CONTINUATION INTRO TO LINGUISTICS

29. The belief that the structure of a language

influences how its speakers perceive the world
around them is referred to as:
A: Critical Period Hypothesis
B. Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
C. linguistic determinism
D. language instinct
30. Based on this conversation, what type of
language disorder does the patient suffer from?
Doctor: What have you been doing last weekend?
Patient: Me go, er uh. Vacation. Before hospital
come back. Tw, two times. Swim, swim in... in
Le.. er. .. lake family. Very, very happy!
A. Broca's Aphasia
B. Klinefelter syndrome
C. Specific Language Impairment
D. Wernicke's Aphasia
31. Based on this conversation, what type of
language disorder does the patient suffer from?
Doctor: What was your previous job before having
this language disorder?
Patient: Me? Hmm. Well, I was a tree guard in the
provinces. I work with the governful of this
country. I survey green schremper to preserve the
cenfoy's forest.
A. Broca's Aphasia
B. Klinefelter syndrome
C. Specific Language Impairment
D. Wernicke's Aphasia
32. In the Indian movie "Every Child is Special",
the main character Ishaan Awashti finds it difficult
to read because he finds that the letters are
dancing. Which of the following language disorder
was he suffering from?
A. Aphasia
C. Dyslexia
B. Anomia
D. Dysgraphia
33. It is the procedure in which one hemisphere of
the brain is surgically removed to treat otherwise
intractable cases of epilepsy.
A. Hysterectomy
C. Neuroendoscopy
B. Hemispherectomy
D. Craniotomy
34. Which of the following are language disorders
is genetically acquired?
A. Broca's Aphasia
B. Acquired Dyslexics
C. Speeific Language Impairment
D. Wernicke's Aphasia
35. Which of the following theories support the
situation of Genie who was able to learn a large
vocabulary as well as abstract and concrete terms
but was unable to fully develop her grammatical
skills due to being reared in an environment of
extreme social isolation within her birth to middle
childhood.
A Critical Period Hypothesis
B Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
C. linguistic determinism
D. language instinct
36. This theory suggests language formed from
imitation of sounds which formed into words.
a. Bow-wow theory
c. Ding-dong theory
b. Yo-he-ho theory
d. Gesture theory
37. This theory claims language, words, and
individual sounds are connected through nature,
such as applying certain sounds more frequently to
particular phenomena.
A. Bow-wow theory
C. Ding-dong theory
B. Sing-song theory
D. Gesture theory

38. This theory believes that language was

developed from spontaneous sounds like "Ouch!"
or "Ha! te
A. Bow-wow theory
B. Yo-he-ho theory
C. Ding-dong theory
D. Pooh-pooh theory
39 This theory claims language came from the
sounds we made while doing hard work.
A. Bow-wow theory
B. Yo-he-ho theory
C. Ding-dong theory
D. Pooh-pooh theory
40. This theory takes the view that gesture
language preceded speech.
a. Bow-wow theory
b. Sing-song theory
C. Ding-dong theory
D. Gesture theory
41. In this scenario, when different objects flew
by, making a caw-caw or coo-coo sound, the early
human tried to imitate the sounds and then used
them to refer to those objects even when they
weren't present. What theory of origin of human
language is described?
a. Bow-wow theory
b. Biblical theory
c. Ding-dong theory
d. Gesture theory
42. This theory suggested that the language comes
out of play, laughter, cooing, courtship, emotional
mutterings and the like.
A. theory
B. Sing-song theory
C. Ding-dong theory
d. Gesture theory
43 What is the basic idea behind the "bow-wow"
theory of language origin?
A. Primitive words could have been imitations of
the natural sounds that early humans heard around
them and all modern languages have words that
are onomatopoeic
b. Language began as rhythmic chants, perhaps
ultimately from the grunts of heavy work.
c. Speech arose through people making instinctive
sounds, caused by pain, anger, or other emotions.
d. God provides language to human.
44. [Follow] the Pagsanjan Falls Trail, and climb
310 meters up the rocky slope of the Laguna
Maountains.
Identify what parts of speech is the word in the
sentence. (Words inside the bracket)
a. Adjective
c. verb
b. Conjunction
d. Adverb
45. [Oops) spilled some coffee while walking.
Identify what parts of speech is the word in the
sentence. (Words inside the bracket)
a. Noun
C. Verb
B. Adjective
D. Interjection
46. Playing badminton with [you] has become my
favorite summer activity.
