MCQ Bank
In morphology, a minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function is called a .
- A) morpheme
- B)
- C)
- D)
The rules that relate the spoken form of sentence to their underlying meaning are called ___________ rules.
- A) transformational
- B) phrase structure
- C) sentence structure
- D) recursive
In morphology, phone is actual realization of the phonemes and morphs are actual forms to realize .
- A) morphemes
- B)
- C)
- D)
According to _________ approach of grammar, a sentence is considered grammatical if a native speaker produces that in speaking.
- A) descriptive
- B) Both prescriptive and traditional
- C) prescriptive
- D) traditional
If the second syllable is strong, it is stressed in such as arrive or apply.
- A) Verbs
- B)
- C)
- D)
In English, a _____ phrase consists of a preposition and a noun phrase.
- A) adverbial
- B) noun
- C) verb
- D) prepositional
English is a language.
- A) stress timed
- B)
- C)
- D)
In syntax, a __________ diagram is a static representation of the structure of the sentence shown at the bottom of the diagram.
- A) tree
- B) component
- C) class
- D) object
Segment or forms that cannot normally stand alone and are typically attached to another from are called Morphemes.
- A) Bound
- B)
- C)
- D)
In Syntax, _________ grammar discusses rules which transform sentences from deep level to surface level.
- A) structural
- B) reference
- C) generative
- D) transformational
Phonology is the study of the sound system of languages. It studies how sounds categories are manipulated in the processing of language.
- A) abstract
- B)
- C)
- D)
Phrases can also be structurally___________________.
- A) unambiguous
- B) ambiguous
- C) definite
- D) None of the given options
Closed classes of words take no affixes in English.
- A) inflectional
- B)
- C)
- D)
The symbol “( )” used in syntactic description of a sentence indicate _________________ elements in a sentence.
- A) optional
- B) neutral
- C) compulsory
- D) None of the given options
In phonology, a minimum syllable is a syllable which has no onset and no .
- A) coda
- B)
- C)
- D)
In syntax, _____ are used to mark the constituents of a sentence.
- A) round brackets
- B) labeled brackets
- C) brackets
- D) angle brackets
Affixes added to the end of a word are called .
- A) suffixes
- B)
- C)
- D)
In grammar, the nouns such as Mary and George are __________ nouns.
- A) concrete
- B) proper
- C) abstract
- D) common
The truth of a proposition is determined by sense reference to experience.
- A) common
- B)
- C)
- D)
The sentence ‘John believed that Cathy knew that Mary helped George.’ is tediously ___________.
- A) tough
- B) difficult
- C) large
- D) recursive