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English Language Trivia
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What is the shortest grammatically correct sentence in English?
Go!
25
Approximately how many words are added to English dictionaries each year?
6,000
10,000
300
1,000
15
How many diphthongs are there in English?
6
8
7
5
15
Approximately how old is the English language?
1,800 years old
1,100 years old
1,400 years old
900 years old
15
Supportive terms such as ‘oh’ and ‘really’ are examples of
fillers
hedging
clarifying
backchanneling
15
What is polysemy?
When a word form has multiple meanings that may potentially be related to one another?
25
What is the study of meaning in context?
pragmatics
semantics
phonetics
onomastics
15
A sound formed by combining two vowels in a single syllable is called a ______.
diphthong
20
True or False? In compound nouns, the stress is usually on the second syllable
False (it's usually on the first)
10
Syntax is the study of the structure of ______.
sentences
15
True or False? From the dialects and vocabulary of Germanic peoples—Angles, Saxons, and Jutes—who settled in Britain in the 5th century
True
10
Now, well, you know, and like are examples of
intensifiers
discourse markers
backchanneling
slang
15
Smog ← smoke + fog is an example of blending. Give another example.
_______
15
What is the negative counter-part to synonymy called?
Antonymy
10
Laboratory → lab, gymnasium → gym, or influenza → flu are examples of what type of word-formation?
derivation
affixation
blending
clipping
15
Name one process of word formation.
compounding, affixation, blending, clipping, acronym formation
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