1. Semantics is the technical term used to refer to the study of … A. Grammatical categories B. B. Meaning C. Context. D. Society 2. Semantics was firstly introduced in a paper read to the American Philology in A. 1984 B. B. 1986 C. C. 1990. D. D. 2000 3. Philology is a traditional terms which stands for … A. Synchronic linguistic B. B. Meaning C. C. Pragmatics D. D. language history 4. One of the most famous books in semantics is the ‘meaning of meaning’ by … A. Palmer B. B. Yule C. C. C.K. Odgen D. D. Quirk 5. Signifier or signified refers to language as an information system or a message associating meaning. This is done by … A. Chomsky B. Gofman. C. Levinson D. Saussure 6. Competence is a term used in linguistic theory referring to … A. Speaker’s knowledge of his/her language B. B. Concrete objects C. C. Performance D. D. none of them 7. Sentence meaning stands for … A. Rules of grammar B. Lexicon C. Graphemes D. All of them 8. Utterances refer to secondary aspects especially those that refer to … A. Text. B. Context. C. Textual traces D. Sounds 9. Denotation in semantics means … A. Communal association B. B. Hidden meaning C. C. Explicit meaning D. D. Literal meaning 10. ……… in 1933 Offered a solution that ‘the word is a minimum free form.’ A. Bloomfield. B. B. Henry Sweet C. C. Russell D. D. De Saussure 11.Ellipsis is the … A. Substitution B. B. Omission C. C. Reference D. D. Pro-formation 12. Context of situation is a term introduced by two scholars … A. De Saussure and Chomsky B. B. Sacks and Scheglof C. C. Leech and Short D. D. Milanowski and Firth 13.Collocation is a field theory introduced by Trier and Firth and then Porzig (1934) which refers to … A. Habitual co-occurrence B. literal meaning C. Connotation D. Syntagmatic relations 14. Polysemy is a term used to mean … A. The same word with different meanings B. Same meaning C. Opposite meaning D. Components 15. Kiprasky (1971) defined presupposition as … A. Constant under negation B. Implicature C. deep structure D. Surface structure Goerge Yule the study of language 16. Etymology is the study of … A. Borrowing B. Origin and History of a word C. Joining D. Blending 17. ……… is a word formation process that refers to a change in function of a word as for example when a noun comes to be used as a verb. A. Clipping B. Back-formation C. Acronyms D. Conversion 18. Descriptive approach is used to describe … A. Derivation B. B. Morphology C. C. the facts of linguistic usage as they are D. Rules of correction 19.Recursion in syntax refers to … A. Repeatable any number of items B. TGG C. Prescriptive approach D. Gender 20. Associative meaning covers the … A. Connotation B. Denotative meaning C. Conceptual meaning. D. Meaning 21.Agent stands for … A. The one or thing that performs an action B. Theme C. Affected. D. None of them 22.Gradable antonyms are a type of antonyms that can be used in … A. Comparable construction like big and small B. Hyponymy C. Synonymy D. Conversion 23. Non-gradable antonyms are also called complementary pairs which …. A. Used in comparable adjectives B. Do not used in comparable adjectives C. Inclusion. D. None of them 24. ………. Is defined when the meaning of one word is included in the meaning of the other. A. Hyponymy B. B. Acronym C. Polysemy D. Gradable 25. When two words have the same pronunciation but different meaning … A. Homonyms B. Polysemy C. Homophones D. None of them 26. ……… is the study of what speakers mean or the study of what speakers mean by their utterances. A. Semantics B. B. Pragmatics C. C. Discourse analysis D. D. Sociolinguistics 27.………… is the physical location that influences our interpretation A. Co-text B. Linguistic context C. Utterance D. Physical context 28. Deixis comes from Greece which means A. Referring back B. Pointing via object C. Speech D. Writing 29. ………… is an additional information used by the listener to create connection between what is said and what is written A. Anaphora B. Cataphora C. Inference . D. None of them 30.