This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Test Prep > A Level > A Level English – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books A Level English Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Adverbs usually end in ..... A) Ly. B) S. C) Ing. D) Ey. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ly. 2. Choose the commonest collocate for 'break the ..... ' A) Vase. B) Window. C) Law. D) Egg. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Law. 3. The type of conversation which is redundant in terms of meaning but socially significant. Also known as ice-breakers, and usually are used to initiate conversation. A) Voiced pause. B) Topic shift. C) Phatic communion. D) Back-channel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Phatic communion. 4. What are the linguistic labels we give to people, places, or things? A) Superlative. B) Noun. C) Register. D) Adjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Noun. 5. What is a key element of an Internet Article? A) Use of humour. B) Voice. C) Absence of call to action. D) Lack of newsworthiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Voice. 6. What is the meaning of Idiom? A) Multi-word utterances that are stored and retrieved from memory (frequent in commentaries etc). B) Linked utterances produced by different people in a conversation. C) An auxiliary verb + a negating participle + a pronoun. Can be a sign of speaker support, uncertainty or request for clarification. D) An expression where the meaning of the whole conveys more than the meaning of the parts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An expression where the meaning of the whole conveys more than the meaning of the parts. 7. What is the meaning of Vague expressions? A) Using deliberately non-committal expressions. B) An expression where the meaning of the whole conveys more than the meaning of the parts. C) A strategy used to avoid directness or to minimise a potentially face-threatening act. Often use modal forms. D) Words that add specific context (often time/place)needed for the whole utterance to make sense. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Using deliberately non-committal expressions. 8. Which phrase uses an intransitive verb? A) The found the lost ring. B) The children laughed. C) I carried the baby. D) We can make a Christmas cake. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The children laughed. 9. The idea that language reflects thoughts is ..... A) Linguisitic determinism. B) Linguistic reflectionism. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Linguisitic determinism. 10. What is graphology? A) The mathematics behind a text. B) A text's design and visual appearance. C) A text's numerical appearance. D) The structure of an article. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A text's design and visual appearance. 11. Which sentence below is active voice? A) A servant must obey his master. B) A master must be obeyed by his servant. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A servant must obey his master. 12. What is a single unit of meaning? A) Phoneme. B) Morpheme. C) Grapheme. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Morpheme. 13. When discussing feedback features, non-verbal responses 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: B) Facial expressions and body language, for example smiling and hand gestures. 14. What ..... people to take action during emergencies is still widely studied by psychologists. A) Distributes. B) Prompts. C) Expands. D) Delays. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prompts. 15. Which is the headword in this phrase:'exclusive free bonus features'? A) Features. B) Bonus. C) Free. D) Exclusive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Features. 16. When discussing feedback features, back-channel is ..... 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: D) Noises, for example, mmmmm and ohhhhh. 17. What is the purpose of an Editorial? A) To justify the coverage of a topic. B) To state the writer's opinion. C) To generate feedback from the audience. D) To provide a call to action. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To justify the coverage of a topic. 18. What tense is this? I will have gone. A) Future perfect. B) Past perfect. C) Simple future. D) Past progressive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Future perfect. 19. Which AOs are assessed in Q4? A) AO5 (30 marks). B) AO2 (10 marks) and AO5 (20 marks). C) AO2 (20 marks) and AO5 (10 marks). D) AO1 (10 marks) and AO2 (20 marks). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) AO2 (20 marks) and AO5 (10 marks). 20. What is the meaning of Dialect? A) Distinctive vocabulary (or grammar) associated with a group. B) A conventional and routine expression in colloquial communication, sometimes metaphorical. C) Signals a shift in conversation and topic areas; can also mark a counter-argument. D) Words that add specific context (often time/place)needed for the whole utterance to make sense. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Distinctive vocabulary (or grammar) associated with a group. 21. She avoided the dessert because it seemed too ..... for a late-night meal. A) Mild. B) Plain. C) Rich. D) Light. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rich. 22. True or false:Register is related to the formality/informality of the language. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 23. The sudden power failure ..... the entire production process. A) Disrupted. B) Accelerated. C) Facilitated. D) Reinforced. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Disrupted. 24. Adjusting our speech to be distinct from others (usually to indicate greater status, like a boss to an employee) A) Divergence. B) Convergence. C) Narrowing. D) Widening. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Divergence. 25. TEXT used to be a NOUN but is now also a VERB. This is called ..... A) Verbification. B) Nounifciation. C) Substratum theory. D) Semantic difference. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verbification. 26. How many questions are there in A-Level English? A) 60. B) 70. C) 80. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 80. 27. Her argument was supported by ..... evidence rather than personal opinion. A) Fictional. B) Biased. C) Anecdotal. D) Empirical. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Empirical. 28. Which of the following is a key question when analyzing discourse? A) What are the implied meanings of the text?. B) How is the text organized?. C) What is the relationship between writer and audience?. D) What are the phonological features present?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How is the text organized?. 29. What is a syndetic list? A) A list of words or phrases which are joined by a coordinating conjunction. B) A list of words or phrases which does not contain a coordinating conjunction. C) A phrase or clause with brackets providing additional non-essential information, separated from the main clause. D) Any non-standard use of language use such as dialect, young children or non-native English speakers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A list of words or phrases which are joined by a coordinating conjunction. 