Worksheets5230_Week 5_Communicative Competence Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
1. “She was going to the store and buys some milk.”
What is the main grammatical issue?
A. Subject–verb agreement error
B. Tense shift
C. Word order violation
D. Article omission
2. “He made a very success presentation.”
What is the nature of the lexical error?
A. Misused affixation
B. Incorrect comparative form
C. Word form error
D. Collocational mismatch
3. The cat chased the mouse quickly down street.”
Which linguistic issue is present?
A. Prepositional misuse
B. Word class confusion
C. Article omission
D. Redundant adverbial placement
4. You are writing to your course instructor. Read the message below:
"Hi! Can you send me the slides ASAP? I was totally lost in class today."
What is the main issue in this message?
A. Illocutionary act misclassification
B. Failure to maintain form-function alignment
C. Register mismatch and stylistic inappropriateness
D. Overuse of hedging and modal verbs
5.“You are wrong. That’s not how we do it.”
Which pragmatic issue is present?
A. Failure to use a hedging device
B. Incorrect turn-taking strategy
C. Overuse of indirectness
D. Ellipsis of politeness marker
6.“You must explain it again. I didn’t understand anything you said.”
What pragmatic issue is involved when a learner says the following to their teacher?
A. Misuse of performative verbs
B. Pragmatic transfer and sociopragmatic failure
C. Overuse of indirectness in institutional discourse
D. Discourse cohesion error due to substitution failure
7. "Give me your notes after class. I missed the lecture.”
What is the main problem with this request?
A. The illocutionary force is unclear
B. The speech act is performed too directly for the context
C. The request uses an inappropriate deixis
D. The performative verb is misused
8. Sorry, what does ‘sustainable’ mean?”
What strategy is being used here?
A. Appeal for assistance
B. Clarification request
C. Confirmation check
D. Turn filler
9. “That’s an interesting idea, but it won’t work in our school.”
What is the speech act and the politeness strategy used?
A. Indirect refusal with negative politeness
B. Complaint with hedging
C. Directive with face-threatening act
D. Indirect request with overgeneralization
10. “I lost the thing you write with — it’s like a pencil but with ink.”
Which communication strategy is being used?
A. Approximation
B. Repetition
C. Circumlocution
D. Code-switching
11. In the exchange below, what strategic move is missing?
A: “So, the whole system collapsed.”
B: “…” (no response)
A. Turn-holding strategy
B. Discourse marker for hesitation
C. Request for clarification
D. Backchannel signal
12. Learner A: “I was researching fossil fuels.”
Learner B: “Fossil fuels?”
Which interactional strategy is used by Learner B?
A. Clarification request
B. Repetition as turn-taking
C. Topic shift
D. Discourse marker for hesitation
13. “Anna met with Sara after class. She was very excited to share the news.”
What is the discourse issue?
A. Unclear deixis
B. Inappropriate substitution
C. Ambiguous anaphoric reference
D. Redundant pronominal reference
14. “The lecture was hard to follow. Therefore, I didn’t attend the next one.”
Which cohesive device problem is present?
A. Inappropriate logical connector
B. Incorrect referent
C. Verb tense shift
D. Incomplete ellipsis
15. “Although he’s already graduated, now he’s applying to college.”
Which discourse-level issue is evident here?
A. Temporal deixis mismatch
B. Cataphoric reference failure
C. Faulty conjunction pairing
D. Ellipsis of subject pronoun
