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

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1. The opening lines of Charlotte Smith’s “Beachy Head” refer to the speaker “reclin[ing]” on the “stupendous summit” of a “rock sublime” as her “Fancy” went forth. This poem reflects which of the following features common to much Romantic poetry ?

   A. An emphasis on the relationship between a natural setting and the imagination as in Wordsworth’s poems B. A focus on the poet as seer as in some of Keats’s poems C. A call for social and political reform as in some of Shelley’s works D. A nod to the poet as outcast as in...

2. 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...

3. Assimilation is mainly of ____________ types?

   A. Four B. Two C. Three D. Only one...

4. The final /t/ in walked is ____________?

   A. An adjective forming morpheme B. Plural morpheme C. Possessive morpheme D. Past morpheme Updated by: Naveed Ur Rehman...

5. Phonemes which effect meaning change in the same linguistic environment are said to be in ____________?

   A. Contrastive distribution B. Complementary distribution C. Non__contrastive distribution D. None of the abovE....

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

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

7. The – s in ‘she sings well’ is ____________?

   A. An adjective forming morpheme B. Plural morpheme C. Possessive morpheme D. Morpheme signaling third person singular....

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

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

9. Words such as ‘edit’ and ‘house__keep’ are instances of ____________?

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

10. The theory of Transformational Generative Grammar is contained in ____________?

    A. Chomsky’s “Syntactic Structures” B. Chomsky’s “Aspects of the theory of Syntax” C. Leonard Bloomfield’s “Language” D. Both “a’ & “b”...