The study of the way that sequences of words are ordered into phrases, clauses, and sentences is called____________?

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1. ______________________ is the device used in modern linguistics for grouping together words and phrases so as to remove ambiguity of construction?

   A. Transformational Generative grammar
   B. The phrase structure Grammar
   C. Immediate Constituent Analysis
   D. All the abovE.

2. A term which refers to the sequential characteristics of language. When we construct WORDS and SENTENCES we follow a certain order in arranging the individual items.

   A. Syntagmatic
   B. Synergy
   C. Performance
   D. N. O. T

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3. Words composed of two or more elements that are identical or slightly different are called____________?

   A. Compounding
   B. Acronym
   C. Re__duplicates
   D. Conversion

4. ____________is the process by which new words are coined by combining the segments of two different words ?

   A. Portmanteau
   B. Onomatopoeia
   C. Clipping
   D. Metanalysis

5. ______________________is a processes of word formation wherein new words are coined by combining the segments of two different existing words?

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

6. Which of the following patterns of intonation is used in declarative sentences uttered as questions ?

   A. The falling
   B. The rising
   C. The fall__rise
   D. None of the above

7. ________________refers to significant changes of pitch and stress pertaining to sentences?

   A. Intonation
   B. Stress
   C. Pitch
   D. JuncturE

8. Which of the following patterns of intonation is used in declarative sentences uttered as ordinary statements ?

   A. The falling
   B. The rising
   C. The fall__rise
   D. None of the above

9. A pair of terms introduced by Noam CHOMSKY in 1965 to describe native speakers’ intuitions about the grammatical correctness, or otherwise, of sentences.

   A. Both b and c
   B. Diachrony/Synchrony
   C. Acceptable/Unacceptable
   D. N. O. T

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10. In its general sense it refers to the creative capacity of language users to produce an endless number of new sentences, in contrast to the communication systems of animals is called ?

    A. Productivity
    B. Langue
    C. Paradigmatic
    D. Parole

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