This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Test Prep > A Level > A Level English – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books A Level English Quiz 2 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What tense is the verb in this sentence:'John was running as fast as he could' A) Past continuous. B) Simple present. C) Simple past. D) Present continuous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Past continuous. 2. How many marks are available for this question? A) 40. B) 30. C) 25. D) 20. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 40. 3. What is the function of the opening phrase in the sentence? A) To introduce the plot. B) To give an opinion. C) To describe the reviewer. D) To add background information about how the play was created. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To add background information about how the play was created. 4. Sibilance is what repeated sounds? A) Ff Vv. B) Tt Dd. C) Gg Cc. D) Ss Zz. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ss Zz. 5. When nouns are compared using comparatives and superlatives it is called A) Correcting. B) Assessing. C) Grading. D) Marking. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grading. 6. What type of adjective is the answer to Question 4? A) Comparative. B) Superlative. C) Predicative. D) Attributive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Predicative. 7. Which of these sounds would occur in LABIAL PLOSIVE alliteration? A) S, Z. B) B, P. C) T, D. D) FF, G. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B, P. 8. What best describes the political viewpoint of The Guardian newspaper? A) Right-wing. B) Communist. C) Left-wing. D) Centrist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Left-wing. 9. What is the function of the passive voice? A) To reduce the importance of the agent. B) To emphasize the agent. C) To add emphasis to the verb. D) To modify the subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To reduce the importance of the agent. 10. When we are certain about a situation, we are assertive in both in our manner and our speech, using constructions to show that something is definite. This is called ..... A) Positive Politeness. B) High Modality. C) Adverbial Phrases. D) Discourse Markers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) High Modality. 11. True or false:the context of the utterances ..... the time, place, role of speakers, purpose ..... are fundamental to their choice of language. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 12. What is the role of conjunctions? A) All of the above. B) Join words. C) Join phrases. D) Join clauses. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All of the above. 13. What is used to replace a noun or proper noun? A) Register. B) Adjective. C) Pronoun. D) Noun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pronoun. 14. According to Lui, which of the following is not a rule of power? A) Power compounds. B) Power is not static. C) Power is like water. D) Power is corruptible. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Power is corruptible. 15. What is a distinguishing feature of a Home page? A) Use of social media. B) Lack of a lead story. C) Contact information. D) Absence of a masthead. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Contact information. 16. What is the meaning of Covert Prestige? A) A secret, arcane language or jargon used by a particular group or section of a community. B) An informal, context-bound use of language, with a reduced semantic and syntactic range. C) Refers to a dialect used by a culturally powerful group. D) Delivery of high social status through use of non-standard forms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Delivery of high social status through use of non-standard forms. 17. Words which locate the conversation in a particular space or context which a non-participant would not be able to make sense of is called ..... A) Phatic Communion. B) Positive Politeness. C) Deixis. D) Discourse Markers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deixis. 18. What is the subject of this sentence:'Suddenly, the Whomping Willow threw Harry and Ron to the ground' A) Suddenly. B) The Whomping Willow. C) Threw. D) Harry and Ron. E) To the ground. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Whomping Willow. 19. Which of the following is a spatial preposition? A) By. B) During. C) Because. D) After. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) By. 20. What is the meaning of Other-related comment? A) Linked utterances produced by different people in a conversation. B) An auxiliary verb + a negating participle + a pronoun. Can be a sign of speaker support, uncertainty or request for clarification. C) Focusing on the listener. D) An expression where the meaning of the whole conveys more than the meaning of the parts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Focusing on the listener. 21. What does Paper 1 Section B assess you on? A) CLA AO1 and AO2. B) CLA AO1 and AO3. C) Language Change AO1 and AO2. D) CLA AO2. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) CLA AO1 and AO2. 22. What is a characteristic of Infographics/images? A) Use of negative space. B) Absence of facial expressions. C) Lack of graphical elements. D) Complex language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Use of negative space. 23. What is the modifier here? I walked along the icy road. A) Road. B) Walked. C) Icy. D) Along. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Icy. 24. What are words which are shortened? A) Collocations. B) Idioms. C) Clippings. D) Acronyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Clippings. 25. Aitchison's "Crumbling Castle" view argues that: A) Language is inherently unstable. B) Language must be preserved as if it were once perfect. C) Language spreads like infection. D) Language naturally changes over time. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Language must be preserved as if it were once perfect. 26. What is the head word here? I love my fluffy slippers which are pink? A) Love. B) Pink. C) Slippers. D) Fluffy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slippers. 27. Where does a comma and conjunction go in this sentence?Nicole Hernandez Hammer is a climate expert she is also a sea level researcher. A) Betweenclimate expert. B) Betweenexpert she. C) Between sea level. D) Between level researcher. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Betweenexpert she. 28. What is a minor sentence? A) A sentence that is grammatically incomplete. B) A sentence that is grammatically incorrect. C) A sentence that is very short. D) A sentence that is very long. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A sentence that is grammatically incomplete. 29. A word or a phrase in which the figurative meaning is different from the literal meaning. A) Collocations. B) Conventions. C) Idiomatic expressions. D) Jargon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiomatic expressions. 30. The sudden loud noise ..... the audience, even though no real danger existed. A) Terrified. B) Amused. C) Relaxed. D) Comforted. 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