1.Which theory’s speech was produced by man’s attempting to imitate some characteristics sound?
a).The Pooh – Pooh theory
b).The bow-wow theory
c).The ding – dong theory
d).The gesture theory
2.Which of the following theory is associated with the German scholar and philologist Max Muller?
a).The Pooh – Pooh theory
b).The bow-wow theory
c).The ding – dong theory
d).The gesture theory
3.Which is not included in the Primitive Germanic group of Indo European Language family?
a).Rumanian
b).Gothic
c).Scandinavian
d).West Germanic
4.Bulgarian, Serbian, Czech,Russian, and Polish are languages of ________ group.
a).Armenian
b).Albanian
c).Balto-salvonic
d).Celtic
5.Historian of the English language distinguish three main stages in its development. 1. Old English or Anglo-saxon period. 2. Middle English period, 3. Modern English Period. Old English Period is __________.
a).100 to 599
b).600 to 1100
c).1100 to 1500
d).1500 to present
6.Most of the literature of Old English period written in the dialect of ________.
a).Wessex
b).Kentish
c).East Midland
d).Cornwall
7.Academic or learned words – vacuum, apex, radius, dictum, quantum are entered into English from ___________.
a).Latin
b).Scandinavian
c).Greek
d).French
8.The dialect of Wessex attained to the position of a kind of ‘Standard’ one in Old English (Anglo - Saxon) period. Which one dialect came to occupy a similar position in Middle English?
a).West Midland
b).East Midland
c).Cornwall
d).Kentish
9.How many gender system in Old English ?
a).1
b).2
c).3
d).4
10.It is the name given to that process, seen most clearly in the principle parts of verbs, by which vowel sounds undergo a change according to whether they occur in a stressed or an unstressed syllable.
a).gradation
b).mutation
c).umlaut
d).inflection
11.The mutation merely means __________.
a).Cancel
b).Change
c).Imitate
d).Deification
12.English and Norman-French languages mingled to give what is known as ____________.
a).Old English
b).Middle English
c).Modern English
d).Classic English
13.The Reign of Henry II in_______.
a).Old English
b).Middle English
c).Modern English
d).Classic English
14.Who declared that ‘except a man knows French men speak of him but little, but low men yet hold to English and to their own speech’
a).Henry II
b).King Alfred
c).Geoffrey Chaucer
d).Robert of Gloucester
15.1450 or thereabouts ‘English’ had become synonymous with and almost all written documents showed traces in this dialect.
a).West Midland
b).East Midland
c).Cornwall
d).Kentish
16.Which of the following is not consisted with East Midland?
a).In most dialects –en became a stock plural termination
b).Dialects showed a prediction for –es
c).Nouns formed their plural in -as
d).Chaucer uses –es for the most part
17.Which of the option is not consisted in Middle English Period.
a).–an regular for ending of plural
b).–en is became the regular ending for the verbs
c).Chaucer’s day the infinitive without the prefixed to us almost obsolete
d).Greater simplification of the language, was the reduction of inflections
18.The definite article ‘the’ introduced in place of ________.
a).Old English
b).Middle English
c).Modern English
d).Classic English
19.Loan words have come into the language by
a).They may have been brought by foreign invaders who settled here.
b).They may have come through foreign contacts originating in war, exploration, trade, travel.
c).They may come through scholarship, learning and culture.
d).All of the above
20. Which of the following right option for ‘serviette’ has become a synonym of
a).Table-napkin
b).Scop
c).Maker
d).Fakir
21.Phenomenon, phenomena; criterion, criteria are from
a).French
b).Latin
c).Greek
d).Spanish
22.Terminus, termini; formula, formulae; stratum, strata are from
a).French
b).Latin
c).Greek
d).Spanish
23.Which is not right one along with the word ‘Index’?
a).Indices is plural
b).Indexes used of books and documents
c).Indices used in scientific or mathematical sense
d).Indices and index are Hebrew plurals
24.‘Seraphim’ is the plural of ‘seraph’ and ‘cherubium’ is the plural of ‘cherub’. These are __________.
a).Greek plurals
b).Latin plurals
c).French plurals
d).Hebrew plurals
25.Creda (creed), cometa (comet), idol (idol), sanct (saint), cleric (clergyman) these words are mostly used in Christianity, introduced in Anglo-Saxon period. These words are originated in _____.
a).Latin
b).Hebrew
c).Greek
d).French
26.Which of the following foreign contribution have the great influx at the time of Renaissance and Elizabethan period?
a).Latin
b).Hebrew
c).Greek
d).French
27.The study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history is __________.
a).Ontology
b).Philology
c).Anthropology
d).Etymology
28.Etymology : The study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history. The words ‘senior, junior, animal, interim, curriculum, genius, axis’ are etymologically comes from ______.
a).Latin
b).Scandinavian
c).Greek
d).French
29.The word ‘recipe’ is actually a Latin verb in the imperative mood, it’s meaning is ________.
