SLO1 WGU CERTIFICATION SCRIPT 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
● Syntax. Answer: Part of grammar that represents a speakers knowledge of sentences and
their structures
● Rules of Syntax. Answer: Understanding how to combine words into phrases; phrases into
sentences
● Rules of Syntax: Correct Word Order. Answer: Understanding grammatical vs.
ungrammatical
● Rules of Syntax: Meaning. Answer: Understanding the meaning of a particular groups of
words and how to arrange the group of words
● Syntactic Categories. Answer: A group of expressions that can substitute for one another
without the loss of grammaticiality.
● Noun Phrase (NP). Answer: The name of a syntactic category that consists of proper
names, pronouns, and all other expressions with the same syntactic distribution.
● Determiner. Answer: words that introduce noun phrases, articles such as "A, The"
● Verb Phrase. Answer: The name of a syntactic category that is always a verb; (some times
a preposition will come before a verb)
● Demonstrative. Answer: this, that, these, those every, each - counting words
● Auxiliary (verb). Answer: have, had, be, was, were [to be verbs]
● Modals. Answer: can, could, shall, should, will, would, may, might, must - verbs that
express mood or tense
● subject. Answer: who or what the sentence is about
● direct object. Answer: receives the action of the verb
● Dialect. Answer: a form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
, ● Pidgin. Answer: Language that may develop when two groups of people with different
languages meet. The pidgin has some characteristics of each language.
● Creole. Answer: When children learn the pidgin language as their first language
● accent. Answer: the manner in which people speak and the way words are pronounced in
different parts of the world
● Prestige Variety of a Language. 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. 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. Answer: informal language; everyone uses but difficult to define
● Register. Answer: Code Switching You speak differently at work, with family, with friends.
● Euphemism. Answer: An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered
unpleasant. Die vs. Pass Away
● language and sexism. Answer: Male words = empowering Female words = demeaning
● Morphology. Answer: The study of words
● Morphemes. Answer: internal word structures morph = ology
● derivational morphemes. Answer: prefixes and suffixes added to root words to create
derived words (bound morpheme)
● inflectional morphemes. 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. Answer: CANNOT stand alone
● Free (Unbound) Morphemes. Answer: words that can stand alone and carry meaning in
language
● coinage. Answer: a newly invented word or phrase; podcast
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
● Syntax. Answer: Part of grammar that represents a speakers knowledge of sentences and
their structures
● Rules of Syntax. Answer: Understanding how to combine words into phrases; phrases into
sentences
● Rules of Syntax: Correct Word Order. Answer: Understanding grammatical vs.
ungrammatical
● Rules of Syntax: Meaning. Answer: Understanding the meaning of a particular groups of
words and how to arrange the group of words
● Syntactic Categories. Answer: A group of expressions that can substitute for one another
without the loss of grammaticiality.
● Noun Phrase (NP). Answer: The name of a syntactic category that consists of proper
names, pronouns, and all other expressions with the same syntactic distribution.
● Determiner. Answer: words that introduce noun phrases, articles such as "A, The"
● Verb Phrase. Answer: The name of a syntactic category that is always a verb; (some times
a preposition will come before a verb)
● Demonstrative. Answer: this, that, these, those every, each - counting words
● Auxiliary (verb). Answer: have, had, be, was, were [to be verbs]
● Modals. Answer: can, could, shall, should, will, would, may, might, must - verbs that
express mood or tense
● subject. Answer: who or what the sentence is about
● direct object. Answer: receives the action of the verb
● Dialect. Answer: a form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
, ● Pidgin. Answer: Language that may develop when two groups of people with different
languages meet. The pidgin has some characteristics of each language.
● Creole. Answer: When children learn the pidgin language as their first language
● accent. Answer: the manner in which people speak and the way words are pronounced in
different parts of the world
● Prestige Variety of a Language. 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. 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. Answer: informal language; everyone uses but difficult to define
● Register. Answer: Code Switching You speak differently at work, with family, with friends.
● Euphemism. Answer: An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered
unpleasant. Die vs. Pass Away
● language and sexism. Answer: Male words = empowering Female words = demeaning
● Morphology. Answer: The study of words
● Morphemes. Answer: internal word structures morph = ology
● derivational morphemes. Answer: prefixes and suffixes added to root words to create
derived words (bound morpheme)
● inflectional morphemes. 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. Answer: CANNOT stand alone
● Free (Unbound) Morphemes. Answer: words that can stand alone and carry meaning in
language
● coinage. Answer: a newly invented word or phrase; podcast
