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ENGL 312 Midterm Jeopardy Game

Linguistic Facts of Life

Question:
  1. Which of the following is a descriptive rule?

    a. In Standard English, always make your adjectives agree with nouns in number and gender
    b. Never end sentences with a preposition
    c. In English, avoid split infinitives
    d. In African American Vernacular English (AAVE), use AUX 'be' for habitual aspect
    e. In Standard English, always use 'whom' after a verb.

 


Answer:

d. In African American Vernacular English (AAVE), use AUX 'be' for habitual aspect



Question: Linguists formulate descriptive rules in order to:
a. prescribe what speakers SHOULD do with L
b. standardize L structures in writing
c. document what speakers DO do with L
d. provide a basis for correct L use
e. ensure that speakers of mutually intelligible Ls speak the same way

Answer: c. document what speakers DO do with L

Question:

The Principle of Linguistic Subordination would predict
a. Ls spoken in developing countries will have an extensive national literature
b. A speaker of Appalachian English will, on average, earn more per year than a speaker of Standard English
c. Double negatives will be stigmatized in English, but not French or Russian
d. Speakers of Standard English are taught in school to code-switch to Latino English
e. MS Word will soon have a grammar checker function for Jamaican Creole English but not Russian


Answer:

c. Double negatives will be stigmatized in English, but not French or Russian



Question:

Which is true of L change?
a. Standardization attempts to slow it
b. The newer a language is, the less it changes
c. Males lead L change
d. r-lessness is a growing L change in the Southern U.S.
e. Other Ls that have contact with English do NOTinfluence how it changes.


Answer:

a. Standardization attempts to slow it



Question:

In African American English, completitive done signals
a. aspect marking which signals a habitually occuring event

b. tense marking which locates the event in the past

c. aspect marking which signals an event is 'cut off' and finished

d. tense marking which locates an event in the present.
 


Answer:

c. aspect marking which signals an event is 'cut off' and finished



Nouns

Question:

Which of the following is an abstract noun?
a. shoes
b. ice
c. paint
d. liberty
e. book


Answer:

d. liberty



Question:

Which of the following are reflected in English orthography?
a. abstract nouns
b. concrete nouns
c. pronouns
d. proper nouns
e. none of the above


Answer:

d. proper nouns



Question:

These nouns can occur with words that express QUANTITIES (a/an, another, both, each, every, many...):
a. pronouns
b. countable nouns
c. uncountable nouns
d. a. and b.
e. none of the above


Answer:

b. countable nouns



Question:

MASS NOUNS can't be pluralized, EXCEPT for:
a. concrete nouns
b. abstract nouns
c. proper nouns
d. countable nouns
e. common nouns


Answer:

c. proper nouns



Question:

Which of the following is NOT an inflectional affix?
a. 3rd. sg. -s
b. Plural -s
c. past tense -ed
d. nominalizer -ment
e. all of the above


Answer:

d. nominalizer -ment



NPs

Question: These are marked by 's:
a. proper nouns
b. concrete nouns
c. possessive nouns
d. inflected nouns
e. derived nouns

Answer: c. possessive nouns

Question: Numerals are:
a. definite
b. indefinite
c. proximal
d. distal
e. none of the above

Answer: b. indefinite

Question: Which of the following is NOT a determiner?
a. pronouns
b. indefinite articles
c. definite articles
d. demonstrative articles
e. possessive determiners

Answer: a. pronouns

Question: Determiners can express
a. definiteness
b. number
c. proximity
d. distance
e. all of the above

Answer: e. all of the above

Question:

Which of the following is a TRUE statement?
a. Numerals always precede DET
b. Partitive NPs never include numerals or quantifiers
c. The possessive affix occurs on the entire NP
d. The plural affix occurs on every element of the NP (e.g. N, Det, any adjectives, etc.)
e. All of the above


Answer:

c. The possessive affix occurs on the entire NP



Verbs

Question:

Which of the following is a modal?

a. have

b. be

c. can

d. swim


Answer:

c. can

 



Question:

Every clause must have at least one
a. main verb
b. modal
c. AUX verb
d. infinitive
e. None of the above


Answer:

a. main verb



Question:

We build main verbs through
a. derivation
b. affixation
c. conversion
d. none of the above
e. all of the above


Answer:

e. all of the above



Question: English past tense can be formed through:
a. regular inflection
b. irregular inflection
c. vowel mutation
d. suppletion
e. all of the above

Answer: e. all of the above

Question: Copula deletion occurs more often:
a. with pronouns than with full NPs
b. with past tense than present tense
c. after a C than after a V
d. with plural nouns more than singular nouns
e. none of the above

Answer: a. with pronouns than with full NPs

Verbs, cont.

Question:

These show up after modals as well as certain verb of perception, causation, or permission:

a. participles
b. present tense verbs
c. bare infinitives
d. derivational inflections
e. auxiliary verbs


Answer:

c. bare infinitives



Question:

Aspect tells:
a. WHEN the verb occurs
b. HOW the verb occurs
c. WITH WHOM the verb occurs
d. at what level the verb occurs
e. none of the above


Answer:

b. HOW the verb occurs



Question:

The order of verbs in a verb string is
a. (modal) (AUX be) (AUX have) (main verb)
b. (modal) (AUX have) (AUX be) (main verb)
c. (AUX be) (AUX have) (main verb) (modal)
d.  (main verb) (modal) (AUX have) (AUX be)


Answer:

(modal) (AUX have) (AUX be) (main verb)



Question:

These help express future tense in English:
a. copula
b. semi-modals
c. modals
d. aspect
e. passives


Answer:

c. modals



Question:

Which sentence contains 2 AUXs?

a. I might could go to the store
b. She has been studying all night
c. He hit the ball
d. She is studying tonight
e. All of the above


Answer:

b. She has been studying all night