This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Test Prep > A Level > A Level English – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books A Level English Quiz 3 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Read the following adjacency pair:Person A:Your phone is over here. Person B:I know.This is an example of a ..... adjacency pair. A) Complaint $\rightarrow$ excuse/remedy. B) Inform $\rightarrow$ acknowledge. C) Offer $\rightarrow$ acceptance/rejection. D) Call/beckon $\rightarrow$ response. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inform $\rightarrow$ acknowledge. 2. In the superlative Smallest, "est" is a A) Prefix. B) Suffix. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Suffix. 3. What is the meaning of Accomodation? 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) The downgrading or depreciation of a word's meaning, as when a word with a positive sense develops a negative. D) Where a speaker adapts to another speaker's accent, dialect or sociolect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Where a speaker adapts to another speaker's accent, dialect or sociolect. 4. Which is the adjective in this sentence?The boy was hungry so he ran quickly to the stall to buy a sandwich. A) Ran. B) Hungry. C) Quickly. D) Buy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hungry. 5. The company is struggling to remain ..... in an increasingly competitive market. A) Obsolete. B) Redundant. C) Relevant. D) Trivial. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Relevant. 6. What is the term for the habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word with a frequency greater than chance? A) Collocations. B) Euphemism. C) Idioms. D) Acronyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Collocations. 7. Read the conversation below:Person A:I have to remember to buy dog food at the store.Person B:Speaking of pets, have you heard about the dog rescue my friend started?This is an example of ..... A) Repairing. B) Topic shift. C) Phatic communion. D) False start. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Topic shift. 8. How can a student demonstrate that they have annotated texts in detail, as required by the checklist? A) By making notes, highlighting, and adding comments to the texts. B) By leaving the texts blank. C) By only reading the texts. D) By summarizing the texts in a separate notebook. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) By making notes, highlighting, and adding comments to the texts. 9. A type of linguistic change in which language comes to structurally resemble one another as a result of prolonged language contact and mutual interference A) CAT. B) Widening. C) Convergence. D) Divergence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Convergence. 10. What is a stative verb? A) A verb conveys a state of being. B) A verb that is found in the same position in every sentence. C) A verb that conveys action. D) A verb that needs an object after it. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A verb conveys a state of being. 11. Adjuncts are adverbs that modify verbs. They are indicated by italics in the following sentences. In which of the following sentences does the adverb modify the place in which the verb is being done? A) I always visit my grandmother on Sundays. B) You must go to school now. C) Go there to get a coat. D) He was sleeping well. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Go there to get a coat. 12. What is the role of adverbs in a sentence? A) Modify nouns. B) Modify prepositions. C) Modify conjunctions. D) Modify verbs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Modify verbs. 13. What is the term for new words that are created by joining two words together? A) Compounding. B) Collocations. C) Idioms. D) Acronyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compounding. 14. In the sentence, "The boy waited for the bus" which word is the verb? A) Waited. B) Bus. C) Boy. D) The. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Waited. 15. "Who are you?" is what type of sentence? A) Interrogative. B) Imperative. C) Declarative. D) Exclamative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Interrogative. 16. Which of the following definitions matches the term "Political Power" ? A) The power someone has because of the social group they belong to. B) Sometimes referred to as a specific subdivision of political power. C) Power that is held because of an individual's occupation or role. D) Power held by people or groups conferred on them by the law. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Power held by people or groups conferred on them by the law. 17. What is a type of verb that shows necessity, prohibition, permission, obligation, and ability? A) Intransitive verb. B) Modal verb. C) Auxiliary verb. D) Transitive verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Modal verb. 18. What is the type of speech that modifies the action in a sentence? A) Noun. B) Verb. C) Adverb. D) Adjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adverb. 19. Which structural element is typically found in a Speech? A) Salutation. B) Byline. C) Standfirst. D) Masthead. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Salutation. 20. Which AOs are you assessed on for Q1/2 and how many marks are they worth? A) AO1 (20 marks) and AO2 (10 marks). B) AO1 (10 marks) and AO3 (20 marks). C) AO2 (10 marks) and AO3 (15 marks). D) AO1 (10 marks) and AO2 (20 marks). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) AO1 (10 marks) and AO2 (20 marks). 21. What key term is this a definition for? The speaker will offer a conventional piece of speech and the receiver will reply accordingly A) False Starts. B) Turn Taking. C) Adjacency Pairs. D) Question and Answer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adjacency Pairs. 22. Who is usually the text producer? A) The person who paid for the text. B) The person who read the text. C) The person who wrote the text. D) The person who choose the text. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The person who wrote the text. 23. For many years, the belief that the sun revolved around the Earth ..... in ancient cultures. A) Predominated. B) Collapsed. C) Advanced. D) Circulated. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Predominated. 24. The politician's statement was intentionally ..... to avoid controversy. A) Transparent. B) Explicit. C) Sincere. D) Ambiguous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ambiguous. 25. A term acquires a less broad meaning (i.e. meat used to mean any sort of food, but now refers only to food of an animal origin). A) Narrowing. B) Shortening. C) Widening. D) Pejoration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Narrowing. 26. Where would a semicolon ( ; ) go in this sentence:In 2022 Daniel Mancina broke the record for the longest 50-50 grind on a skateboard he lost his sight at 15. A) Between 2022 Daniel. B) Betweenrecord for. C) Betweenskateboard he. D) Between50-50 grind. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Betweenskateboard he. 27. I ..... you a message later, but I ..... be able to reply immediately. A) Send, don't. B) Am sending, don't. C) Will send, won't. D) Sent, didn't. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Will send, won't. 28. True or false:It is not necessary to relate what you are commenting on (like conversations) back to your perceived awareness of the purpose and the context of the conversation. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 29. Which sentence type best describes the following sentence:"Boris Johnson is a toerag." A) Exclamative. B) Imperative. C) Declarative. D) Interrogative. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Declarative. 30. He denied ..... the confidential files without permission. A) Access. B) Accessed. C) Accessing. D) To access. 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