Language words 1 (test)

Some nouns form the ________ irregularly (man – men, leaf – leaves, goose – geese, etc.)

1. multiplicity
2. number
3. plural
4. singular

You start a sentence with a ________ letter.

1. capital
2. large
3. strong
4. upper

There is usually the definite ________ before the word ‘sun’ because there is only one sun.

1. article
2. member
3. participle
4. particle

The ________ -er in the word ‘cooker’ doesn't mean that it is a person who does something. It is a common mistake of students of English as a foreign language.

1. afterfix
2. fix
3. prefix
4. suffix

The words ‘movie’ and ‘motion picture’ are ________. Both mean the same thing.

1. antonyms
2. nominals
3. pronouns
4. synonyms

There should be a question mark at the end of an ________ sentence.

1. affirmative
2. exclamatory
3. imperative
4. interrogative

In e-mails, people often intentionally ________ some words (such as ‘tonite’ or ‘thanx’).

1. miskey
2. misspell
3. mistake
4. miswrite

Watch your ________. There should be a comma after the word ‘however’.

1. interpunction
2. interpuncture
3. punction
4. punctuation

There is only one ________ in the word ‘hot’.

1. clause
2. consonant
3. letter
4. vowel

In an English sentence there is usually a ________ followed by a verb.

1. complement
2. object
3. predicate
4. subject