WGU ELO1 EXAM 5 2026 MOCK PAPER
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW NOTES ANALYTICAL
SUMMARY
◉ 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
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW NOTES ANALYTICAL
SUMMARY
◉ 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
