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REVISION – PRACTICE

Time allowed: 60 minutes

Task 1: Decide whether the following statements are True or False.

1. There are three nasal sounds in English.

2. The lip is the most important articulator when pronouncing a sound.

3. Classification of morph is based on meaning.

4. Derivational affixes can be both prefixes and suffixes.

5. Overt categories are expressed implicitly by the co-occurrence of some function


words.

Task 2: Find the odd one out and explain your choice

6. /p, d, t, m/:

7. /p, h, k, d/:

8. /i:, i, uː, æ/:

9. /m, n, ŋ, s/:

10. / ʊ, ɒ, u:, e/:

Task 3: Give an example for each of the following linguistic concepts

11. a palatal consonant

12. An affricative consonant

13. an open syllable

14. a blending word

15. a prepositional phrase

Task 4: Write the term for the following definition

16. A glide from one vowel to another

17. An extra force put on a particular syllable of the word, which is usually fixed
18. A special kind of function shift in which a proper noun is converted into a
common word

19. The concrete realization of a morpheme

20. It is made up of at least two independent clauses and one or more dependent
clauses.

Task 5: Write ONE example for each structure

21. BOUND MORPH, derivational prefix + FREE MORPH, content word

22. FREE MORPH, content word + BOUND MORPH, derivational prefix + BOUND
MORPH, inflectional prefix

23. BOUND MORPH, derivational prefix + FREE MORPH, content word + BOUND
MORPH, inflectional prefix

24. FREE MORPH, content word + FREE MORPH, content word

25. BOUND MORPH, derivational prefix + FREE MORPH, content word + BOUND
MORPH, derivational prefix + BOUND MORPH, inflectional prefix

Task 6: Identify the structures and functions of the underlined parts

26. Your presentation gave the listeners a general idea of the subject matter.

27. I regard him as my family member.

28. Recently well-paid jobs are not rare as long as you deserve them.

29. The market is increasing more significantly than ever.

30. It’s hard to understand his accent.

Task 7: Identify the clause structures

31. The poor sailor was at sea for a year.

32. Knives may give people pain.

33. Today, I intend to come back home after two years going away doing nothing.

34. She found the test easier than expected.


35. The home-made bread tastes like heaven.

Task 8: Identify the type and function of the dependent clauses

36. What I want is what you have.

37. Never put off what you can do today until tomorrow.

38. When I was four, I could read and write.

39. After finishing his homework, he went on with his project.

40. She denied taking the bracelet.

Task 9: State if the following sentences are simple (S), complex (Cx), compound
(Cp) or compound complex (CC)

41. Alan, together with his family and partners, is going on a vacation on a far-away
beach.

42. I felt tired, so I went to bed early.

43. Although he never confessed, I realized how embarrassed he was at that time.

44. The lecture which has been on for ages is not going to end soon, but everybody is
trying hard to follow attentively.

45. That the Earth is round is untrue.

Task 10: What are consonants? Explain how are consonants classified? Give
examples for illustration.

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