ENG226 Tma Solutions
1. Identify the odd item from the options lettered A-D
clipping
affixation
borrowing
—>> lending
2. Modal auxilliary as exemplified in the sentence: I can drive is indicative of one of the following mood.
intention
—>> ability
permission
compulsion
3. Adverb of ____ indicates the rate of occurrence of an action.
degree
—>> frequency
manner
time
4. Adjectives are ____ when they come before the nouns they describe.
qualitative
descriptive
predicative
—>> attributive
5. ____ deals primarily with the internal structure of the potential complex words of a language.
Discourse Analysis
Phonemics
—>> Morphology of a language
Lexicology
6. No one knows tomorrow except God. The underline part of the sentence exemplifies ____ pronoun.
—>> indefinite
reflexive
relative
interrogative
7. A free or bound morpheme may be added to another in order to produce a ____.
sentence
another morpheme
phoneme
—>> word
8. Which of the followings is not a feature of derivational morpheme?
—>> It is a mere grammatical indicator or marker
It changes meaning or word class
It indicates semantic relations in words
It occurs before the inflectional bound morphemes should they co-occur
9. Which of the followings is NOT a characteristic of the English word?
Every word has its word- class
Every word has a meaning
—>> It is the unit next in rank above the phoneme.
Every word has a unique way of being pronounced by the native speakers
10. ____ is that minimal unit of a word which cannot be further broken up without destroying or drastically altering the meaning.
Phonology
—>> Morphology
Lexicology
Semantics
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