MCQ Bank
Choose the word with two syllables.
- A) painted
- B)
- C)
- D)
A sentence has a noun phrase and a _____ phrase.
- A) adverb
- B) verb
- C) prepositional
- D) pronoun
Juncture, in linguistics, is the manner of moving (transition) or mode of relationship between two sounds.
- A) consecutive
- B)
- C)
- D)
Curly brackets in syntactic analysis indicate that only _________________ of the elements enclosed within the curly brackets must be selected.
- A) one
- B) two
- C) four
- D) three
The pronoun must be in comparative case after comparative adjective is the subject matter of .
- A) descriptivism
- B)
- C)
- D)
Every verb phrase is formed of a verb and ________ phrase.
- A) adverb
- B) noun
- C) interjection
- D) pronoun
Grate-ciel is an example of loan-translation or a direct translation of the elements of a word into the language.
- A) borrowing
- B)
- C)
- D)
Deep and surface structures are often used as terms in a simple_________________ opposition.
- A) exponential
- B) fraction
- C) lone
- D) binary
The branch of linguistics in which the technique of computer science are applied to the analysis and synthesis of language and speech is titled as linguistics.
- A) computational
- B)
- C)
- D)
In syntax, the most common way to create a visual representation of syntactic structure is _________ diagram.
- A) object
- B) tree
- C) syntactic
- D) class
The term �adjective� and �noun� are used to label forms in the language as the or parts of speech.
- A) word classes
- B)
- C)
- D)
The word ‘syntax’ literally means ‘putting together’ or _________.
- A) commotion
- B) arrangement
- C) chaos
- D) derangement
The word �transformation� is a/an .
- A) noun
- B)
- C)
- D)
In the sentence ‘Mary put out the fire.’, particle movement is __________.
- A) obligatory
- B) essential
- C) optional
- D) mandatory
Instrumental phonetics is a approach.
- A) quantitative
- B)
- C)
- D)
In English _________ is the form of a verb in which we add ‘to’ with the basic form of verb.
- A) infinitive
- B) present indefinite
- C) present perfect
- D) present participle
Old is an adjective and older is a/an .
- A) adjective
- B)
- C)
- D)
The grammar must be capable of showing how a single underlying abstract representation can become different __________________ structures.
- A) deep
- B) Both deep and surface structure
- C) cavernous
- D) surface
The language studies involving two or more distinct academic disciplines are named as studies.
- A) interdisciplinary
- B)
- C)
- D)
In grammar, a phrase or a clause that violates some grammar rule of a particular language is called a/an _______ phrase or clause.
- A) ill-formed
- B) well-formed
- C) unformed
- D) well-structured