ENG501 Midterm Quizzes by Alipur

1.

About which language, Sir William Jones, a British government official in India, does

observe that it is perfect, copious and exquisitely refined? (Sanskrit)

2.

In intonation how low or soft a word is spoken is called . (Stress)

3.

How many different languages are there in the world currently? (over six thousand)

4.

In intonation how or low a voice is when producing a sound is called . (pitch)

5.

Which of the languages survived currently in the language families? (Arabic)

6.

Which of the following option is NOT correct about English? (it is a common mother

tongue)

7.

Denotation is the part of . Choose one option (semantics)

8.

Who is the author of ‘General Prologue to Canterbury Tale’? (Geoffrey Chaucer)

9.

Which aspect is NOT the part of human language? (Ko Ko sound)

10.

The word “Kinda” is a non-standard form of . (Kind of)

11.

The Puritan Revolution overthrew the monarchy and established a military dictatorship.

Which period does come into your mind? (the Early Modern English period)

12.

Which feature of language has been discussed in the following statement?

Bees can pass on information about food sources but cannot tell about a food source they saw

last week. (Displacement) 13. What is the strength of people who speak English as a foreign

language in the world? (over 700 million)

14.

Select the Middle English Period from the following options? (1100-1500)

15.

Which of the following statement is NOT true?

o Language is a formal system of sign and symbols, such as calculus.

o Gestures and facial expressions are also a part of language.

o (Audible and meaningful sounds are produced the vocal

organs) o Human utterances are general and animal cries are specific.

16.

Which of the following is NOT true about language? (A language does exist as an

abstract entity)

17.

In intonation, the pauses or connections between words, phrases and sentences are called

choose an option. (Juncture)

18.

Which option is correct about “unhappy”? (Two morphemes)

19.

“It is to speak infinite utterances with new expressions and novel utterances.” Which

feature of language has been discussed in the given statement? (productivity)

20.

Which of the following words is similar to The Italian word “uomo”? (The Latin homo)

21.

Which of the following options is NOT correct about English? (It is a common mother

tongue)

22.

In linguistics, relationship between linguistic signs and objects in the world is described

as the principle of . (arbitrariness)

23.

The vocal sounds of Old English relate to early . (West Saxon)

24.

25.

The Wales belongs to . (Briton)

26.

27.

In Old English, thou and thee were pronouns. (singular)

28.

In Old English, the vowel of the tense often differs in the singular and plural. (past)

29.

Latin was the language of . choose the correct option (Romans) 30. Write the name

of the period from 450 to 1150. (Old English)

31. · 32. · 33. · gunpowder) · 34. · 35.

Which one is not the meaning of English word “wealh”? (Native)

36. · 37. · 38. · 39. Jutes · Saxons · Angles · 40.

The literature of the is the richest and the most significant of any preserved

literature among the early Germanic people. (Anglo-Saxons)

41.

In old English were a fertile resource in the word building and particularly a feature in

the formation of verbs. (Prefixes)

42. · 43. · 44. · 45.

The inflection of the in the Germanic languages is much simpler than it was in

Indo-European times. (Verb)

46.

47.

An important feature of the Germanic languages is declension. The weak declension is

used when the is preceded by article, demonstrative, or possessive pronoun.

(noun)

48.

The old English script normally uses consonant symbols.(sixteen)

49.

The inflection of the in the Germanic languages is much simpler than it was in

Indo-European times. (Verb)