This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Phonetics > Connected Speech – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Connected Speech Quiz 11 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When people talk, they often blend words together and make some changes in the sounds. This is ..... A) A sign that the speaker is thinking carefully about these changes. B) Mostly a characteristic of uneducated speakers. C) A normal part of everyone's speech. D) A sign of sloppy, lazy speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A normal part of everyone's speech. 2. Connected speech refers to: A) How sentences are written on paper. B) How we choose vocabulary in a conversation. C) How we connect words with punctuation marks. D) How sounds change or disappear when we speak quickly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) How sounds change or disappear when we speak quickly. 3. What sound might disappear in the following: "I can't swim." ? A) The /t/ in can't. B) The /w/ in swim. C) The /n/ in can't. D) The /s/ in swim. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The /t/ in can't. 4. Which word begins with a consonant sound even though the first written letter is a vowel? A) Universe. B) Uncle. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Universe. 5. Which of the followings are continuous consonants? A) P, t, k, g. B) M, n, l, r. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) M, n, l, r. 6. Choose the correct contraction for these words:have got to A) Havta. B) Shoulda. C) Whota. D) Gotta. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gotta. 7. Vegetablechoose the correct way to pronounce A) Ve table. B) Vegetable. C) Veg-table. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Veg-table. 8. Thruough this process an additional sound "intrudes" or inserts itself between others. A) Geminates. B) Elision. C) Assimilation. D) Intrusion. E) Catenation or Linking. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Intrusion. 9. What type of vowels are considered to not have any stress? A) Short vowels. B) Neutral vowels (unstressed schwa). C) Diphthongs. D) Long vowels. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neutral vowels (unstressed schwa). 10. When listing items intonation ..... on the last word. A) Rises. B) Falls. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Falls. 11. In the phrase good point in rapid speech, the letter d will be pronounced as: A) P. B) T. C) B. D) It will be elided. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) B. 12. What is the main purpose of Tim's Pronunciation Workshop? A) To teach how English is really spoken. B) To discuss his late-night adventures. C) To show off his shed. D) To interview people in London. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To teach how English is really spoken. 13. What is intrusion in connected speech? A) A sound is changed. B) A vowel is reduced. C) A sound is deleted. D) A sound is inserted between two vowels. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A sound is inserted between two vowels. 14. What are the two main modifications of words in connected speech? A) Phonetic and phonological modifications. B) Lexical and grammatical modifications. C) Segmental and suprasegmental modifications. D) Syntactic and semantic modifications. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Segmental and suprasegmental modifications. 15. Cats or dogs? How would you say it? A) Cats or dogs?. B) Catserdogs?. C) Catsdogs. D) Cats and dogs?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Catserdogs?. 16. Linking is a way of joining the pronunciation of two words. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 17. The English tone can be classified into ..... A) Simple and Complex. B) Moving and Level. C) Rising and Falling. D) Rise-fall and Fall-rise. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simple and Complex. 18. What happens in "don't you" ? A) Elision. B) Flapping. C) Regressive assimilation. D) Reciprocal assimilation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reciprocal assimilation. 19. How many written forms of compound word? A) 4. B) 3. C) 1. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3. 20. When speaking, we can often link a word with another word that is ..... A) Anywhere in the same sentence. B) Directly before or after it. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Directly before or after it. 21. What is intonation in speech? A) The clarity of pronunciation. B) The speed of speaking. C) The volume of speech. D) The modification of voice pitch when producing connected speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The modification of voice pitch when producing connected speech. 22. What aspect of connected speech is in the following sentence? "Who is?" A) Elision. B) Assimilation. C) Contraction. D) Linking. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Linking. 23. The following example is an example of which process?Social life $\rightarrow$ socialife A) Catenation or Linking. B) Assimilation. C) Intrusion. D) Elision. E) Geminates. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Geminates. 24. Kenny has gone to France and back (8 syllables)How many stressed syllables are there? A) 4. B) 5. C) 2. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4. 25. Assimilation affects: A) Only vowels. B) Only consonants. C) Usually adjacent consonants. D) Intonation patterns. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Usually adjacent consonants. 26. Which consonants can be dropped?Could you hand me that pen? A) /d/ in could. B) /d/ in hand. C) /t/ in that. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) /d/ in hand. 27. Give an example of vowel reduction in connected speech. A) Going to the store. B) The largest lake in the world. C) Law and order. D) Read and write. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Going to the store. 28. What is linking in connected speech? A) Changing one sound into another. B) Adding a sound to break words. C) Joining a final sound of one word to the first sound of the next. D) Deleting a consonant sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Joining a final sound of one word to the first sound of the next. 29. The word piano has ..... syllable(s). A) Two. B) One. C) Three. D) Four. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Three. 30. What is the connected pronunciation of "turn off" ? A) Tur noff. B) Turno ff. C) Turnoff. D) Tu rnoff. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Turnoff. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesConnected Speech Quiz 1Connected Speech Quiz 2Connected Speech Quiz 3Connected Speech Quiz 4Connected Speech Quiz 5Connected Speech Quiz 6Connected Speech Quiz 7Connected Speech Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books