FBQ1: The minimal sound unit that makes a difference in meaning is a _____
Answer: phoneme

FBQ2: Ability to process nonverbal information is located in the _____ hemisphere of the brain  
Answer: right

FBQ3: In English, the sentence, ‘I has arrived’ is said to be _____
Answer: ungrammatical

FBQ4: Sociolinguists study the interaction between language and _____
Answer: society

FBQ5: _____  is the part of grammar which represents a speaker’s ability to produce grammatical sentences.
Answer: Syntax

FBQ6: A speakers' knowledge of his/her language is called _____
Answer: competence

FBQ7: In English, the sentence, ‘I has arrived’ is said to be _____
Answer: ungrammatical

FBQ8: Grammar is a system of _____structures
Answer: infinite

FBQ9: _____ is the presence in a language of two varieties used for distinct functions.
Answer: diglossia

FBQ10: "He passed on yesterday night" is an example of a _____
Answer: euphemism

FBQ11: _____ phonetics is the branch of linguistics that is concerned with perception of sounds
Answer: acoustic

FBQ12: A patient who has experienced a serious head injury but is able to respond to instructions is indication that the _____ side of the brain is still functioning.
Answer: left

FBQ13: "Sons of the soil” instead of “tons of the soil” is an example of a speech error called _____ 
Answer: spoonerism

FBQ14: The focus of Linguistics is to study and _____ how language is used 
Answer: describe

FBQ15: _____ is otherwise called a “slip of tongue" 
Answer: Spoonerism

FBQ16: _____ defined grammar as a native speakers’ competence of his/her language.
Answer: Noam Chomsky

FBQ17: A sufficient corpus of description of words in a language can constitute a _____
Answer: dictionary

FBQQ18: Every language has a set of  _____  that determine word order
Answer: rules

FBQ19: A morpheme that can stand on its own is called a _____ morpheme
Answer: free

FBQ20: Another name for traditional grammar is _____linguistics.
Answer: classical

FBQ21: The function word in the sentence, "My sister and I are close" is _____
Answer: And

FBQ22: A_____is a reduced language that results from extended contact between groups of people with no language in common.  
Answer: Pidgin

FBQ23: When the language variety of speakers differs only in pronunciation or phonetic distinctions, they are called___
Answer: Accents

FBQ24: Individual speakers sometimes use language forms that are unique to them; such varieties are referred to as_________ 
Answer: Idiolects

FBQ25: ____are varieties of language used by groups defined according to class, education, age, sex, and other social parameters.   
Answer: Social dialects

FBQ26: The postulation that specific functions of language ability are linked to specific locations in the brain is called___ of the brain.           
Answer: localisation

FBQ27: __in human language represent the smallest unit of description. 
Answer: sounds

FBQ28: The head of the capitalised part of the sentence 'The hunter hid IN THE BUSHES' is a _____
Answer: preposition

FBQ29: _____ is the father of structural linguistics
Answer: Saussure

FBQ30: American and British English are examples of _____ of English
Answer: varieties

FBQ31: The word, "impracticable" has _____ morphemes
Answer: 3

FBQ32: The root morpheme of the word "impracticable" is _____
Answer: practical

FBQ33: English in the United Kingdom and French in France are examples of _____ languages
Answer: national

FBQ34: The statement, "I am coming" instead of "I'll be back" is an example of language _____
Answer: interference

FBQ35: _____ is a result of difficulty in understanding and in producing speech forms.
Answer: aphasia

MCQ1: Sound segments that make for a differences in the meaning of pairs of words are called ________
Answer: syntax

MCQ2: The branch of linguistics that is concerned with the internal structure of words and how words are formed in a language is called __________. 
Answer: morphology

MCQ3: Phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics are aspects of _______________
Answer: microlinguistics

MCQ4: What a medical doctor is to the human body is what a linguist is to human ____________ 
Answer: language

MCQ5: Linguistics is the _______________study of language.  
Answer: scientific

MCQ6:  Language is non-instinctive, meaning it is ____
Answer: Scientific

MCQ7: ______ is the study of the effect of useage and context on language. 
Answer: sociolinguistics

MCQ8: The tendency to generalize by using grammatical forms which are acceptable in one language to prescribe for another language is often associated with___
Answer: Prescriptive Grammar

MCQ9: The______ theory focuses on the biological basis in the formation and development of human language.
Answer: Glossogenetic

MCQ10: The sentence ‘The tree ate my food’ can be described as because the verb ‘eat’ requires an animate subject to be true.  
Answer: semantically false

MCQ11: According to Chomsky, the actual use of language in concrete situations is called_____
Answer: performance

MCQ12: In the area of intelligence, humans are superior to animals, and this puts humans in a superior class known as________ 
Answer: homo loquens

MCQ13: /b/, /d/, /g/are examples of _____ in the English language
Answer: phonemes

MCQ14: The complusory components in the phrase 'burgled the house' are____________
Answer: verb+determiner+noun

MCQ15: In the word 'philantropist' 'ist' is a _________
Answer: bound morpheme

MCQ16: The sentence, 'Elizabeth has used his wits to climb to where he is today' is ungrammatical because of
Answer: Subject-gender agreement

MCQ17: The orthographic representation of /sait/ is ________
Answer: cite site sight

MCQ18: A damage to the______ of the brain will cause speech comprehension difficulties.
Answer: Wernicke’s Area

MCQ19: Wherever communities of deaf people exist,________ develop.
Answer: sign languages

MCQ20: ‘John work gone’ is an example of _______
Answer: broca’s aphasia

MCQ21: _______theory focuses on the biological basis in the formation and development of human language. 
Answer: Glossogenetic

MCQ22: An impairment of language function due to damage to localised cerebral cortex is called_______________ 
Answer: Aphasia

MCQ23: To say “consult” instead of “insult” is an example of ________
Answer: Malapropism

MCQ24: Damage to the__________of the brain can result in problems with speech production.  
Answer: broca’s area

MCQ25: ____________ refers to the actual use of language in concrete situations.
Answer: Performance

MCQ26: In language study, competence means_________
Answer: Knowledge

MCQ27: _______________was able to combine some forms to produce sentences. 
Answer: Sarah

MCQ28: _______________is concerned with the mental mechanism underlying speech acquisition.
Answer: Psycholinguistics

MCQ29: ______ is the study of the effect of usage and context on language. 
Answer: Sociolinguistics

MCQ30: _______grammar is characterised by the use of the terms of parts of speech to identify words in sentences. 
Answer: Traditiona

MCQ31: Research findings have shown that damage to the____ of the brain can result to difficulty in speech production.  
Answer: Broca’s Area

MCQ32: ____refers to native speaker knowledge of words and word formation processes of the speaker's language.,
Answer: Morphological knowledge

MCQ33: ______postulated that language is an innate ability and is specie-specific.
Answer: Noam Chomsky

MCQ34: The label homo sapiens was first used to refer to humans by______ in his classification of the animal kingdom.
Answer: Linnaeus

MCQ35: The English statement 'He's a fair weather friend' can be only be understood in ________
Answer: pragmatic terms