MCQ Bank
------------- elements have come via Modern Latin into English language.
- A) Latin
- B) Swedish
- C) French
- D) Greek
Write the acronym ‘VCR’ with full form.
- A) Voluntary Challenge and Registry
- B) Voluntary Compliance Resolution
- C) Videocassette Recorder
- D) Visual Control Room
A formal “Proposal for the Publication of a New English Dictionary by the Philological Society” was issued in ------------ .
- A) 1858
- B) 1857
- C) 1850
- D) 1855
The word slang does not occur in -------- Dictionary.
- A) American
- B) Webster
- C) Johnson’s
- D) Oxford
Which field does the word “dynamo” belong to?
- A) Electricity
- B) Biology
- C) Histology
- D) Chemistry
Pidgins and Creoles are based on many different languages, including --------------.
- A) Italian, French, Greek and Japanese
- B) Persion, French, English and Japanese
- C) Swahili, Arabic, Malay and Japanese
- D) Latin, Greek, Spanish and Japanese
Pidgin and creole languages are spoken by more than ---------- million people throughout the world.
- A) Thirteen
- B) Seven
- C) Eleven
- D) Nine
Choose the acronym ‘DVD’with full form.
- A) Direct Virus Device
- B) Digital Video Disc
- C) Dynamic Voltage Drop
- D) Drugs and Vice Division
Differences of nature and material civilization, and contact with some foreign tongue, are clearly reflected in the ---------------.
- A) pronunciation
- B) vocabulary
- C) key words
- D) origin of words
Identify the origin of the word “Acne”.
- A) French
- B) Greek
- C) Swedish
- D) Latin
Pidgin is a/an -------------------- language.
- A) candid
- B) obsolete
- C) ambiguous
- D) auxiliary
The earliest evidence of human presence in --------- is dated at 10,500 BC.
- A) Netherlands
- B) Cambodia
- C) Thailand
- D) Ireland
Choose the correct option. Renaissance is a period of ___________.
- A) willingness
- B) all the given options
- C) enthusiasm
- D) eagerness
What is a non-literary language? Choose the correct option.
- A) Poetic language
- B) Language of prose
- C) Business language
- D) Language of novels
Write the source language/s of the words, “alligator, apricot, corral, hammock, and maize.” Choose the correct option.
- A) Latin
- B) French
- C) Spanish & Portuguese
- D) Italian
Fairclough (1993) defines CDA as discourse analysis which aims to explore often opaque relationships of ___________________ and determination.
- A) outgrowth
- B) consequence
- C) finale
- D) causality
We assume he or she is intending to be clear. According to Paul Grice, it is a maxim of _________________.
- A) None of the given options
- B) quantity
- C) relevance
- D) quality
In linguistics, the of language does not change but the lexical items are inclined to change.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)
A deictic expression is a word or phrase (such as this, that, these, those, now, then) that points to the time, place, or situation in which a speaker is__________________.
- A) verbalizing
- B) All of the given options
- C) speaking
- D) articulating
Primitive words could have been of the natural sounds.
- A)
- B)
- C)
- D)