a).Throw
b).Order
c).Take
d).Serve
30.Choose not right match
a).brunch = (breakfast + lunch)
b).infotainment = (information + entertainment)
c).modem = (modulation/demand)
d).knowledgebase = (knowledge/database)
31. malicious + software =
a).Malsoft
b).Waremal
c).Malware
d).Maliciare
32. A minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function is called_____________.
Semantics
Syntax
Pragmatics
Morpheme
33. How many minimal units have in the word ‘reopened’?
one
two
three
four
34. How many minimal unit in the word ‘tour’
one
two
three
four
35. Free morpheme can be
Stand alone
Not to stand alone
Dependent
allomorph
36. Bound morpheme can be
Stand alone
Not to stand alone
Independent
allomorph
37. ‘A dim religious light’ is the phrase appears in Milton’s _____________.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained
Il Penseroso
Samson Agonistes
38. ‘travail’ meant for ___________.
Labour
Book
Voyagers
Passengers
39. The phrase ‘squire of dames’ comes form ________.
Pilgrims progress
Faerie Queene
Canterbury Tales
Vicar of Wakefield
40. The word ‘homekeeping’ is used by ______.
Ben Jonson
William Shakespeare
Samuel Johnson
John Milton
41. Who invented the word ‘elfin’?
Shelley
Tennyson
Edmund Spenser
Chaucer
42. ‘she drives her car in city’. Which of these following is GENITIVE CASE?
She
drive
her
in city
43. Which case is alternative for possessive?
Nominative case
Objective case
accusative case
Genitive case
44. A term used to describe a pidgin after it has become the mother tongue of a certain population
Creole
dialect
accent
parole
45. Each of two or more words having the same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings is
homorganic
homophone
homograph
homonym
46. A new word in the vocabulary of a language
opaque
lexeme
neologism
metalanguage
47. Northwest of Greece on the Eastern coast of the Adriatic is the small branch named_____
Albanian
Italic
Balto – Salvic
Celtic
48. Norman, Picard, Burgundian are the dialects of __________.
English
French
Chinese
Latin
49. Which of the following dialect is a variety of Occitan spoken by a minority of people in southern France?
Picard
Ile-de-France
Norman
Provencal
50. Wallon is a dialect of __________ spoken in southern Belgium.
French
English
German
Polish
51. Which of these languages are not a Baltic branch
Prussian
Latvian
Cornish
Lithuanian
52. King Alfred’s English had all the grammatical complexity which exists in modern ________
German
French
Latin
Greek
53. In Old English, it had irrational system of genders: ‘hand’ was feminine, ‘foot’ was masculine. Wife , woman were _________
Masculine
Feminine
Neuter
None of these
54. Which of the following is not a characteristic of Old English.
Some nouns made their genitive singular in –es, other in –e, other in –a, and others in –an
The endings which marked the nominative Plurals were –as, -a, -u, -e, -an
Inflections were strictly followed in using nouns and verbs as modern English
We now say ‘I sing, we sing, I sang, We sang’, the old English forms were ‘ic singe’, ‘we singath’, ‘ic sang’ ‘we sungon’
55. Zaun(German) means
Tree
Tide
Thread
Town
56. The word ‘pipe’ which originally meant a simple musical instrument and afterwards was applied to other things resembling this in shape. It thus became a general name for a hollow __________.
Resembling box
Cylindrical body
A narrow instrument
Separate joints
57. The verb ‘bend’ is derived from ________ word which in English has the two forms band and bond.
French
Latin
Germanic
Greek
58. The verb ‘carry’ is an adoption of Old French word which meant to convey something in a wheeled vehicle. In English it was applied other modes as people speak or ‘carting’. At presently carting is used for
Carting object from one room to another
Throw the object from top to bottom
To build the house
To stop the work progress
59. The name a material often become the name of several different articles made of the material. In this sense, ‘Iron’ may be ________. (Except)
An instrument smoothing linen
A steel part at the end used to hit the ball in golf
A harpoon
A barometer
60. Which is not right one for the meaning of book
A key for ignorance
Light of knowledge
A candle of dark
An instrument to drag towards dark
61. Urdu is by origin and present structure closely related to ________
Marathi
Tamil
Hindi
Bengali
62. Avestan is the language of Avesta. In which group does Avestan belong?
Iranian
Armenian
Hellenic
Albanian
63. Persian has been the language of an important culture and an extensive literature since the ninth century. Persian is also known as________.
Avestan
Pahlavi
Farsi
Pali
64. Which language group is found in a small area south of the Caucaus Mountains and the eastern end of the Black Sea.
Armenican
Indian
Sanskrit
Albanian
65. Ironic, Aeolic, Arcadian – Cyprian, Doric, Northwest Greek. These are the five principal dialectal groups. These dialects are belongs to the language of __________
Hindi
English
Greek
Latin
66. A particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group is called.
Idiolect
dialect
Pidgin
Syntax
67. Which of the following is plosive consonant sounds
/f/
/k/
/m/
/n/
68. IPA stands for
Internal Phonetic Alphabet
International Phonemic Acoustic
Inter-sound Phonetic Alphabet
International Phonetic Alphabet
69. A branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in spoken languages and signs in sign languages is called.
