LAN | MCQs

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The sentence "Her smile was as bright as the sun" uses the word "as" to directly compare her smile to the sun.

This is the hallmark of a simile, a figure of speech that compares two different things using "like" or "as."

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An anagram rearranges the letters of a word to form another.

Married uses the exact letters of admire rearranged.

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The function of the modal verb "should" here is Advice.

It suggests what is the right or best thing to do for safety.

It expresses a recommendation.

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The letter "b" in "doubt" is silent and not pronounced.

Silent letters are common in English and can affect spelling but not pronunciation.

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"We've" is the correct contraction for "we have."

It combines the subject "we" with the auxiliary verb "have."

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 B.F. Skinner proposed the Behaviorist Theory, suggesting that language is learned through conditioning, imitation, and reinforcement, not innate mechanisms.

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 The Nativist Theory, proposed by Noam Chomsky, argues that humans are born with an innate capacity for language through a mental mechanism called the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).

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Homonyms are words that are spelled and pronounced the same but have different meanings.

"Fly" can mean both an insect and the action of moving through the air, making it a pair of homonyms.

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A minimal pair consists of two words that differ by only one sound, usually one phoneme, while the rest of the word remains the same.

In "Pin" and "Bin," the only difference is the initial consonant sound (/p/ vs /b/), making them a minimal pair.

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A consonant cluster is a group of two or more consonants at the beginning of a word without any vowels between them.

In "Spring," the cluster "spr" is a consonant cluster.