…………. Is what a speaker or writer assumes is true by the reader or listener A. Presupposition B. Speech acts C. Reference D. Inference 31. Speech acts can be defined as … A. Direct meaning B. Indirect meaning C. Interaction D. Action performed by a speaker with an utterance Peter Roach Phonetics and Phonology 32. Any particular occurrence of sound segment that is used by a speaker in words may be referred to as … A. Phone B. Minimal Pair C. Phonotactic D. Phoneme 33.Auditory phonetics may also refer to as … A. Articulatory phonetics B. Acoustic phonetics C. Perceptual phonetics. D. None of them 34. The study of the structure and systematic patterning of sounds in a particular language is …. A. Phonetics B. Phonology C. Linguistics D. Phonotactics 35.The terms form and function are related to … A. Phonetics and phonology B. Consonants C. Vowels D. all of the above 36. The concept that two allophones of one phoneme might occur within similar context is known as … A. Phonotactics B. Free variation C. Complementary distribution D. Minimal pairs 37. The concept that two allophones of one phoneme have no environment or context in common is known as … A. Phonetics B. B. Free variation C. Complementary distribution D. Minimal pairs 38. If we want to transcribe as much details as possible, we would use … A. Analphabetic B. Phonemic transcription C. Phonetic transcription D. Broad transcription. 39. Broad transcription can also be called … A. Analphabetic transcription B. Phonemic transcription C. Phonetic transcription D. Citation-form transcription 40. Within the unstressed syllables, vowel reduction can occur. The reduced vowel commonly assumes which quality? A. A vowel that has a lower articulation B. A diphthong quality C. The schwa vowel D. The vowel is not articulated at all 41.Which of the following is a voiced post-dorsal velar nasal ? A. /g/ B. /n/ C. /ŋ / D. /h/ 42.Which of the approximants can serve as a syllable consonants ? A. /l/ B. /w/ C. /r/ D. /j/ Quirk University Grammar of English 43.……….. is by far the most frequent kind of object, and it must always be present if there is an indirect object in the sentence. A. Indirect object B. Direct object C. Subject Complement D. Object complement 44. When verbs will not admit the progressive, they are called … A. Stative B. Dynamic C. Intensive D. Extensive 45. The set of closed-system items (articles, conjunctions, pronouns, demonstratives, prepositions) are closed in the sense that … A. New items can be added B. Involve creation of new words C. they cannot be normally extended by the creation of additional members D. None of them Note: Open-class items are open because they are extendable (new words can be added which is called coinage in the word formation processes) 46. Many English verbs have …….. forms A. Three B. FIVE C. SIX D. TWO 47. Concord means … A. Non-agreement B. Contrast C. Verb phrase D. Agreement between the subject and the verb 48. ……….. this kind of subjunctive categories has the indicator of that-clause which lacks the property of concord between the subject and the finite verb phrase. A. Mandative subjunctive B. Formulaic subjunctive C. The subjunctive were D. hypothetical subject 49. ‘I will write as soon as I can.’ The modal auxiliary ‘will’ here indicates … A. Prediction B. Insistence C. Intention D. Possibility 50. ‘The road may be blocked’ the modal auxiliary ‘may’ shows … A. Possibility B. Capability C. Willingness D. Intention 51.Involves the change of vowel in the middle of the noun to make it plural … A. En-Plural B. Generic plural C. Mutation D. Zero Plural 52. ……these differ from other nouns in taking as pronoun substitute either singular (it) or plural (they) without change of number in the noun. A. Personal dual gender B. Generic nouns C. C. Higher organisms D. Collective nouns 53. The most typical semantic role of a subject is ……….. the animate being instigating or causing the happening denoted by the verb (John opened the door) A. Agentive B. Theme C. Current attribute D. Resulting attribute 54. I have found you a place. ‘YOU’ is the A. Direct object B. B. Recipient C. Affected D. Effected 55. ‘He turned traitor or he became restless’ has the semantic role of … A. Affected Effected B. Resulting attribute C. Current attribute D. Effected 56. ‘The avalanche destroyed several houses’ indicates …….. A. Instrument B. Agent C. Actor D. Affected 57. The pencil was lying on the table. THE PENCIL IS …… A. Instrument B. Affected C. Effected D. Agent 58. The path is swarming with ants…. the semantic role of the PATH is A. Locative B. Place C. Time D. None of the 59. The concert is on Thursday. The subject ‘concert’ has the semantic role that of … A. Temporal B. Spatial C. Eventive D. Empty 60. A Subject may lack the semantic content altogether, and consists only the meaningless word ‘it’ ………. A. Eventive B. Empty C. Locative D. None of them 61. The most important type of CONCORD in English is that of ….. A. Number B. Gender C. Aspect D. Case