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

Related Mcqs:

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 some of Byron’s poems

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”