns with CODE or terms used to refer to language features or elements.

a)

Emotive

b)

Metalinguistics

c)

Conative

d)

Poetic or Aesthetics

37.

“I expect your contributions to be genuine and not spurious. If I need sugar as an ingredient in the cake you are assisting me to make, I do not expect you to hand me salt; if I need a spoon, I do not expect a trick spoon made of rubber.”

a)

Relation

b)

Quality

c)

Quantity

d)

Manner

38.

“Keep walking straight until you reach the intersection, and then turn right.”

a)

Relation

b)

Quantity

c)

Quality

d)

Manner

39.

When a maxim is violated...

a)

we interpret what we hear as if it conforms to these maxims.

b)

we draw inferences which makes the utterance conform to these maxims

c)

describe the intentional violation of a maxim for a purpose of conveying an unstated proposition.

40.

Waitress: How would you like your steak to be cooked ma’am?

Daryl: I want it Medium rare.

a)

Relation

b)

Manner

c)

Quality

d)

Quantity

41.

“I expect a partner’s contribution to be appropriate to the immediate needs at each stage of the transaction. If I am mixing ingredients for a cake, I do not expect to be handed a good book, or even an oven cloth."

a)

Relation

b)

Quantity

c)

Manner

d)

Quality

42.

Kendra: What do you think about James?

Jane: Well, I think his apartment is nice.

a)

Relation

b)

Quality

c)

Manner

d)

Quantity

43.

A linguistic principle which states that interlocutors cooperate as they converse.

a)

Speech Acts

b)

Cooperative Principle

c)

Semantics

d)

Metalinguistics

44.

Erjon: What do you think of this restaurant?

Mae: Very fancy.

a)

Relation

b)

Manner

c)

Quality

d)

Quantity

45.

The act of simply uttering a meaningful sentence.

a)

Perlocutionary Act

b)

Illocutionary Act

c)

Locutionary Act

46.

What the speaker DOES in uttering a sentence.

a)

Locutionary

b)

Illocutionary

c)

Perlocutionary

47.

The act is an action or state of mind brought about by, or as a consequence of, saying something.

a)

Illocutionary

b)

Locutionary

c)

Perlocutionary

48.

"It's very cold inside"

a)

Locutionary

b)

Illocutionary

c)

Perlocutionary

49.

Stewie: What do you like about it specifically?! Pick something or I'll blow your brains out!

Peter: I like... how it looks like an owl.

a)

Perlocutionary

b)

Illocutionary

c)

Locutionary

d)

Directives

50.

"I was born a Filipino, I will live as a Filipino, I will die as a Filipino."

a)

Locutionary

b)

Perlocutionary

c)

Illocutionary

51.

Commit the speaker (in varying degrees) to something's being the case, to the truth of the expressed proposition.

a)

Commissives

b)

Representatives

c)

Expressives

d)

Declarations

52.

The speaker to get the hearer to do something.

a)

Representatives

b)

Directives

c)

Commissives

d)

Expressives

53.

To commit the speaker to do something in the future.

a)

Expressives

b)

Commissives

c)

Representatives

d)

Directives

54.

To express the psychological state of the speaker.

a)

Representatives

b)

Expressives

c)

Directives

d)

Declarations

55.

This act brings about the correspondence between the propositional content and reality.

a)

Commissives

b)

Declarations

c)

Representatives

d)

Directives

56.

Marlon: Mae is very pretty. I think I have a crush on her.

Jay: But I don’t think you have a chance because she is very studious too.

Marlon: It’s okay. Look! Mae’s best friend is pretty too.

a)

Declarations

b)

Directives

c)

Representatives

d)

Commissives

57.

"He was a psychopath"

a)

Expressives

b)

Representatives

c)

Declarations

d)

Directives

58.

"Do you have any spare change, sir?"

a)

Expressives

b)

Directives

c)

Representatives

d)

Declarations

59.

"Let's play Valorant after the exams are over."

a)

Declarations

b)

Commissives

c)

Directives

d)

Expressives

60.

Marlon: Can you please grab my Aquaflask in my room Mae?

a)

Quantity

b)

Quality

c)

Manner

d)

Relation