Master Morphology and Syntax: Enhance Your English Language Skills

Question 1

Which of the following is not a grammatical category that nouns possess?

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Tense

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Number

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Gender

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Case

Question 2

Identify the sentence that correctly employs the modal auxiliary 'can'.

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He can swim very swiftly.

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Can he swim very swiftly?

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He can to swim very swiftly.

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He can swiming very swiftly.

Question 3

Identify the correct derivation of the word 'unbreakable'.

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un- + break + -able

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un- + break + -ed

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un- + brake + -able

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un- + broke + -able

Question 4

Which of the following sentences is grammatically correct?

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The students were very excited.

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The students was very excited.

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The students are very excited.

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The students is very exited.

Question 5

Identify the syntactic function of 'very' in the sentence: 'It was a very cold day.'

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Adverb

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Adjective

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Noun

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Preposition

Question 6

Identify the correct past tense form of the verb 'run'.

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Ran

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Runned

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Ranned

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Run

Question 7

Identify the subordinating conjunction in the sentence: 'I will finish the task before the deadline'.

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before

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the

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task

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deadline

Question 8

Identify the part of speech of the underlined word in the sentence: 'The car sped past me at top speed.'

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Adverb

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Noun

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Verb

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Adjective

Question 9

Which of the following syntactic structures represents a prepositional phrase?

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Det + N + PP

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NP + VP

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S + VP

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Adv + Adj

Question 10

Identify the headword of the following noun phrase: 'the elderly gentleman with a walking stick'

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gentleman

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elderly

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with

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stick

Question 11

Which of the following is a morphological process that changes a word's form to indicate a grammatical function?

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Inflection

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Derivation

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Compounding

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Conversion

Question 12

Identify the type of verb phrase in the following sentence: 'She has always been working hard on the project.'

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Perfect continuous verb phrase

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Simple verb phrase

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Continuous verb phrase

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Perfect verb phrase

Question 13

In the sentence 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog', which word is a verb?

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Verb

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Noun

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Adverb

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Adjective

Question 14

Which of the following sentences demonstrates the passive voice construction?

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The cat was chased by the dog.

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The dog chased the cat.

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The dog and the cat played.

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The cat was playing with the mouse.

Question 15

In the sentence 'I gave the book to him', what grammatical function does the underlined word 'him' have?

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Indirect Object

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Subject

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Object

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Complement

Question 16

Which characteristic defines derivational morphology?

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Changes the meaning and part of speech of a word

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Adds inflectional endings

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Marks grammatical information

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Is always productive

Question 17

Which term describes the study of the rules governing how words combine to form sentences?

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Syntax

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Morphology

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Semantics

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Pragmatics

Question 18

In the sentence 'The book on the table is mine', what syntactic relationship exists between 'book' and 'on the table'?

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Noun-Prepositional Phrase

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Subject-Verb

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Verb-Object

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Noun-Adjective

Question 19

Select the option that is NOT a recognized word formation process:

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Sentence inversion

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Affixation

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Compounding

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Reduplication

Question 20

In the sentence "The energetic puppy chased the ball", determine the grammatical category of the underlined word:

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Adjective

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Noun

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Verb

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Preposition

Question 21

Identify the syntactically correct sentence among the options:

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My peers and I went to the concert.

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Myself and my peers went to the concert.

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My peers and me went to the concert.

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I and my peers went to the concert.

Question 22

In the sentence "The teacher explained the concept thoroughly", specify the syntactic function of the underlined word:

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Complement

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Subject

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Object

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Modifier

Question 23

Identify the prefix with a negative connotation:

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Un-

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Re-

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Pre-

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In-

Question 24

Identify the correct term for a word that combines two roots into one:

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Compound

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Root

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Infix

Question 25

Which syntactic category describes a word that modifies a noun or pronoun:

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Adjective

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Verb

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Adverb

Question 26

Identify the type of clause that performs the function of a noun:

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Noun clause

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Main clause

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Relative clause

Question 27

Which of the following sentence structures represents an inverted subject-verb order?

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Verb - Subject - Object

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Object - Subject - Verb

Question 28

Identify the term for a sentence that expresses a command or request:

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Imperative sentence

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Declarative sentence

Question 29

Which of the following is a feature of active voice?

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Subject performs the action

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Subject receives the action

Question 30

Identify the term for a group of words that form a meaningful unit and function as a single syntactic constituent:

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Phrase

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Clause

Question 31

Identify the term for a word that replaces a noun or noun phrase:

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Pronoun

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Determinant

Question 32

Which of the following is NOT a grammatical category that can be applied to nouns?

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Adjectival

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Number

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Gender

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Case

Question 33

Identify the correct syntactic structure of the sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.'

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Subject-Verb-Object

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Subject-Verb-Object-Complement

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Subject-Complement-Verb-Object

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Verb-Subject-Object-Complement

Question 34

Which of the following is an example of a derivational affix?

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-ment

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-ly

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-s

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-ed

Question 35

Identify the type of subordinate clause in the sentence: 'Although it was raining, we decided to go for a walk.'

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Adverbial clause of concession

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Adjective clause

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Noun clause

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Adverbial clause of reason

Question 36

Which of the following is a characteristic of Standard English?

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Has a wide geographical distribution

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Uses non-standard grammar

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Is spoken by a small number of people

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Is used in informal settings

Question 37

Identify the function of the modal auxiliary in the sentence: 'You should study harder if you want to pass the exam.'

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To express advice

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To indicate ability

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To show permission

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To express necessity

Question 38

Which of the following is an example of a prepositional phrase?

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On the table

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The quick brown fox

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He is running

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Very quickly

Question 39

Identify the headword in the noun phrase: 'the beautiful red flower'

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flower

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beautiful

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red

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the

Question 40

Which of the following is a type of morpheme that carries grammatical information?

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Inflectional morpheme

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Free morpheme

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Derivational morpheme

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Bound morpheme

Question 41

Identify the sentence pattern of 'The students organized the bookshelves efficiently.'

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Subject-Verb-Object-Adverb

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Subject-Verb-Object-Complement

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Subject-Verb-Indirect Object-Direct Object

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Subject-Verb-Adjective-Noun

Question 42

What is the morphological process by which a new word is formed by adding a bound morpheme to a free morpheme?

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Derivation

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Inflection

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Compounding

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Clipping

Question 43

What is the purpose of a prepositional phrase?

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To connect a noun or pronoun to another word in the sentence

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To modify a noun or pronoun

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To introduce a clause

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To indicate the tense of a verb

Question 44

What is the minimal unit of meaning in a language?

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Morpheme

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Word

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Phrase

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Clause

Question 45

Which of the following terms describes a word formed by adding an affix to a root word?

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Derived word

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Inflected word

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Compound word

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Clitic

Question 46

What grammatical category denotes the function of a word within a sentence?

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Part of speech

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Noun

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Verb

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Clause

Question 47

What is the term for a word that changes its form based on its grammatical function?

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Inflected word

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Irregular verb

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Regular verb

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Modal auxiliary

Question 48

Which type of ambiguity arises due to alternative interpretations of sentence structure?

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Structural ambiguity

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Lexical ambiguity

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Semantic ambiguity

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Pragmatic ambiguity

Question 49

What is the process of assigning grammatical roles to words in a sentence called?

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Parsing

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Tagging

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Lemmatization

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Stemming