SPICE Introduction To Linguistic

Introduction to Linguistics
1. Which among the following dimensions can the vowels in English be classified?
a. The part of the tongue that is raised
b. The height to which the tongue is raised
c. The position of the lips
d. All the above.
2. When can you say that the language is dead?

a. when a particular language is no longer known
b. when only few knows that language
c. when a language exists but not used anymore
d. when that language is likely to become extinct
3. Which lexical relation is used in these examples: Sea-see; Buoy-boy; Sun-son?

a. Homonyms
b. Polysemy
c. Homophones
d. Collocation
4. Which of the following is the BEST definition of morphology?

a. The study of the rules governing word formation.
b. The study of the rules governing the sounds that form words.
c. The study of the rules governing sentence formation.
d. The study of the prescribe words to be used in English Language
5. In the sentence "I saw the car with Patrick.” The sentence is said to be ______________.
a. semantically incorrect
b. syntactically ambiguous
c. structurally ambiguous
d. structurally incorrect
6. Which of the following sentences shows split infinitive?

a. I will buy a bread to eat.
b. Ana wanted to dance like Cinderella.
c. Kent want to privately message her mom.
d. Victor brings home the bacon.
7. Among the following are examples of elision EXCEPT?

a. 'I don't know' - /I duno/
b. Lovely- / love-ly /
c. Camera- /kamra/
d. Sandwhich - / sanwhich /
8. The children practice their speaking through what they hear from the adults. What
component of language is being conveyed in the situation?
a. Syntax
b. Phonology
c. Pragmatics
d. Semantics
9. You left me, so I find a new one. The given sentence is an example of ___.
a. Simple sentence
b. Compound sentence
c. Complex sentence
d. Compound-complex sentence
10. Which of the following is NOT characteristic of language?

a. Language is arbitrary.
b. Language is dynamic.
c. Language is ambiguous.
d. Language is a system of systems.
11. Which is NOT the reason why language growth and decline?
a. It changes as time does
b. Changing societal needs
c. Erosion of old customs
d. There’s a call for elegance
12. Which of the following pair is an example of homonym?

a. Be-bee
b. See-see
c. Sea-sea
d. cut-cat
13. Chair and for butter - bread, for needle - thread, and for salt – pepper” are examples of
which lexical relations?
a. Prototypes
b. Collocation
c. Hyponymy
d. Metonymy
14. Which of the following best describes complex sentences?

a. It is an independent sentence
b. Consists of one independent clause with one or more dependent clauses.
c. It has two dependent sentences
d. Clauses are joined by coordinating conjunction
15. He is leaving on Tuesday. From the given sentence, which of the following could be the
best description for the underline group of words?
a. Prepositional Phrase as post dependents of non- finite verb
b. Prepositional Phrase as predependents of finite verb.
c. Prepositional Phrase as post dependents of finite verb.
d. Prepositional Phrase as predependents of non- finite verb.
16. Ashley masters the language of her Italian father as well as the language of her visayan
Filipino mother. What term in linguistic does she possess?
a. Flexibility
b. Bilingualism
c. Linguistically inclined
d. Comparative Philology
17. In the sentence Him and me, we are neighbors would be considered ungrammatical
because it violates which grammar rule/s?
a. an.object forms of pronouns "him and me" should not be used in the sentence-initial or
subject-noun position, and,
b. Both statement a and b are correct.
c. only one noun or noun phrase can play the role of the sentence subject, and in this case,
"we" (Greenbaum, 1996).
d. None of the above
18. Among the following sentences, which one is said to be semantically correct?
a. The hamburger ate the man.
b. my cat studied linguistics.
c. A table was listening to some music.
d. The man hit the dog with an umbrella.
19. Linguists want to study the patterns of speech in an isolated rural community using a
descriptive approach. Which of the following will be their aim?
a. Telling the local people how to correct their grammar to make it fit with established
grammar guidelines.
b. Changing the rules of grammar to include the way that the people of this community speak
in everyday life.
c. None of the answers is correct.
d. Listening and learning about how the community uses language and then describing this in
their research.
20. “er, em, you know” are examples of _________________.

a. hedges
b. filled pauses
c. Implicatures
d. Discourse
21. Which of the following is true about compound sentences?

a. It is an independent clause.
b. Clauses are joined by coordinating conjunction
c. It consists of two dependent clauses
d. Consists of one independent clause with one or more dependent clauses.
22. At noon she arrived. From the given sentence, which of the following could be the best
description for the underline group of words?
a. Prepositional Phrase as post dependents of non-finite verb
b. Prepositional Phrase as predependents of finite verb
c. Prepositional Phrase as post dependents of finite verb
d. Prepositional Phrase as predependents of non-finite verb
23. In the sentence 'I took my big brown cat to the vet yesterday', which of the following does
not appear?
a. Adjective
b. Conjunction
c. Preposition
d. Adverb
24. Which of the following best describes morpheme?

a. Group of words
b. Can be a free morpheme or bound morpheme
c. Smallest syntactical and meaningful linguistic unit that contains a word.
d. Study of the form of words
25. Which of these statements is NOT true about universal language?

a. no language or variety of language is superior to any other in linguistic sense
b. not all grammar contains rules for the formation of words and sentences of a similar kind
c. all language are equally complex and equally capable of expressing any idea
d. no grammar is either inferior or superior to any other language
26. Which is an accurate statement about prescriptive and descriptive approaches to

grammar?
a. Both prescriptive and descriptive grammar have their own role and value related to the
understanding of language.
b. Prescriptive grammar has value while descriptive grammar does not.
c. Descriptive grammar has value while prescriptive grammar does not.
d. Prescriptive grammar emphasizes how people speak the way they do, while descriptive
grammar emphasizes how they should speak.
27. Which of the following is an example of a compound sentence?

a. Love is blind and unconditional
b. Joana is ready since the beginning of the program.
c. Mario hates the book so he intended not to bring it every day since first day of the class.
d. Moana is dead but her legacy remains.
28. While the words canary, dove, duck, flamingo, parrot, pelican, robin, swallow and thrush
are all equally co-hyponyms of the superordinate bird, they are not all considered to be
equally good exemplars of the category 'bird'. This is an example of which lexical relation?
a. Prototypes
b. Hyponymy
c. Polysemy
d. Collocation
29. Words such as ‘UNESCO’ and ‘RADAR’ are instances of?

a. Acronym
b. Compounding
c. Reduplicates
d. Conversion

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2. When can you say that the language is dead?

3. Which lexical relation is used in these examples: Sea-see; Buoy-boy; Sun-son?

4. Which of the following is the BEST definition of morphology?

6. Which of the following sentences shows split infinitive?

7. Among the following are examples of elision EXCEPT?

10. Which of the following is NOT characteristic of language?

12. Which of the following pair is an example of homonym?

14. Which of the following best describes complex sentences?

20. “er, em, you know” are examples of _________________.

21. Which of the following is true about compound sentences?

24. Which of the following best describes morpheme?

25. Which of these statements is NOT true about universal language?

26. Which is an accurate statement about prescriptive and descriptive approaches to

27. Which of the following is an example of a compound sentence?

29. Words such as ‘UNESCO’ and ‘RADAR’ are instances of?

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