English Grammar Rules Quiz

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How is grammatical function indicated for pronouns, nouns, adjectives, and articles in English?

  • By noun declension
  • By inflectional case system
  • By word order, prepositions, and the 'Saxon genitive or English possessive' (-'s) (correct)
  • By verb conjugation

What has modern English largely abandoned from the Indo-European language family?

  • Analytic constructions
  • Word order
  • Inflectional case system (correct)
  • Verb conjugation

What are the two largest word classes in English?

  • Nouns and adjectives
  • Verbs and adjectives
  • Nouns and verbs (correct)
  • Adjectives and adverbs

Which form of speech and writing is described in the article?

<p>Present-day Standard English (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How many word classes or parts of speech are commonly distinguished in English?

<p>Eight (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What has sociology gradually expanded its focus to?

<p>Health, economy, military, punishment, the Internet, and sociology of education (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What has led to increasingly interpretative, hermeneutic, and philosophical approaches towards the analysis of society?

<p>The linguistic and cultural turns of the mid-20th century (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What has the turn of the 21st century seen the rise of?

<p>New analytically, mathematically, and computationally rigorous techniques (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do social researchers draw upon as the range of social scientific methods has expanded?

<p>A variety of qualitative and quantitative techniques (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are some of the subjects and institutions sociology has expanded its focus to?

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What has sociology gradually expanded its focus to?

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What are some of the subjects and institutions sociology has expanded its focus to?

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What has the turn of the 21st century seen the rise of?

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What do social researchers draw upon as the range of social scientific methods has expanded?

<p>A variety of qualitative and quantitative techniques (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What has led to increasingly interpretative, hermeneutic, and philosophical approaches towards the analysis of society?

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