ENG501 Final Term Past Papers

32 MCQs; 8 Questions of 3 Marks & 4 Questions of 5 Marks

Time Duration: 120 minutes.

1. FM (for frequency modulation)
2. AM (for amplitude modulation)
3. AIDS stands for Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
4. Introvert word represents

Philosophy society psychology

5. Larynx and pathos borrowed from...

Latin Greek

6. Photography invented in which the year of..

1883 1983

7. The number of...... reduced in creole..

Morpheme phoneme

8. Who was the writer of essay on criticism... (Pope echoed)
9. the word web itself come into existence in...... contributing to the revolutionary linguistic charas of the 1990 1991 1992
10. One of the striking things at the movement of the........ contributing to the vocabulary of English

expansion abridgmend stagnation

11. Indentify the origin of the word Vela..

French Swidish Latin Q. Pronunciation

One result of these inconsistencies is the prevalence of spelling pronunciations that have happened with universal education plus the wide dissemination of new words from books in printed form and this results in never heard/pronounced words in the home environment. Schedule began with /s-/, and was commonly spelt sedule or cedul; the spelling with sch dates from the mid-seventeenth century and has led to the presentpronunciations, /∫-/ and /sk-/.

Q. Late Modern Period

Perhaps the most important change has been the disappearance of /r/ before consonants and before a pause. Formerly, the /r/ was always pronounced in words like barn and person and father. Today, in England, /r/ is never pronounced in words like barn and personbut it is pronounced in words like father only if it occurs before a vowel (‘father and mother’).

Q. Chaucer short vowels a and u

If we compare Chaucer’s pronunciation of the short vowels with ours, we note only two changes of importance, those of aandu. In some cases this ME a represented an OE æ(at, apple, back), and the new pronunciation was therefore a return to approximately the form that the word had had in Old English. In Chaucer’s pronunciation these had still their so-called “continental” value—that is, a was pronounced like the a in father and not as in name. Also in Chaucer’s pronunciation e was either like the e in there or the a in mate, but not like the eei n meet.

Q. The Aim of the Grammarian?

To codify the principles of the language and reduce it to rule.

To settle disputedpoints of grammar n syntax and decide cases of divided usage

Point out common errors or what were supposed to be errors, and thus correct and improve the language.

All three of these aims were pursued concurrently

Aim of Academy to systematize the facts of English grammar and draw up rules by which all questions could be viewed and decided.

Q. " To be forms" (3)

It is impossible to follow the subject matter here in extensive details so only significant ones can be pointed out. One characteristic development in English grammar in the eighteenth century is regarding progressive verb forms.

Where French Says: je chante or German ich singe English may say: I sing, I do sing, or I am singing. Do-forms are emphatic forms. But their most important uses are in negative and interrogative sentences (I don’t sing, do you sing?). To be formsand the present participle are generally called progressive forms. Their most common use is to indicate an action as being in progress at the time implied by the auxiliary. The wide extension of the use of progressive forms is one of the most important developments of the English verb in the modern period. In Old English, such expressions as ‘he woes lærende’ (he was teaching) are occasionally found but usually in translations from Latin. In early Middle English, progressive forms are distinctly rare. Their number increases in the Middle English period and the credit of their development goes to the sixteenth century. The chief factor in their growth is the use of the participle as a noun governed by the preposition on (he burst out on laughing). This weakened to he burst out a-laughing and finally to he burst out laughing. In the same way he was on laughing became he was a-laughing and he was laughing. Today such forms are freely used in all tenses (is laughing, was laughing, will be laughing, etc.).

Q. Three AE ethnic & cultural varieties (3)

Chicano English Miami English Yeshiva English

Q. Lingual Franca effect on other language?

While ELF is a widespread and useful mode of communication for many, some scholars and linguists have criticized its proliferation as a form of linguistic imperialism. Speakers of ELF may eventually speak both their native language and English imperfectly leading to issues with effective communication. In spite of these criticisms, ELF continues to flourish in many countries, oftentimes enriching the language with colorful aphorisms and unique phrases.

Q. Three Old methods of word formation?

1. Coined
2. Borrowed
3. Blended

Q. Spread of Spanish in subcontinent?

Cosmopolitan tendency Spirit of exploration and adventure Interest in the New World

Q. Define the term conjugation

Conjugation is probably a direct importation from Latin (conjugation-em) since the more usual form in French was conjugation

Q. What is global world communication

Globalization It is inevitable that a language eventually comes to be used by more people than any other language. English has now reached this stage. Its first language speakers are above 400 million though estimates vary greatly because only a few countries keep statistics about numbers of speakers. Those who have learned it as a second language are also difficult to estimate, though approximately there are around 400 million such speakers. When the number of people who speak English as a foreign language is taken into account, again estimates are uncertain. Noone knows how many people are learning English in China. But the British Council has estimated that roughly a