MCQ Bank
Mark Antony’s “This was the most unkindest cut of all” is an instance of ______________.
Choose the correct option.
- A) double comparative
- B) wrong adjective
- C) article problem
- D) dangling modifier
When was the book “The New World of English Words” published?
- A) 1600
- B) 1550
- C) 1700
- D) 1658
About which language, Sir William Jones, a British government official in India, does observe that it perfect, copious and exquisitely refined?
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- B)
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- D)
What is the meaning of the word “fastidious” in the present age?
- A) Distasteful
- B) Proud
- C) Disgusting
- D) Fussy
Which of the following is not true about language?
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
What is a non-literary language?
Choose the correct option.
- A) Business language
- B) Poetic language
- C) Language of prose
- D) Language of novels
Which speech is not the part of human language?
- A)
- B)
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- D)
What is the one word solution for “all manner of learning” for Sir Thomas Elyot?
Choose the best option.
- A) Encyclopedia
- B) Dictionary
- C) Science
- D) Circle of doctrine
“It is to speak infinite utterances with new expressions and novel utterances.” Which feature of language has been discussed in the given statement?
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- D)
In recent times, even when the vowel has been restored in standard speech, the weakened form is generally apparent in __________ speech and in the dialects.
- A) informal
- B) all the given options
- C) semiformal
- D) formal
Who is the author of ‘General Prologue to Canterbury Tales’?
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In the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, ________ standard was accepted and people were sticking to it.
- A) Leeds
- B) London
- C) Liverpool
- D) Manchester
‘Thy’ is the equivalent form of in modern English.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
Self-consciousness about language in Renaissance had two aspects: individual & _________.
- A) institutional
- B) public
- C) private
- D) commercial
How many different languages are there in the world currently?
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In the course of developmnet of English language, the change in sound that 'u' underwent is known as ___________.
- A) deletion
- B) omitting
- C) rounding
- D) unrounding
The study of a language at a given point in time is called linguistics.
- A)
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- D)
The invention of __________ about the middle of the fifteenth century exercised a far reaching influence on all the vernacular languages of Europe.
- A) internet
- B) laser
- C) printing
- D) computers
There are approximately speech sounds in English.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
Which language did become famous for philosophy in the Renaissance period?
- A) Greek
- B) English
- C) German
- D) French