Identify what parts of speech is the word in the
sentence. (Word/s inside the bracket)
a. Noun
c. Adverb
b. Pronoun
d. Preposition
47. Identify the noun phrase in the sentence The
white dress looks very elegant on her.
a. very elegant
c. The white dress
b. white dress
d. on her
48. Daniel has been free headaches since last
week.
a. from
c. of
b. for
49. It contains at least two independent clauses.
a. Simple Sentence
c. Complex Sentence
b. Compound Sentence
d. Compound-Complex Sentence
50. Identify the independent clause/s in the
sentence.
Although Angelica likes to sleep, she still finished
her assignments while doing household chores.
a. she still finished her assignments
b. she still finished her assignments while doing
household chores
c. Although Angelica likes to sleep
d. while doing household chores.
51 We were answering our English exam when the
bell rang so suddenly.
A. Complex Sentence
c. Compound Sentence
b. Simple Sentence
d. Compound-Complex Sentence
52 Our new classmate has a sister in G-11 and a
brother in G-9.
a. Compound-Complex Sentence
c. Compound Sentence
b. Complex Sentence
d. Simple Sentence
53 Car gerunds become subject in the sentence?
a. Yes
b. no

54. Finishing the book, Gerald looked happy.

a. Participle
c. Infinitives
b. Gerund
55 *The dancing student looks so cute. *
Does the sentence contain gerund?
a. Yes
b. No
56. To dance, to walk, to cry, to smile are
examples of infinitives.
a. True
b. False
57. What are the three verbal forms?
a. Gerund, Independent, and Participle
b. Noun, Verb, and Adjective
C. Infinitives, Participle, Gerund
58. An infinitive can act as.
a. Noun, adjective, preposition
c. Adjective, verb, noun
b. Noun, Adverb, Adjective
d. Adverb, adjective, conjunction
59. Winding through the mountains, the car
hugged the road.
The underlined portion modifies a.
a. Car
b. Road
c. hugged
d. Nothing
60. Many girls love to go shopping.
The underlined portion is what kind of verbal?
a. Infinitives
c. Participle
b. Gerund
61. The boys, frightened by the huge dog, slowly
backed away. The underlined portion is what kind
of verbal?
a. participial phrase
c. infinitive phrase
b. gerund phrase
62. To see their improvement at the end is a
huge reward. The underlined portion is an
infinitive phrase.
How is it functioning in the sentence?
a. Noun
c. adiective
b. Adverb
63. The boy crossed the street quickly to catch his
bus. The underlined portion is an infinitive phrase.
What is its function?
a. Adjective
c. Adverb
b Noun
64. Its a verbal that acts as adjective in the
sentence.
а. Gerund
c. Infinitive
Participle
65 the dancing parrots entertained the people in
the park earlier.
a. Gerund
c. Infinitive
b. Participial
66. Find a phrase beginning with to that is used as
an infinitive phrase.
a. Get your tickets to the show.
b. you want to wait in the mall?
c. Some boys were taken to the hospitals.
d. None of the flowers sent to the market arrived.
67 The direct definition of the word that you find
in the dictionary.
a. Denotation
c. synonymy
b. Connotation
d. antonymy
68. It is a set of words that has contrasting or
opposite meanings.
a. Synonymy
c. antonymy
b. Polvsemy
d. homophone
69. set of words that has the same or nearly the
same meaning in some or all senses.
a. Homophone
c. Polysemy
b. Antonymv
d. Synonymy
70. It refers to a single form of word with two
meanings, however, the two meanings are entirely
unrelated.
a. Polysemy
c Homophony
b. Connotation
d. Denotation
71. It has two or more related meanings, however,
these two meanings must be related in some way,
and hot be two completely unrelated meanings of
the word.
a. Homophony
c. Connotation
b. Polysemy
d. Antonymy
72. head (Upper part of human body) - Head
(highest position in an organization)
a. Polvsemy
c. antonymy
b. Homophony
d. synonymy
73. is the study of how meaning is constructed,
interpreted, clarified, and obscured,
a. Pragmatics
c. Semantics
b. Syntax
d. Phonetics
74.Which of the following pair of words are
synonyms?
a. would-wood
c. quickly-slowly
b. yell-shout
d. bit-beat
75. a basic noun phrase consists. The girl anna
dances Gracefully.
a. noun
c. noun and determiner
b. determiner, adjective, and noun
d. either noun and determiner or noun only
76. What is the phrase structure of the constituent
"the big box of crayons"?
a. noun phrase
c. adjective phrase
b. determiner phrase
d. prepositional phrase
77.The word " his" in the phrase "his yellow
binder" is labelled as:
a. pronoun
b. masculine
c determiner
d. article
78. What is the constituent label for "very yellow"
in the phrase "the very yellow book"?
a. adjective phrase
b. adverb phrase
c. adverbial
d. adjective
79. What is the phrase structure rule for "very
quickly"?
a. ÄdvP » (AdvP) Adj
c. AdvP (Adv} - > Adv
b. AdvP -> (Adv) AdvP
d. AdvP (AdvP) ->Adv
80. It is the word that gives the phrase its category.
-a. head
b. modifier
c. constituent
d. adjunct
81.Which of the following sentences contain an
adverb phrase?
a. Ignacious is friendly.
c. Agnacious left quickly.
b. Henry kissed his mother-in-law.
