SLO1 – WGU UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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SLO1 – WGU UPDATED Exam Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Syntax - Correct Answer- Part of grammar that represents a speakers knowledge of sentences
and their structures
Rules of Syntax - Correct Answer- Understanding how to combine words into phrases;
phrases into sentences
Rules of Syntax:...
SLO1 – WGU UPDATED Exam Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Syntax - Correct Answer- Part of grammar that represents a speakers knowledge of sentences
and their structures
Rules of Syntax - Correct Answer- Understanding how to combine words into phrases;
phrases into sentences
Rules of Syntax: Correct Word Order - Correct Answer- Understanding grammatical vs.
ungrammatical
Rules of Syntax: Meaning - Correct Answer- Understanding the meaning of a particular
groups of words and how to arrange the group of words
Syntactic Categories - Correct Answer- A group of expressions that can substitute for one
another without the loss of grammaticiality.
Noun Phrase (NP) - Correct Answer- The name of a syntactic category that consists of proper
names, pronouns, and all other expressions with the same syntactic distribution.
Determiner - Correct Answer- words that introduce noun phrases, articles such as "A, The"
Verb Phrase - Correct Answer- The name of a syntactic category that is always a verb; (some
times a preposition will come before a verb)
Demonstrative - Correct Answer- this, that, these, those
every, each - counting words
Auxiliary (verb) - Correct Answer- have, had, be, was, were [to be verbs]
,Modals - Correct Answer- can, could, shall, should, will, would, may, might, must - verbs that
express mood or tense
subject - Correct Answer- who or what the sentence is about
direct object - Correct Answer- receives the action of the verb
Dialect - Correct Answer- a form of language spoken by people in a particular region or
group
Pidgin - Correct Answer- Language that may develop when two groups of people with
different languages meet. The pidgin has some characteristics of each language.
Creole - Correct Answer- When children learn the pidgin language as their first language
accent - Correct Answer- the manner in which people speak and the way words are
pronounced in different parts of the world
Prestige Variety of a Language - Correct Answer- The dominant or standard dialect of a
region.
America = Standard American English
(most people speak a dialect, usually no one speaks the "prestige")
"The Standard" - SAE - Correct Answer- What everyone else is saying.
Vague "language" and not easily defined as dialects
The particular language that has social functions which is decided by the elite, wealthy,
influential, and popular
Slang - Correct Answer- informal language; everyone uses but difficult to define
Register - Correct Answer- Code Switching
You speak differently at work, with family, with friends.
, Euphemism - Correct Answer- An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is
considered unpleasant.
Die vs. Pass Away
language and sexism - Correct Answer- Male words = empowering
Female words = demeaning
Morphology - Correct Answer- The study of words
Morphemes - Correct Answer- internal word structures
morph = ology
derivational morphemes - Correct Answer- prefixes and suffixes added to root words to create
derived words
(bound morpheme)
inflectional morphemes - Correct Answer- suffix added to a word
shows tense, number, possession, or comparision
ending of word
EX: -ing, -s, -es, -est
Represents the relationship between difference parts of the sentence
John is dancing = now
John danced = past
(bound morpheme)
bound morpheme - Correct Answer- CANNOT stand alone
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