SLO1 – WGU EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 2026 VERIFIED.
Syntax - ANS Part of grammar that represents a speakers knowledge of sentences and their
structures
Rules of Syntax - ANS Understanding how to combine words into phrases; phrases into
sentences
Rules of Syntax: Correct Word Order - ANS Understanding grammatical vs. ungrammatical
Rules of Syntax: Meaning - ANS Understanding the meaning of a particular groups of words
and how to arrange the group of words
Syntactic Categories - ANS A group of expressions that can substitute for one another
without the loss of grammaticiality.
Noun Phrase (NP) - ANS The name of a syntactic category that consists of proper names,
pronouns, and all other expressions with the same syntactic distribution.
Determiner - ANS words that introduce noun phrases, articles such as "A, The"
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,Verb Phrase - ANS The name of a syntactic category that is always a verb; (some times a
preposition will come before a verb)
Demonstrative - ANS this, that, these, those
every, each - counting words
Auxiliary (verb) - ANS have, had, be, was, were [to be verbs]
Modals - ANS can, could, shall, should, will, would, may, might, must - verbs that express
mood or tense
subject - ANS who or what the sentence is about
direct object - ANS receives the action of the verb
Dialect - ANS a form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
Pidgin - ANS Language that may develop when two groups of people with different languages
meet. The pidgin has some characteristics of each language.
Creole - ANS When children learn the pidgin language as their first language
accent - ANS the manner in which people speak and the way words are pronounced in
different parts of the world
Prestige Variety of a Language - ANS The dominant or standard dialect of a region.
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, America = Standard American English
(most people speak a dialect, usually no one speaks the "prestige")
"The Standard" - SAE - ANS 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 - ANS informal language; everyone uses but difficult to define
Register - ANS Code Switching
You speak differently at work, with family, with friends.
Euphemism - ANS An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered
unpleasant.
Die vs. Pass Away
language and sexism - ANS Male words = empowering
Female words = demeaning
Morphology - ANS The study of words
Morphemes - ANS internal word structures
morph = ology
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ANSWERS 2026 VERIFIED.
Syntax - ANS Part of grammar that represents a speakers knowledge of sentences and their
structures
Rules of Syntax - ANS Understanding how to combine words into phrases; phrases into
sentences
Rules of Syntax: Correct Word Order - ANS Understanding grammatical vs. ungrammatical
Rules of Syntax: Meaning - ANS Understanding the meaning of a particular groups of words
and how to arrange the group of words
Syntactic Categories - ANS A group of expressions that can substitute for one another
without the loss of grammaticiality.
Noun Phrase (NP) - ANS The name of a syntactic category that consists of proper names,
pronouns, and all other expressions with the same syntactic distribution.
Determiner - ANS words that introduce noun phrases, articles such as "A, The"
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,Verb Phrase - ANS The name of a syntactic category that is always a verb; (some times a
preposition will come before a verb)
Demonstrative - ANS this, that, these, those
every, each - counting words
Auxiliary (verb) - ANS have, had, be, was, were [to be verbs]
Modals - ANS can, could, shall, should, will, would, may, might, must - verbs that express
mood or tense
subject - ANS who or what the sentence is about
direct object - ANS receives the action of the verb
Dialect - ANS a form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group
Pidgin - ANS Language that may develop when two groups of people with different languages
meet. The pidgin has some characteristics of each language.
Creole - ANS When children learn the pidgin language as their first language
accent - ANS the manner in which people speak and the way words are pronounced in
different parts of the world
Prestige Variety of a Language - ANS The dominant or standard dialect of a region.
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, America = Standard American English
(most people speak a dialect, usually no one speaks the "prestige")
"The Standard" - SAE - ANS 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 - ANS informal language; everyone uses but difficult to define
Register - ANS Code Switching
You speak differently at work, with family, with friends.
Euphemism - ANS An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered
unpleasant.
Die vs. Pass Away
language and sexism - ANS Male words = empowering
Female words = demeaning
Morphology - ANS The study of words
Morphemes - ANS internal word structures
morph = ology
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