Morphology
Sociology
Phonology
Philology
70. A combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable is called.
Monophthongs
gliding vowel
zero vowel
null phoneme
71. ‘Caviare to the general’, ‘men in buckram’, ‘coign of Vantage’, ‘a tower of strength’, ‘Full of sound and fury’, ‘a Daniel come to judgement’, ‘yeoman service’, ‘the sere and yellow leaf’, ‘hoist with his own petard’, ‘to eat the leek’, ‘curled darlings’, ‘to the manner born’, ‘moving accident’, ‘a triton among the minnows’, ‘one’s pound of flesh’, ‘to wear one’s heart upon one’s sleeve’, ‘Sir Oracle’, ‘to gild refined gold’, ‘metal more attractive’, - all these phrased by ______.
Samuel Johnson
John Milton
Ben Johnson
William Shakespeare
72. ‘Darkness visible’ is the phrase appears in Milton’s _____________.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained
On His Blindness
Samson Agonistes
73. ‘To hide one’s diminished head’ is the phrase appears in Milton’s _____________.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained
On His Blindness
Samson Agonistes
74. ‘The human face divine’ is the phrase appears in Milton’s _____________.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained
On His Blindness
Samson Agonistes
75. Prefix and suffix come to under the category of which morpheme?
Free morpheme
Bound morpheme
lexical morpheme
Inflectional morpheme
76. Which can be identified as set of separate English word forms such as basic nouns, adjectives and verbs?
Free morpheme
Bound morpheme
Derivational morpheme
Inflectional morpheme
77. The basic word forms are technically known as _______
semantic
stem
partial
bound morpheme
78. Identify the stem in the word ‘undressed’
un
dress
ed
undressed
79. Identify the stem in the word ‘carelessness’
care
less
ness
carelessness
80. In old English ‘tun’ meant a piece of ground enclosed by a fence, and specifically a farm with building upon it. The old English farm-house, surrounded by the cottages of the labourers, later it gradually developed into villages, grew into still larger collections of habitations. The word ‘tur’ means ________in modern English.
Zaun
Town
Village
Farm
81. The English ‘tide’ is the same word as the German Zeit, and in Old English it had the same meaning namely _________. In Middle English its application was restricted, so that it meant chiefly the time of the periodical rise or fall of the sea. Additionally the words Christmastide, Whitsuntide helps to get the meaning of tide.
Column
Sea
Time
Wave
82. What is the sense of ‘tide’ in the Old English from the words ‘Christmastide ’, ‘shrovetide’, and ‘whiutsuntide’?
Time
Village
Place
Wave
83. ‘Centum’ is the ________ word. In English it means ‘Hundred’.
German
French
Latin
Sanskrit
84. How many morphs are consists in the word ‘buses’
One
Two
Three
four
85. Who explained Grimm’s Law consequently?
Karl Varner
James Eyre
William Greenfield
Robert Scott
86. Choose odd one from the list which has language groups and family.
Armenian
Hellenic
Germanic
Indo-European
87. ‘kernel sentences’ means
A sentence has multiple verbs
It is a complex sentence
A simple declarative construction
A sentence is formed using noun words only without verb
88. 'Syntactic Structures' is a major work in linguistics by American linguist. It was first published in 1957. Who is writer of this book?
Noam Chomsky
Roman Jakobson
Nikolai Trubetzkoy
Charles Sanders Peirce
89. ‘Aspects of the Theory of Syntax’ is a book on linguistics by
Noam Chomsky
Roman Jakobson
Nikolai Trubetzkoy
Charles Sanders Peirce
90. Whose poetry must that his language, ‘pseudo-archaic’ as it may be called, was the only fitting vehicle for his tone of thought and feeling?
Samuel Johnson
Chaucer
Edmund Spenser
William Wordsworth
91. Control, credent, dwindle, illume, lonely, orb (sense of globe) were used by _______ and have not yet been found in any earlier writer.
Ben Jonson
William Shakespeare
Samuel Johnson
John Milton
92. The familiar word ‘braggadocio’ is an allusion to the proper name of the vainglorious knight in _______.
Pilgrims progress
King Lear
Canterbury Tales
Faerie Queene
93. In whose work does the adjective word ‘blatant’ appear first?
Edmund Spenser
John Milton
William Wordsworth
William Shakespeare
94. lexical morpheme comes under the _______
free morpheme
bound morpheme
functional morpheme
derivational morpheme
95. Functional morpheme comes under the ______
free morpheme
bound morpheme
functional morpheme
derivational morpheme