ENG509 Final Term Past Paper

Except these, the remaining MCQ were from file.

1. speakers often reduce redundancy by leaving out superfluous information.
2. Superfluous information which can easily be recovered from the situation or the context.
3. Decoding and vocabulary development are pivotal to developing strong reading skills.
4. Morphology is a critical element of successful vocabulary development and accurate decoding.
5. Language acquisition program provides children with a genetically transmitted algorithm for developing a grammar, on the basis of their linguistic experience.
6. The structural organization of texts is different from that of sentences.
7. As a rule, verbs express activities of some kind.
8. Myself pronoun is a reflexive pronoun.

Q9. From the beginning of time, it has been accepted (that men who are on duty during the night will be tempted to sleep. What is the subject in given sentence?

1. It
2. Men. (chatgpt ans.)
3. The night
4. Who

Q10. Normally, Wh- question formation involves (a)wh-movement (b) SAI, with or without----?

1. IT-support
2. There- support
3. Wh-support
4. Do support. (chatgpt ans.)

Q11. ‘one evening he asked her whether he might go home with her?’

1. Direct question
2. Indirect. (chatgpt ans.)
3. Rhetoric
4. Tag question

Q12. NPs (noun phrase in the following sentence is)? The Tramp read the diary.

1. Tamp, diary
2. The tramp read
3. Read the diary
4. The tramp, the diary. (chatgpt ans.)
5. ‘There were three shops in village’. There is at the subject position in sentence.
6. In the given sentence which is patient? “I watched the movie.”

Q15. The red leaf is ----- phrase.

1. Determiner
2. Noun. (chatgpt ans.)
3. Adverb
4. adjective

Q16. In the following phrase, what is compliment of preposition ‘in’? “ [VP [v brought] [?pp in the times] ]”

1. Brought
2. The
3. The times. (chatgpt ans.)
4. Times

Q17. In the following phrase, ‘in’ is somehow part of the----itself. [VP [v brought in] [NP the times]]”

1. Preposition
2. Article
3. Verb. (chatgpt ans.)
4. Noun

Q18. Ali gave his mother a present. What is the direct object in sentence?

1. Ali
2. Present.
3. Mother
4. Gave

Correct answer: Present.

Q19. Which option will be used in given sentence to form its negative form.

1. V-TO-T movement
2. T-TO-C movement
3. Do support. (chatgpt ans.)
4. Auxiliary raising

Q20. Ali hit the ball. Which option will be used in given sentence to form its interrogative form.

1. V-TO-T movement
2. T-TO-C movement