D. Henry went to the store.
82. What is/are the noun phrase/s in the sentence "I
spared the students any embarrassment
yesterday."?
A. the students
b. any embarrassment
c. both A and B
D. only
83. That, if, and for are called
a. complement
C. relative clause
b. complementizer
D. Subordinator
84. Identify the verb phrase structure rule in this
sentence, "The police examined the old
photograph in the stone house.
a. VP V- (NP, AP) - (PP)
c. VP V - (NP, AP) - (NP)
b. VP V-(NP,PP)-(AP)
d. VP V - (AP, AP) - (PP)
85. What is the verb phrase structure rule applied
in this sentence, Chris hit the ball?
a. V- NP-PP
c. V-PP
b. V-NP
d. V-AP-PP
86. He drove the car into the tree. The verb phrase
structure rule in this sentence is _
a. V- NP-PP
c. V-PP
b. V-NP
d. V-AP-PP
87. My boss was very happy with her decision.
The verb phrase structure rule in this sentence is
__
a. V- NP-PP
c. V-PP
b. V-NP
d. V-AP-PP
88.1t can have two or more possible meanings due
to polysemous or homophonous words.
a. Structural Ambiguity
c. Lexical Ambiguity
b. Semantics
d. Connotation
89. It can have two or more possible meanings due
to the words it contains being able to be combined
in different ways which create different meanings.
A. Structural Ambiguity
c. semantics
B. Lexical Ambiguity
d. Linguistics
90. 1t refers to two or more words that often go
together.
A. Idioms
c. Denotation
b. Collocations
d. Synonymy
91. Which of the following is an example of
adiective+noun?
a. greatly admire
c. regular exercise
b. ceasefire agreement
d. wave cheerfully
92, Which of the following is noun+ noun
collocation?
a. whispered softly
c. fully aware
d. filled with horror
B. bars of soap
93. Make money* is a collocation with what
combination?
c. adverb+adjective
A. verb+noun
b. verb+adverb
d. noun+verb
94. Fill in the correct collocation.
These posters are distributed in order to promote
and------awareness about health concerns in
these time of pandemic.
c. make
a. Donate
B. raise
95. Which of the following is an example
adjective+ noun?
A. burst into tears
c. get a life
d. absolutely delighted
B. heavy traffic
96. Vaguely familiar* is an example of collocation
with what combination?
A. adverb+ adjective
c. noun+ noun
B. verb+adverb
d. verb-+-noun
97. Drawing on my fine command of the English
language, I said nothing. (Robert Benchley)
Select the verbal in this sentence.
A. Drawing-gerund
B. fine command - participial
C. nothing-gerund
98. This maxim states to minimizing cost to other
and maximizing benefit to other and is applied in
Searle's speech act, commissives and directives
called by Leech as impositives.
A. Tact maxim
b. Generosity maxim
c. Approbation maxim
d. Modesty maxim
99. In this maxim, the participants must minimize
praise of self and maximize dispraise of self. This
maxim is applied in assertives/ representatives and
expressives.
A. Tact maxim
b. Generosity maxim
c. Approbation maxim
d. Modesty maxim
100. This maxim states to minimizing benefit to
self and maximizing cost to self and occurs in
commissives and directives / impositives. This
maxim is centered to self.
A. Tact maxim
b. Generosity maxim
c. Approbation maxim
d. Modesty maxim
101. This maxim requires to minimizing dispraise
of other and maximizing praise of other. This
maxim instructs to avoid saying unpleasant things
about others and especially about the hearer. This
maxim occurs in assertives/ representatives and
expressives.
A. Tact maxim
b. Generosity maxim
c. Approbation maxim
d. Modesty maxim
102 In this maxim, there is tendency to maximize
agreement between self and other people and
minimize disagreement between self and other.
The disagreement, in this maxim, usually is
expressed by regret or partial agreement and this
maxim oscurs in assertives/ representatives
illocutionary act.
a. Tact maxim
b. Generosity maxim
C. Agreement maxim
& Modesty maxim
103 This is what the hearer's reaction to speaker's
message.
