ALTA Exam UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
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ALTA Exam UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Three Layers of the English Language - CORRECT ANSWER- Anglo-Saxon, Latin, and
Greek
Percentage of English Language that is Anglo-Saxon - CORRECT ANSWER- 20-25%
Percentage of the English Language that is Latin - CORRECT ANSWER- 60%
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ALTA Exam UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Three Layers of the English Language - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Anglo-Saxon, Latin, and
Greek
Percentage of English Language that is Anglo-Saxon - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 20-25%
Percentage of the English Language that is Latin - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 60%
Percentage of the English Language that is Greek - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 10-12%
Characteristics of Anglo-Saxon words - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Short, common, every
day, down to earth; many have non-phonetic spellings
Examples of Anglo-Saxon words - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Number names, names of
farm animals
Anglo-saxon - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- words that begin with wr, kn, and wr
Latin words - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- technical and sophisticated words
Latin words - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Schwa sounds are often found in these words
Latin words - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Examples: audience, contradict, disruptive, retract,
survival
Greek words - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- specialized words for science
Greek words - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- combining forms
, Greek words - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- examples: atmosphere, chromosome, thermometer
Number of syllable types - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- six
4 characteristics of a letter - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- name, shape, sound, feel
This is the only stable characteristic of a letter - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- name
Identifiers to determining reading/spelling situations - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- ASAP:
Accent, syllable, adjacent letters, position
Letters in English - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 26
Sounds in English - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 44
Three components of language - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- form, content, and use
Form (language) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Includes the observable features of language:
phonology, morphology, syntax
Syntax - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- System of rules that directs comprehension and
production of sentences
Content (language) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Semantics
Semantics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Meaning of words and the relationship between and
among words as they are used to represent our knowledge of the world
Use (language) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Pragmantics
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