This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Test Prep > A Level > A Level English – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books A Level English Quiz 3 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 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. 2. What is a characteristic of Infographics/images? A) Lack of graphical elements. B) Absence of facial expressions. C) Complex language. D) Use of negative space. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Use of negative space. 3. What is the modifier here? I walked along the icy road. A) Walked. B) Road. C) Along. D) Icy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Icy. 4. What are words which are shortened? A) Idioms. B) Clippings. C) Acronyms. D) Collocations. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Clippings. 5. 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. 6. What is the head word here? I love my fluffy slippers which are pink? A) Love. B) Fluffy. C) Slippers. D) Pink. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slippers. 7. 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 level researcher. D) Between sea level. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Betweenexpert she. 8. 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. 9. A word or a phrase in which the figurative meaning is different from the literal meaning. A) Jargon. B) Conventions. C) Idiomatic expressions. D) Collocations. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiomatic expressions. 10. The sudden loud noise ..... the audience, even though no real danger existed. A) Terrified. B) Amused. C) Comforted. D) Relaxed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Terrified. 11. 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. 12. 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. 13. 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. 14. 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) Buy. C) Hungry. D) Quickly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hungry. 15. The company is struggling to remain ..... in an increasingly competitive market. A) Relevant. B) Redundant. C) Obsolete. D) Trivial. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Relevant. 16. What is the term for the habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word with a frequency greater than chance? A) Idioms. B) Acronyms. C) Collocations. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Collocations. 17. 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) Phatic communion. C) Topic shift. D) False start. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Topic shift. 18. 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. 19. 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) Convergence. B) Divergence. C) CAT. D) Widening. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Convergence. 20. What is a stative verb? A) A verb that conveys action. B) A verb that is found in the same position in every sentence. C) A verb conveys a state of being. D) A verb that needs an object after it. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A verb conveys a state of being. 21. 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. 22. What is the role of adverbs in a sentence? A) Modify prepositions. B) Modify nouns. C) Modify verbs. D) Modify conjunctions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Modify verbs. 23. What is the term for new words that are created by joining two words together? A) Collocations. B) Idioms. C) Acronyms. D) Compounding. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Compounding. 24. In the sentence, "The boy waited for the bus" which word is the verb? A) Boy. B) Bus. C) The. D) Waited. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Waited. 25. "Who are you?" is what type of sentence? A) Declarative. B) Imperative. C) Interrogative. D) Exclamative. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Interrogative. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTest Prep QuizzesGrammar QuizzesA Level English Quiz 1A Level English Quiz 2A Level English Quiz 4A 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