/s/, /z/ are called ____________?

Related Mcqs:

1. The consonant /l/ is called ____________?

   A. Sibilant
   B. Lateral
   C. Nasal
   D. Semi__vowel

2. Sounds articulated by two lips are called ____________?

   A. Dental
   B. Bilabial
   C. Labio__dental
   D. Alveolar

3. Fill in the blanks from Tennyson’s The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the _________ Man for the sword and for the ____________ she: Man with the head and woman with the …..: Man to command and woman to ____________?

   A. crop; scabbard; foot; agree
   B. throne; scepter; soul; decree
   C. school; scalpel; pen; set free
   D. hearth; needle; heart; obey

4. Short plays called ____________ staged dialogues on religious, moral, and political themes were performed by playing companies before the construction of public theaters?

   A. interludes
   B. spectacles
   C. meditations
   D. mysteries

5. The Yo__He__Ho Theory of the origin of language was advanced by ____________?

   A. Wilhelm Wundt and Sir Richard Paget
   B. Noire
   C. Max__Muller
   D. Otto Jepersen

6. The final /m/ in the word ‘Prism’ is an instance of ____________?

   A. Syllabic consonants
   B. Sibilants
   C. Suffixes
   D. None of the above

7. The ‘ing’ in sleeping is an example of ____________?

   A. A free morpheme
   B. Free variation
   C. Bound morpheme
   D. None of these

8. Words such as ‘black__leg’ and ‘flash__light’ are instances of ____________?

   A. Compounding
   B. Portmanteau
   C. Derivation
   D. Backformation

9. Words such as ‘phone’ and ‘photo’ are instances of ____________?

   A. Compounding
   B. Portmanteau
   C. Derivation
   D. Clipping.

10. Words such as ‘smog’ and ‘motel’ are instances of ____________?

    A. Compounding
    B. Portmanteau
    C. Derivation
    D. Backformation