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English & Grammar

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which term refers to the arrangement of phrases and clauses within a sentence?

a)

grammar

b)

semantics

c)

morphemes

d)

syntax

2.

What is the study of language and culture called?

a)

Syntactic Structure

b)

Ethnolinguistics

c)

Psycholinguistics

d)

Historical Linguistics

3.

Which is the plural of vertebra?

a)

vertebrates

b)

vertebrae

c)

vertebraces

d)

few

4.

What is the smallest grammatical unit of speech?

a)

Phonetics

b)

Word

c)

Morpheme

d)

Form

5.

What is a word or a group of words that is self-contradicting called?

a)

Oxymoron

b)

Antithesis

c)

Litotes

d)

Synecdoche

6.

What is the plural of bacteria?

a)

bacterias

b)

bacterial

c)

bacteri

d)

bacterium

7.

Which language analysis recognizes the relationship among the various elements of a sentence?

a)

Generative grammar

b)

Prescriptive grammar

c)

Transformational grammar

d)

Descriptive grammar

8.

How many types of affixes are there?

a)

3

b)

5

c)

7

d)

8

9.

In grammar, what is the name of a word that adds meaning to the basic meaning of the main verb?

a)

Intransitive verb

b)

Auxiliary verb

c)

Transitive verb

d)

Stative verb

10.

What word describes the formation of a word by changing the base or by adding a prefix or a suffix?

a)

Inflection

b)

Exposition

c)

Harangue

d)

Derivation