ENG501 Midterm Quiz 2 After Midterm

ENG501

Quiz 2

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Maha Malik History of English Language

ENG501_History of English Language · Quiz 2 · Maha Malik’s Compilation

1. In many varieties of English in the outer circle, there is no difference between .

(long and short vowels)

2. During the British colonial rule, Standard was the language of administration.

(British English)

3. According to 2001 census, English was recorded as the language most often spoken at home for of population. (8.2%)
4. In forwards, -wards is a suffix.

(Derivational

inflectional lexical none of the given options)

5. I used to stay out evenings. American English freely adds the suffix –s today to words like night, evening, etc. to form denoting repeated or customary action. (adverb)
6. The word ‘Kindergarten’ is added to the American vocabulary from language.

(German)

7. The words ending in unstressed –ile (e.g. fertile) are pronounced with in British English; some are pronounced with /ɪ/ in American English. (/aɪ/)
8. In American English both ‘got’ and ‘gotten’ serve as but ‘gotten’ is preferred.

(past participle)

9. Compared with English as spoken in , North American English is more homogeneous. (England)
10. ‘Midland’ and ‘New Orleans’ are examples of regional and local varieties of .
11. ‘Team’ means a group of . (athletes)
12. The term literally means “Frank language”. (lingua franca)
13. In American English, collective nouns are . (singular)
14. The word ‘Barbeque’ is added to the American vocabulary from language.

(Spanish)

15. A language does not achieve a genuinely status until it develops a special role that is recognized in every country. (Global)

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