1. Firstly, to which of these language groups does English belong?
a) Baltic
b) Romance
c) Germanic
d) Slavonic
The correct answer is c) Germanic
2. In the sentence 'I took my big brown cat to the vet yesterday', which of the following does not appear?
a) Adjective
b) Preposition
c) Adverb
d) Conjunction
The correct answer is d) Conjunction
3. True or false: English has no inflections for grammatical case.
a) True
b) False
The correct answer is b) False
4. What is defined as 'the study of sentence structure'?
a) Morphology
b) Semantics
c) Phonology
d) Syntax
The correct answer is d) Syntax
5. Three of these languages do not have definite articles. Which one does have a structure that serves the purpose of a definite article?
a) Russian
b) Finnish
c) Latin
d) Swedish
The correct answer is d) Swedish
6. In dialectology, what is the line on a map called which divides areas with different forms of a word?
a) Isobar
b) Isogloss--
c) Isotherm
d) Isomer
The correct answer is b) Isogloss
7. The sounds of a language change over time. English spelling does not always reflect this change: how was the 'gh' in 'night' originally pronounced?
a) Like German 'ch' in 'ich', but voiced
b) Like English 'ch' in 'church'
c) Like English 'y' in 'yellow'
d) Like German 'ch' in 'ich'
The correct answer is d) Like German 'ch' in 'ich'
8. Which of these words describes the changing of the form of a verb in order to reflect person, number, tense and mood?
a) Declension
b) Inversion
c) Subordination
d) Conjugation
The correct answer is d) Conjugation
9. The combination of sounds 'ms-' is not acceptable as the beginning of a word or syllable in English. In which of these languages is it acceptable?
a) Dutch
b) French
c) Russian
d) Finnish
The correct answer is c) Russian
10. And finally... Old Norse is almost the same as which modern Scandinavian language?
a) Danish
b) Norwegian
c) Icelandic
d) Swedish
The correct answer is c) Icelandic
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