A. Perlocution
b. Illocution
C. Locution
d. positive politeness
104 This is an act of simply uttering the sentence
and the linguistic properties of the utterance or
statement.
a. Perlocutionary
b. Illocutionary
c. Locutionary
d. positive politeness
105 This type of utterance used to describe some
state of affairs. This could be in the form of -
stating, confessing, concluding, asserting,
admitting, predicting, denying, and notifying.
a. Directive
b. Representative
C. Question
d. Commissive
106 This is an utterance used to commit the
speaker to do something in the future.
A. Directive
b. Representative
c. Question
d. Commissive
107 This is used to try to get the hearer to do
something. This could be in the form of
requesting, warning, insisting, ordering, advising,
recommending, forbidding and suggesting.
a. Directive
b. Representative
c. Question
d. Commissive
108 This is an utterance used to express the
emotional state of the speaker such as apologizing,
thanking, congratulating, condoling, welcoming,
and objecting.
a: Directive
b. Representative
C. Expressive
d. Commissive
109 This is an utterance used to change the status
of some entity such as appointing, naming,
resigning, baptizing, surrendering,
excommunicating, and arresting
A. Directive
b. Representative
c. Expressive
d. Declaration
110 It is the desire to be valued and included by
relevant or significant others.
A. positive face
b. negative face
c. face threat
d. face loss
111 It is the desire to be free from imposition and
restraint and to have control of our time, property,
space, and resources.
a. positive face
B. negative face
c. face threat
d. face loss
112. Who is the theorist of politeness theory which
tackles about the concept of face?
a. Robin Lakoff
b. Charles Grice
C. Brown and Levinson
d. Richard Leech
113. What maxims being violated in this
conversation: I ask, Do you love me? And you
answer Yes (supposing you don't really).
a. quality
b. quantity
c. manner
d. realation
114 A colleague asks, How is the job search
going? and I respond, Sorry, that's confidential.
a. quality
b. quantity
c. manner
d.relation
115 The concept of face in politeness theory refers
to the:
a. public self-image of a person
c, desire to be liked
B. the front part of the head
d. flouting of the maxims
116 Which of the following below is NOT a face-
threatening act?
a. borrowing
b. requesting
c. asking
d. notetaking
117 Why are politeness strategies being applied in
some instances? Choose the best answer.
a because people are polite in nature
b. because the speaker wants to save the hearer's
face
c. because we want to avoid conflict with others
d. because a person needs to be respected
118 This what speaker means to convey in the
utterance.
a. Perlocution
b. Illocution
c. Locution
d. positive politeness
For 119-126, identify what type of maxim is
flouted in the following set of utterances.
a. Maxim of Quantity
c. Maxim of Relevance/ Relation
b. : Maxim of Quality
d. Maxim of Manner
119.A: "How can I develop a great body like
yours?"
B: "Choose your parents carefully."
120 " A: "Hmmmm, I thought I left my watch in
my desk drawer before I left for Spring Break."
B: "Well I definitely didn't take it. Absolutely not.
There's no way I would take someone else's
property. Besides, I already have my own watch.
And I would never steal from someone, never.
121. A: "I wonder why Dave didn't answer the
phone. I know he's home."
B: "It's Thursday night."
122 A. "Let's stop and get something to eat. The
kids must be hungry."
B: "Okay, but not M-C-D-O-N-A-L-D-S"
123. A: "Hey, JOEL! What are you reading?"
B: "A book." [abrupt silence]
124. A: "Would you like to go out with Beatrice?"
B: "Is the Pope Catholic"?
125. A: "So tell me, do you like what I did to my
hair?
B. ER ...what's on TV tonight?"
126 "Would you like to hear my rendition of
'Feelings"?."
B: "Yes, of course. I'd love to." (it's actually the
last thing you want to hear
127. Language is an organization and a process of
human communication which consists of
structured arrangement of strings or sounds that
are put together to form a code. This definition
pertains to:
À. Language as a System
C. Language as Speech
B. Language as Convention
D. Language as Human
128 When we process information and respond
through words, either written or spoken, this refer
to language's function as:
A. a System a Convention
G. a Speech
D. a Human
129: When we process information and respond
through words, either written or spoken, this
definition pertains to language's function as:
c. Language as Speech
A. Language as a System
'B. Language as Convention
D. Language as Human
130. It is concerned not only with describing the
knowledge that an adult speaker has of his or her
language, but also with explaining how that
knowledge is acquired.
A. Grammar Development
C. Universal Grammar
D, Linguistic Theory
B. Language Theory