MCQ Bank
In tradition grammar, a is a category of words have similar grammatical properties.
- A) Part of speech
- B)
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Recursive rules have the capacity to repeat or generate the of a sentence more than once.
- A) structure
- B)
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Except only in certain educational contexts, modern linguists utterly rejects .
- A) prescriptivism
- B)
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The word �syntax� literally means �putting together� or .
- A) arrangement
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In Latin, each of the verb forms of different, according to the categories of person and .
- A) number
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In phonology, no word ends with more than consonants.
- A) four
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Lexical morphemes are class words.
- A) open
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Which of the given words is pronounced as a single word?
- A) NASA
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One of the properties of generative grammar is that grammar has number of rules but is capable of producing number of sentences.
- A) finite, infinite
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The most important practical issue that deals with is the learning of second or foreign languages.
- A) applied linguistics
- B)
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Linguistics can be defined as the study of language.
- A) scientific
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In morphology, the difference between dog and dogs is that of form.
- A) lexeme
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The study of language in general is often referred to as .
- A) linguistics
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Which of the following branches of linguistics discusses the way in which language is represented and processed in the brain?
- A) psycholinguistics
- B)
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The branch of linguistics named is mainly concerned with the analysis of the distribution patterns and spatial structures of languages in contact.
- A) geographical linguistics
- B)
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In linguistics, is the set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language?
- A) grammar
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A simple way to understand both phonetics and phonology is that phonetics is considered the physics of sound, and phonology is considered the of sound.
- A) psychology
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According to approach of grammar, a sentence is considered grammatical if a native speaker produces that in speaking.
- A) descriptive
- B)
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In English morphology, fast-food comes under the heading of compounding and comes under the heading of blending. Smaze smog smurk all of the given
- A) N/A
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A group of different morphs, all version of one are called allomorphs.
- A) morpheme
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- D)