MCQ Bank
How many determiners are there in the given sentence?
A woman was lifted to safety by a helicopter.
- A) 1
- B) 2
- C) 3
- D) None
According to English morphology, the word ‘fish’ will take ______ morpheme when it becomes plural.
- A) -s
- B) -es
- C) -ies
- D) none
Which of the following types of movement has been applied in the given example?
I will join the session.
Will I join the session?
- A) Null movement
- B) V-to-T movement
- C) C-to-T movement
- D) T-to-C movement
The smallest linguistic unit with a grammatical function is known as a/an ______.
- A) morpheme
- B) grapheme
- C) phoneme
- D) lexeme
Which of the following is a monotransitive verb?
- A) Eat
- B) Give
- C) Snore
- D) Laugh
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