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    Linguistics Test One

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    This document contains a quiz assessing knowledge of parts of speech, morphology, grammatical categories, and the difference between standard and non-standard English. It includes multiple choice and short answer questions testing definitions of count nouns, collective nouns, parts of speech, morphological structures like affixes and stems, and grammatical functions of words in sentences. It concludes with an essay question explaining why using prescriptive rules for standard English and descriptive rules for non-standard English is an oversimplification.

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    Linguistics Test One

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    Part I: General Knowledge 1. Which of the following is a count noun? a. rice b. moonpies c. milk d. all of the above 2.

    Which person nearly destroyed the English language? a. Alfred the Great b. William the Conqueror c. Shakespeare d. Beowolf Which of the following are all features of noun and which are features of verbs? (Circle Noun or Verb for each of the following features: noun noun noun noun noun noun noun noun noun noun or verb or verb or verb or verb or verb or verb or verb or verb or verb or verb 3. 4. voice aspect

    5. definiteness 6. gender 7. number 8. mood 9. person 10. tense 11. transitivity 12. case 26pts

    13. Which of the following is a collective noun? e. team f. aristocracy g. committee h. all of the above

    14. In which sentence is to behaving like a preposition? a. I drove them to crave grammar. b. I drove them to the grammar book. c. I wanted them to like the grammar book. d. I thought they would want me to be smart. 15. Which of the following shows is an example of existential there (meaning it does NOT have an anaphor)? a. b. c. d. There are two basketball players from ODU in the class. I want to go there for school. There, on the lawn, was my notebook. Nobody goes there anymore.

    16. Which of the following pronouns ALL show nominative case? a. he, they, she b. I, him, them c. me, she, us d. me, him, them 17. We know that Portuguese speakers can usually understand Spanish, but that Spanish speakers cannot usually understand Portuguese. Therefore we say that these languages show: a. multidirectional intelligibility b. mutual intelligibility c. unidirectional intelligibility d. all of the above 18. Who brought the languages to Great Britain that would become English: a. the Normans b. the Simpsons c. the sociolinguists d. the Anglos and the Saxons

    For each of the following categories (15-19), tell whether they would be modified by either an adjective OR an adverb (by circling EITHER adjective or adverb). adjective adjective adjective adjective adjective or adverb or adverb or adverb or adverb or adverb 19. nouns 20. adjectives 21. adverbs 22. verbs 23. adjectives

    24. Which of the following is a monotransitive sentence? a. That was the day. b. The plane crashed c. It was bring us the music. d. The music died. 25. Which of the following is an intransitive sentence sentence? e. Jaclyn gave them homework. f. Sadie liked the homework. g. The homework worked! h. Sadie aced the test. Name four types of affixes: 26. ____________________ 27. ____________________ 28. ____________________ 29.____________________ 30. Which of the following best describes the relationship between sound (form) and meaning (function) in language. a. the relationship is arbitrary b. the relationship is natural 31. Which of the following are all determiners? a. Chads, Nicks, these, that, an b. Quantifiers, adverbs, adjectives, nouns c. to be, Nicks, favorite, teacher d. function words, grammatical words, morphemes 30 pts

    Part II: Morphology 1. Which of the following is a possible structure for the word happily? a. b.

    happ

    -i-

    ly

    happ

    -i-

    ly

    e. BOTH f. NEITHER 2. In the word happily, which of the following is a STEM? a. Happ b. i c. ly d. none 3. In the word happily, which of the following is a BOUND morpheme? a. i b. ly c. both d. none 4. In the word happily, which of the following is an FREE morpheme? a. i b. ly c. both d. none 5. In the word happily, which of the following is a DERIVATIONAL morpheme? a. i b. ly c. both d. none

    Part III: Grammatical Categories Consider the following sentence when answering the questions below: Cleeping students complain, and they will come to fear tlipper and the gostak.. 1. What part of speech is tlipper?
    a. b. c. d. noun verb adjective determiner

    2. What evidence do you have for your answer to #1?

    3. What part of speech is gostak?


    a. b. c. d. noun verb adjective determiner

    4. What evidence do you have for your answer to #3?

    5. What part of speech is come?


    e. f. g. h. noun verb adjective determiner

    6. What evidence do you have for your answer to #5?

    7. What part of speech is cleeping?


    i. j. k. l. noun verb adjective determiner

    8. What evidence do you have for your answer to #7?

    Part V: Mini-Essay Directions: This is not a formal essay. (You are not being grade on form.) Please use complete sentences. Please use examples to illustrate your points. Question: In this class, you have learned about standard English and non-standard English. You have also learned about prescriptive rules and descriptive rules. At this stage in the semester, many students are tempted to say that prescriptive rules are used for standard English and descriptive rules are used for nonstandard English. Why is this NOT accurate?

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