Question 1
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Linguistics is the study of _____________?
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Language
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Speaking
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Writing
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Communicating
Question 2
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How many different consonants are in the words "consonant"?
Question 3
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When somebody says, "You're just arguing semantics!" what are they really saying?
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Your argument is irrelevant.
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You are contradicting yourself.
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You are arguing word meanings.
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You are arguing word pronunciations.
Question 4
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The word "bunt" is an example of baseball _____________.
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Lexicon
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Register
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Dialect
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Fricatives
Question 5
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How many bound morphemes are in the word "fearlessly"?
Question 6
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If the word order of a sentence is confusing, the sentence has a problem with ____________.
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Prescriptive grammar
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Stops
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Semantics
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Syntax
Question 7
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The first and last sounds in "five" are examples of _______________.
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Fricatives
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Affricatives
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Nasals
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Glides
Question 8
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The sentence "The television drank my water" has a problem with ______________?
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Semantics
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Phonology
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Descriptive grammar
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Pragmatics
Question 9
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Aside from abbreviations, acronyms, and some controversial words such as "psst," almost all words in Standard English have at least one vowel.
Question 10
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A dialect is the exact same thing as an accent.
Question 11
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True or False: Inaudible movements of the mouth can not be considered a form of communication.
Question 12
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Standard English applies to a common norm of grammar, vocabulary, and spelling.
Question 13
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The letter P is a voiced consonant.
Question 14
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AAVE is commonly known as Ebonics outside of the academic community.
Question 15
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The first and the last sounds in "cat" are examples of stops.
Question 16
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Which of the sounds in the phrase "my name" are nasals?
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M in my
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Y in my
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N in name
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A in name
Question 17
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Which words with a voiceless affricative?
Question 18
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Which words begin with glides?
Question 19
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Which of the following are considered rules of prescriptive grammar?
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You must not begin a sentence with "Because".
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You must not use first person in a formal essay.
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You must not split an infinitive.
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You must not end a sentence with a preposition.
Question 20
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Which words have 4 or more phonemes?