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Question 1
Question MCQ▾
Which of these is the smallest identifiable grammatical unit?
Choices
Choice (4) | Response | |
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a. | Stem | |
b. | Phoneme | |
c. | Word | |
d. | Morpheme |
Question 2
Question MCQ▾
In which category would ‘verbs’ full in the India grammatical tradition?
Choices
Choice (4) | Response | |
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a. | Naama | |
b. | Ankhyaata | |
c. | Nipaata | |
d. | Upsurge |
Question 3
Question MCQ▾
A graphic symbol that represents an idea or concept, independent of any particular language and specific words or phrases is called:
Choices
Choice (4) | Response | |
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a. | A monograph | |
b. | An ideograph | |
c. | A sonograph | |
d. | A logograph |
Question 4
Question MCQ▾
In the sentence ‘I went to the market’ , ‘to’ is a/an:
Choices
Choice (4) | Response | |
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a. | Prepositional | |
b. | Adverb | |
c. | Infinitival | |
d. | Interjection |
Question 5
Question MCQ▾
A word occurring only once in each corpus is called
Choices
Choice (4) | Response | |
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a. | tris legomena | |
b. | hapax legomena | |
c. | tetrakis legomena | |
d. | dis legomena |
Question 6
Question Match List-Ⅰ List-Ⅱ▾
Match the Column 1 with Column 2
List-Ⅰ (Column - 1) | List-Ⅱ (Column - 2) |
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(A) H. Paul Grice | (i) The Prague School |
(B) John Austin | (ii) Language as a form of Action |
(C) J. J. Gumperz | (iii) Interactional Sociolinguistics |
(D) Roman Jacobson | (iv) The Cooperative Principle |
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