1. English belongs to this family of languages..
Answer: Indo-European
2. Anglo-Saxon language is otherwise called as...
Answer: Old English
3. "Beowulf" was written in ...
Answer: Old English
4. Great Vowel Shift stands for...
Answer: Change in the pronunciation
5. The first English Dictionary...
Answer: A Table Alphabeticall
6. Mercian dialect of Old English was in use in...
Answer: Midlands of British Isles
7. The earlier inhabitants of British Isles...
Answer: Celts
8. Famous Book in middle English...
Answer: Prologue to Canterbury Tales
9. A combination of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo- Norman gave birth to ...
Answer: Middle English
10. Many Greek and Latin words found a place in English during..
Answer: Late Modern English period
11. Famous book in Middle English is-
Ans: Prologue to Canterbury Tales
12. A combination of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman gave birth to -
Ans: Middle English
13. The first English Dictionary -
Ans: A Table Alphabetical
14. 'Beowulf' was written in -
Ans: Old English
15. Many Greek and Latin words found a place in English during the period of-
Ans: Late Modern English
16. Language is primarily -
Ans: Speech
17. The popular theory with regard to the evolution of language is-
Ans: Divine gift theory
18. "Language is a system of arbitrary Vocal symbols" is said by-
Ans: Ward Haugh
19. The system of sounds is known as-
Ans: Phonology
20. The linguistic ability of a human being to talk about things in past and future denotes -
Ans: Language exhibits displacement
21. The status of 'Library Language' was given to English by-
Ans: Kothari Commission
22. The term 'Great Vowel Shift' was coined by-
Ans: Jesperson
23. 'Great Vowel Shift' stands for-
Ans: Change in the pronunciation
24. "Language learning is essentially a habit forming process" was said by-
Ans: Palmer
25. The first English dictionary .....
1) Merriam - Webster's dictionary 2) A Table Alphabeticall
3) Random House dictionary 4) Oxford dictionary
Ans: 2 (A Table Alphabeticall)
26. "Beowulf" was written in .....
1) Old English 2) Middle English 3) Anglo-Norman 4) Modern English
Ans: 1 (Old English)
27. Many Greek and Latin words found a place in English during ..... period.
1) Old English 2) Middle English 3) Early Modern English 4) Late Modern English
Ans: 4 (Late Modern English)
28. 'Great Vowel Shift' stands for .....
1) Reformation in English 2) Flow of words from other languages
3) Transition of words from other languages 4) Change in the pronunciation.
Ans: 4 (Change in the pronunciation)
29. The term 'Great Vowel Shift' was coined by....
1) Palmer 2) Jesperson 3) Michael West 4) Edward Sapir
Ans: 2 (Jesperson)
30. The linguistic ability of human beings to describe the things in the past and the future denotes .....
1) Language is arbitary 2) Language is an agent of culture
3) Language exhibits redundancy 4) Lanuage exhibits displacement
Ans: 4 (Lanuage exhibits displacement)
31. The 'system of sounds' pertaining to language can be termed as .....
1) Semantics 2) Syntax 3) Phonology 4) Morphology
Ans: 3 (Phonology)
32. The popular theory with regard to the evolution of language is .....
1) Divine gift theory 2) Bo-bo theory 3) Ho-ho theory 4) Ding-dong theory
Ans: 1 (Divine gift theory)
33. Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols was propounded by .....
1) Sapir 2) Wardhaugh 3) Barbara 4) Jesperson
Ans: 2 (Wardhaugh)
