MCQ Bank
Travellers may find that the British put more emphasis on ________ politeness than other cultures do.
- A) negative
- B) positive
- C) afflictive
- D) agentive
Politeness is not the same as _________, which is a polite form expressing distance from and respect for people of a higher status.
- A) preference
- B) deference
- C) inference
- D) coherence
There are __________ situational context factors that influence the way that we make a request.
- A) five
- B) seven
- C) two
- D) nine
The most direct approach, using imperative forms is known as _________.
- A) lull on record
- B) hush on record
- C) bald on record
- D) off on record
“Could you lend me a pen”? The given statement is an example of__________.
- A) neutral politeness
- B) positive politeness
- C) negative politeness
- D) All of the given options
Which of the following is the obligatory constituent to complete VP?
- A) Adjunct
- B) Indirect object
- C) All the given options
- D) Complement
Which of the following is an intransitive verb?
- A) Snore
- B) Pick
- C) Love
- D) Gave
The process of creating one lexeme from another is called ______.
- A) Inflection
- B) derivation
- C) borrowing
- D) splitting
Which of the following is the direct object in the given sentence?
Alia sold me her mobile.
- A) Alia
- B) me
- C) mobile
- D) her
Primary affixes in English are often of Latin-Romance origin, while secondary affixes are often of native ______ origin.
- A) French
- B) Spanish
- C) Germanic
- D) Latin
Which of the following is the determiner in the given sentence?
Would you like to have another glass of juice?
- A) of
- B) to
- C) another
- D) have
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 is a complementizer phrase?
- A) If she will come
- B) She will come
- C) I wonder
- D) I heard
The process of creating a new word by truncation of an existing one is known as ______.
- A) Blending
- B) Compounding
- C) Clipping
- D) Inflection
Which of the following phrases best defines the enclosed phrase?
'Ali' has broken the glass.
- A) Noun phrase
- B) Prepositional phrase
- C) Adjective phrase
- D) Adverb Phrase
______ deals with restrictions in a language on the permissible combinations of phonemes.
- A) Phonotactics
- B) Phonetics
- C) Morphophonetics
- D) Semantics
Which of the following phrases best defines the enclosed phrase?
The manager accepted the challenge 'very nicely'.
- A) Adverb Phrase
- B) Noun phrase
- C) Adjective phrase
- D) Prepositional phrase
Which of the following words is logically compositional?
- A) Behead
- B) Doghouse
- C) Scarecrow
- D) Befriend
Which of the following phrases best defines the enclosed phrase?
The Sun sets 'in the West'.
- A) Prepositional phrase
- B) Noun phrase
- C) Adjective phrase
- D) Adverb Phrase
Which of the following can be the subject of a sentence?
- A) Verb
- B) Noun
- C) Adverb
- D) Determiner