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Morphology
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Semantics
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minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units
What is a morpheme
100
English can trace its etymologies to the following languages.
What is Old English, German, French, Latin, Greek.
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English is this type of language
What is Subject + Verb + Object (SVO)
100
English sentence structure often consists of the subject and what the subject is doing. These two components are known as this.
What is subject and predicate
100
The literal meaning of a word.
What is denotation
200
The morpheme "ed" in liked is this type of morpheme.
What is inflectional morpheme.
200
Words with the morpheme "logy", and "philo" come from this language.
What is Greek
200
This tense can be used to express things that are usually true, scientific facts, and routine.
What is the simple present tense
200
Incorrect noun adjective order is a common mistake for ESL students. A reason for this mistake could be.
What is English has a different and more ridged syntactic order then other languages.
200
The implied meaning for a word based on social context.
What is connotation
300
The morpheme "un" in "unbound" is this type of morpheme.
What is derivational morpheme.
300
The "Zh" sound in words like "measure" come from this language.
What is French
300
This tense can be used to express the hypothetical past.
What is past perfect
300
This type of syntax can be used to subdue the doer.
What is the passive voice.
300
Words that are always seen together, such as "spend money", "remember vaguely", "tall buildings".
What is a collocation.
400
How many free morphemes are in "beautiful"
What is 1
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Words are brought to English from other language through this language formation process.
What is borrowing.
400
He is happy. That book looks good. She was sleepy. "is", "looks" and "was" function as this in the example sentences.
What is copula
400
Types of sentences in the English language.
What is Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative and Exclamatory.
400
A way that new words are formed from a change in meaning over time.
What is semantic shift
500
How many inflectional morphemes does English have?
What is 8
500
The English words "Port", "Circumference" and "Prefer" originate from this Language.
What is Latin
500
"These three happy yellow birds sitting on the tall oak tree" Name the determiners in this sentence.
What is "these", "three", "happy", "yellow", "tall", "oak"
500
A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb.
What is a clause
500
Combination of words that have a figurative meaning.
What is an idiom