30. Vygotsky argued that children learn language through: A) Reinforcement alone. B) Imitation only. C) Interaction and social guidance. D) Memorisation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Interaction and social guidance. 31. What is the term for assigning an already existing word to a new syntactic category? A) Conversion. B) Acronyms. C) Collocations. D) Idioms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conversion. 32. Which of the below words have been semantically borrowed from French? A) Mud, dirt, sand. B) Sky, skirt, skull. C) Hearty, welcome, love. D) Parliament, sovereign, marriage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parliament, sovereign, marriage. 33. By the time the conference begins, the team ..... the final report. A) Has finished. B) Finishes. C) Will have finished. D) Will finish. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Will have finished. 34. A words that has a similar meaning to another A) Synonym. B) Antonym. C) Euphemism. D) Dysphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synonym. 35. If you found yourself applying linking ideas in the texts to wider linguistic issues, which A0 would this support? A) A01. B) A02. C) A03. D) A04. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A03. 36. Customers were shocked to discover that the luxury watches they bought were actually ..... A) Imported. B) Defective. C) Counterfeit. D) Second-hand. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Counterfeit. 37. According to Brown, children acquire grammatical functions: A) Randomly. B) In predictable stages. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In predictable stages. 38. Skinner viewed language learning as: A) Innate. B) Imitated and reinforced. C) Socially scaffolded. D) Genetically predetermined. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imitated and reinforced. 39. Complete the sentence. English is the most ..... in the world. A) Linguistically diverse. B) Difficult language to learn. C) Widely spoken second language. D) Most popular accent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Widely spoken second language. 40. What are the labels used to describe an action? A) Verbs. B) Adverbs. C) Acronyms. D) Prepositions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verbs. 41. What is a post-modified noun phrase? A) A noun phrase that modifies an adjective. B) A noun phrase that comes before the main noun. C) A noun phrase that modifies a verb. D) A noun phrase that comes after the main noun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A noun phrase that comes after the main noun. 42. Adjectives are turned into comparatives by adding A) -est. B) -er. C) -s. D) -ive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) -er. 43. I can't join you this evening because I ..... finish a project by tomorrow morning. A) Won't. B) Am. C) Will. D) Am going to. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Will. 44. What is the meaning of Diagraph? A) Representing the sound of a diphthong or single vowel (as in feat). B) The study of the sound system in the language and the effects of its particular features. C) Refers to a dialect used by a culturally powerful group. D) A sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves towards another. Known also as a gliding vowel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Representing the sound of a diphthong or single vowel (as in feat). 45. Bellugi studied development of: A) Adjectives. B) Pragmatics. C) Negatives and pronouns. D) Lexical borrowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Negatives and pronouns. 46. True or false:An effective analysis simply pinpoints a language feature using correct terminology and gives an example from the text. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 47. What grammatical form is this example:'Every creature is called to some one thing'? A) Imperative form. B) Interrogative form. C) Active voice. D) Passive voice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Passive voice. 48. Which of the following is a simple present tense sentence? A) The children will walk to school. B) The children have walked to school. C) The children walked to school. D) The children walk to school. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The children walk to school. 49. What is a pronoun used for? A) To replace nouns. B) To replace adverbs. C) To replace verbs. D) To replace adjectives. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To replace nouns. 50. BONUS:Which Prescriptivist coined the phrase 'Proper English' in 2009? A) Jean Aitcheson. B) John Edwards. C) Jonathan Swift. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Edwards. 51. How much do you have to spend to register A-Level English test? A) 50 Baht. B) 100 Baht. C) 150 Baht. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 100 Baht. 52. Deborah Cameron believes PC causes anxiety A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 53. What sort of phrase is this? In the middle of the day A) Noun phrase. B) Adverbial phrase. C) Verb phrase. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adverbial phrase. 54. What does the phrase "largest ever national delivery" contribute to the meaning? A) It introduces an opinion. B) It emphasises the scale and significance of the project. C) It provides a plot summary. D) It shows that the review is informal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It emphasises the scale and significance of the project. 55. What is the function of determiners? A) Add clarity to an adjective. B) Add clarity to a noun. C) Add clarity to a verb. D) Add clarity to an adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Add clarity to a noun. 56. What part of speech provides greater description to a word, phrase, clause, or a sentence? A) Adverbs. B) Verbs. C) Prepositions. D) Acronyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adverbs. 57. Sapir Whorf believe in linguistic reflectionism A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 58. Adverbs modify words. In the following sentences they are indicated by italics. Which one of the following adverbs modifies the adjective in the sentence? A) The mural was painted particularly carefully. B) Certainly, the work will be completed on time. C) The house was very pretty. D) The car drove slowly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The house was very pretty. 59. What is the term for the invention of totally new words? A) Collocations. B) Acronyms. C) Idioms. D) Coinage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Coinage. 60. Which AOs are you assessed on for Q3 and how many marks are they worth? A) AO1 (20 marks), AO3 (10 marks) and AO4 (10 marks). B) AO1 (10 marks), AO3 (15 marks) and AO4 (15 marks). C) AO1 (15 marks) and AO4 (25 marks). D) AO4 (40 marks). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) AO1 (10 marks), AO3 (15 marks) and AO4 (15 marks). ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTest Prep QuizzesGrammar QuizzesA Level English Quiz 1A Level English Quiz 2A Level English Quiz 3A Level English Quiz 4A Level English Quiz 6 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books