SD English Majorship - Session 1 Introduction to Linguistics - 50 ITEMS
Quiz by Salindunong RTC
Feel free to use or edit a copy
includes Teacher and Student dashboards
Measure skillsfrom any curriculum
Tag the questions with any skills you have. Your dashboard will track each student's mastery of each skill.
- edit the questions
- save a copy for later
- start a class game
- automatically assign follow-up activities based on students’ scores
- assign as homework
- share a link with colleagues
- print as a bubble sheet
- Q1
Which word formation process is used in the following pairs of words?
Cry- to cry
Pear - to spear
Time - to time
Conversion
Derivational
Nonce
Coinage
30s - Q2
The following words: edit from editor, and beg from beggar are
formed through _____.
Derivation
Clipping
Back formation
Blending
30s - Q3
Let’s surveil the place. The morpheme surveil is an example of
_____________.
Clipping
Root creation
Derivation
Back formation
30s - Q4
Forming of words together to create new words such as waterbed and gutbuster is called ______________.
Blending
Compounding
Clipping
Rejoicing
30s - Q5
The words “gym, mike, and TV” are formed through
Clipping
compounding
Back formation
Root creation
30s - Q6
What word formation process is used in the following words?
Mesmerize, narcissistic, sadistic
Nicotine, poinsettia, praline
Nonce
Clipping
Blending
Eponym
30s - Q7
Which word formation process is used in the following pairs of words?
Cry- to cry
Pear - to spear
Time - to time
Derivational
Coinage
Nonce
Conversion
30s - Q8
Which among the words below has an inflectional morpheme?
Commuters
Candid
Action
Commencement
30s - Q9
What is the root word of "antidisestablishmentarianism"?
disestablish
establish
anti
establishment
30s - Q10
How many inflectional morphemes are there in English language?
5
6
8
7
30s - Q11
BOUND MORPHEME OF THE WORD ASSEMBLIES IS _______?
Assemble
Assembly
ies
as
30s - Q12
Which of the following is an example derivational morpheme?
longest
stays
helpful
eaten
30s - Q13
Which of the following is an example of a bound morpheme ending in -ion that changes a verb into a noun?
nation
scion
mention
action
30s - Q14
The word kindergarten is often used as kinder and aircon to airconditioner. This word formation is known as____
Acronym
Clipping
Abbreviation
Blending
30s - Q15
This refers to a morphological process whereby a root morpheme is replaced by a phonologically unrelated form in order to indicate a grammatical contrast, such as ‘went’ which is the past tense of ‘go’.
conjugation
external change
internalchange
suppletion
30s