SLO1 WGU Exam |Question and Answers| 100%
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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
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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
