This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Test Prep > A Level > A Level English – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books A Level English Quiz 4 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 'deafening silence' is an example of A) Pun. B) Oxymoron. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 2. In the phrase "an Eclipse movement spearheading ..... ", what is "spearheading" ? A) An adverb. B) A main verb. C) A determiner. D) A present participle used as a post-modifier. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A present participle used as a post-modifier. 3. What is non-standard grammar? A) Two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling. B) Any non-standard use of language use such as dialect, young children or non-native English speakers. C) A range of spelling and lettering to reflect volume/accent/sound substitution. D) The conventional spelling system of a language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Any non-standard use of language use such as dialect, young children or non-native English speakers. 4. What is orthography? A) The conventional spelling system of a language. B) Any non-standard use of language use such as dialect, young children or non-native English speakers. C) A range of spelling and lettering to reflect volume/accent/sound substitution. D) Two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The conventional spelling system of a language. 5. There are 3 sections in A-Level English? A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 6. When you find yourself looking for similarities and differences, which AO is this testing? A) A02. B) A01. C) A04. D) A03. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A04. 7. After weeks of honest communication, there was a noticeable ..... improvement in their teamwork. A) Uncertain. B) Positive. C) Negative. D) Disastrous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Positive. 8. How does the sentence help fulfil the informative mode of an online review? A) By giving personal reactions. B) By using emotive language. C) By providing factual details about creators and context. D) By summarising audience responses. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By providing factual details about creators and context. 9. What is a word governing a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element? A) Acronyms. B) Verbs. C) Prepositions. D) Adverbs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prepositions. 10. What style of essay are you required to write for Q1/2? A) Opinion article. B) Evaluative. C) Analytical. D) Discursive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Evaluative. 11. What is an example of a modal verb? A) Crossed. B) Hope. C) Should. D) Most. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Should. 12. The uncontrolled ..... of insects during the summer caused serious damage to crops. A) Metabolism. B) Incubation. C) Evolution. D) Breeding. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Breeding. 13. What is the purpose of a comma and conjunction A) Words that help connect or link ideas, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs. B) To combine 2 simple sentences into 1 compound sentence. C) To build suspense. D) To show emotion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To combine 2 simple sentences into 1 compound sentence. 14. Your written expression, accuracy and SPaG are assessed under ..... A) A04. B) A01. C) A03. D) A02. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A01. 15. David Crystal is best described as a: A) Prescriptivist. B) Descriptivist. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Descriptivist. 16. If you wanted to learn about the relationship between language, gender, and trans identities, which podcast episode should you listen to? A) Language, Gender and Trans Identities. B) The Language of Lying. C) Romani Language. D) How Language Works. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Language, Gender and Trans Identities. 17. What are the nature of the two texts that you get in Paper 1 Section A? A) Two texts from 1600s to 1900s. B) One contemporary text, one older text from 1700s onwards. C) Two contemporary texts. D) One contemporary text, one older text from 1600s onwards. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) One contemporary text, one older text from 1600s onwards. 18. Discourse to get things done with a specific purpose is called A) Back-channel. B) Transactional language. C) Holding the conversational floor. D) Phatic communion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transactional language. 19. The scientist warned that ignoring climate data would have ..... consequences. A) Negligible. B) Irreversible. C) Manageable. D) Temporary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irreversible. 20. Is this a clause or a phrase? The waves towering over me A) Clause. B) Phrase. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Phrase. 21. What is the meaning of Discourse? A) The study of the sound system in the language and the effects of its particular features. B) An evidence-based approach to language that describes, in an objective manner, how language is being used. C) A unit of language longer than a single sentence. To study discourse is to analyse the use of spoken or written language in a social context. D) Delivery of high social status through use of non-standard forms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A unit of language longer than a single sentence. To study discourse is to analyse the use of spoken or written language in a social context. 22. When discussing feedback features, vocal expressions are ..... A) For example, "sure, " "absolutely, " "really, " "I know.". B) Facial expressions and body language, for example smiling and hand gestures. C) Giggling, sighing, tutting, oohing, aahhing. D) Noises, for example, mmmmm and ohhhhh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Giggling, sighing, tutting, oohing, aahhing. 23. What sort of sentence is this? I looked up and I saw a bird. A) Complex. B) Simple. C) Interrogative. D) Compound. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Compound. 24. Which are the 2 adverbial phrases in this sentence:'The car flew for many hours above the rooftops A) The car. B) Flew. C) For many hours and above the rooftops. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) For many hours and above the rooftops. 25. Which of these sounds would occur in DENTAL PLOSIVE alliteration? A) B, P. B) SS, Z. C) M, G. D) T, D. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) T, D. 26. What is missing in this sentence?A nice skatepark a block away. A) Noun. B) Subject. C) Verb. D) Adjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verb. 27. The project is so demanding that it requires everyone ..... overtime. A) To work. B) Worked. C) Working. D) Work. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To work. 28. Which of these is a co-ordinating conjunction despite although and while A) Despite. B) Although. C) And. D) While. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) And. 29. He spoke with such ..... confidence that everyone believed him immediately. A) Persuasive. B) Hesitant. C) Misleading. D) Reluctant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Persuasive. 30. Words and phrases which modify-add to-adjectives. Convey the attitudes and values of the speaker and so they intensify their feelings and opinions. A) Positive Politeness. B) Conversation Increasers. C) Adverbial Phrases. D) Discourse Markers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adverbial Phrases. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTest Prep QuizzesGrammar QuizzesA Level English Quiz 1A Level English Quiz 2A Level English Quiz 3A Level English Quiz 5A Level English Quiz 6A Level English Quiz 7A Level English Quiz 8A Level English Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books