MCQ Bank
The process of creating one lexeme from another is called ______.
- A) inflection
- B) derivation
- C) borrowing
- D) splitting
Which of the following is a ditransitive verb?
- A) Snore
- B) Smile
- C) Laugh
- D) Gave
Which of the following linguists proposed that language is a system of signs?
- A) Ferdinand de Saussure
- B) Noam Chomsky
- C) David Crystal
- D) Peter Trudgill
Which of the following is the direct object in the given sentence?
Grandfather left Ali and Usman all his money.
- A) Grandfather
- B) Ali
- C) Money
- D) Usman
The phenomenon whereby a language becomes intolerant of useless elements and speakers reanalyze them as having a new role is called ______.
- A) linguistic exaptation
- B) language death
- C) language shift
- D) linguistic endangerment
Which of the following types of movement has been applied in the given example?
I will complete my task.
Will I complete my task?
- A) T-to-C movement
- B) V-to-T movement
- C) C-to-T movement
- D) Null movement
Which of the following is a function word?
- A) Bargain
- B) Was
- C) Sleep
- D) Girl
Which of the following is the indirect object in the given sentence?
Alia sold me her mobile.
- A) me
- B) mobile
- C) her
- D) Alia
Which of the following can be the subject of a sentence?
- A) Verb
- B) Noun
- C) Adverb
- D) Determiner
Which of the following is the complementizer in the given sentence?
I heard that those children want a puppy.
- A) that
- B) I
- C) a
- D) those
Items such as ‘the’ and ‘for’ which are phonologically dependent on adjacent words are called ______.
- A) clitics
- B) proclitics
- C) enclitics
- D) None of the given options
Which of the following words is a complementizer?
- A) Whether
- B) That
- C) All the given options
- D) If
The two basic approaches to morphological analysis are ‘analysis’ and ‘______’.
- A) synthesis
- B) application
- C) method
- D) reflection
Which of the following types of movement has been applied in the given example?
You will attend the party.
Will you attend the party?
- A) T-to-C movement
- B) C-to-T movement
- C) Null movement
- D) V-to-T movement
What is the origin of the word ‘morphology’?
- A) Greek
- B) Spanish
- C) French
- D) Russian
Which of the following is the determiner in the given sentence?
This book is very interesting.
- A) Is
- B) This
- C) Very
- D) Book
Which of the following phrases best defines the enclosed phrase?
She is the 'most ambitious' student in the first year.
- A) Noun phrase
- B) Adjective phrase
- C) Adverb Phrase
- D) Prepositional phrase
Which of the following is an independent clause?
- A) Although he worked hard.
- B) Which book I want to read next.
- C) Every night before I go to bed.
- D) I eat mangoes.
To what level does the tree diagram provide the analysis of a sentence?
- A) Phrase
- B) Clause
- C) Word
- D) Sentence
The sentences of a text follow each other in some -------- order.
- A) random
- B) logical
- C) illogical
- D) haphazard