In discourse, culture-specific rules and procedures of turn-taking provide ample breeding ground for _____________________.

• A) accepting
• B) misunderstanding
• C) questioning
• D) understanding

We do not have the ability to create complex discourse interpretations of fragmentary linguistic messages.

• A) Incorrect
• B) Correct
• C)
• D)

Your dog is lovely. Your dog is not lovely. The presupposition is you have a dog. This is called__________________ under Negation Test.

• A) constancy
• B) firmness
• C) None of the given options
• D) endurance

The basic time of temporal deixis in English language is in the choice of _________________ tense.

• A) noun
• B) reference
• C) verb
• D) pronoun

Anaphora can be defined as subsequent_________________ to an already introduced entity.

• A) reference
• B) antecedent
• C) None of the given options
• D) anaphora

Language teaching divides discourse into two major categories: _______________.

• A) reading and writing
• B) writing and speaking
• C) speaking and writing
• D) speaking and listening

When we understand the _________________ who communicates more than he says, we are actually undertaking what is known as discourse analysis.

• A) hearer
• B) speaker
• C) listener
• D) All of the given options

Presupposition concerns inferences related to the use of linguistic expressions but also affected by the________________ in which they are used.

• A) surface meaning
• B) context
• C) meaning
• D) None of the given options

The deep structure is a/an _________________ level of structural organization in which all the elements determining structural interpretation are represented.

• A) abstract
• B) concrete
• C) All of the given options
• D) numerical

The set of possible expressions in a given language may or may not be infinite, the actual set of all expressions ever uttered is going to be ___________________.

• A) infinite
• B) All of the given options
• C) finite
• D) expressions

One of the properties of generative grammar is that grammar has _______ number of rules but is capable of producing _________ number of sentences.

• A) finite, limited
• B) infinite, finite
• C) infinite, restricted
• D) finite, infinite

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

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

In English, a _____ phrase consists of a preposition and a noun phrase.

• A) adverbial
• B) noun
• C) verb
• D) prepositional

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

In Syntax, _________ grammar discusses rules which transform sentences from deep level to surface level.

• A) structural
• B) reference
• C) generative
• D) transformational

Phrases can also be structurally___________________.

• A) unambiguous
• B) ambiguous
• C) definite
• D) None of the given options

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 syntax, _____ are used to mark the constituents of a sentence.

• A) round brackets
• B) labeled brackets
• C) brackets
• D) angle brackets

In grammar, the nouns such as Mary and George are __________ nouns.

• A) concrete
• B) proper
• C) abstract
• D) common