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1. What is the role of a grammar *in linguistics*?
2. Which of these provides the most accurate description of the adverb as a part of speech?
3. All words in English (and in other languages) can be assigned to one or other of the traditional eight parts of speech.
4. In which of these phrases is the order of adjectives grammatical?
5. Which of these provides the most accurate linguistic definition of "subject of a clause" in English?
6. " 'Do you think they're telling the truth?' 'Yes, I think so'. " What of these best describes the role of "so" in this context? (Hint. Try paraphrasing the word "so").
7. All pronouns have an antecedent in the text (in writing) or discourse (in speech).
8. Since the 1950s linguistics has shown a renewed interest in "linguistic universals", that is, in characteristics shared by all living natural languages. Which of these is NOT a universal?
9. One sometimes finds the statement: "Nouns are 'naming' words". Does any other part of speech also "name"?
10. In 1921, a government commissioned report appeared in Britain on "The Teaching of English in England ..." It includes this passage: "The great difficulty of teachers in Elementary Schools in many districts is that they have to fight against the powerful influence of evil habits of speech contracted in home and street. The teachers' struggle is thus not with ignorance but with a perverted power". What is the most bizarre aspect of this claim?
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