Communicative English Questions and Answers PDF

# Communicative English ## Objective Questions: 1. How many vowel sounds are there in the English language? 2. What is a diphthong? 3. What is stress? 4. How many consonant sounds are there in English accents? 5. What is a syllable? 6. What is intonation? 7. What is IPA? 8. What is "nown ping pong"...

# Communicative English ## Objective Questions: 1. How many vowel sounds are there in the English language? 2. What is a diphthong? 3. What is stress? 4. How many consonant sounds are there in English accents? 5. What is a syllable? 6. What is intonation? 7. What is IPA? 8. What is "nown ping pong"? 9. What are the three elements of communication? 10. What is communication? 11. What is non-verbal communication? 12. What is body language? 13. What is semi-vowel? 14. What is affricates? 15. What is a noun? 16. What is a verb? 17. What is an adjective? 18. What is a pronoun? 19. What is an adverb? 20. What are the degrees of adjectives? 21. What is accent? 22. What is a vowel glide? 23. What is Indianism? 24. How many persons are there in English grammar? 25. Define communication? 26. What is a relative pronoun? 27. What is a reflexive pronoun? 28. What is a possessive pronoun? 29. What is a demonstrative pronoun? 30. What is an interrogative pronoun? 31. What are the skills of language learning? 32. What are the types of reading? 33. How many nasal sounds are there in the English language? 34. What is skimming? 35. What is scanning? 36. What is intensive reading? 37. What is extensive reading? 38. How do you define zero-article? 39. What are the types of articles in English grammar? 40. What is prefix? 41. What is a root word? 42. What is suffix? 43. How do you define infix? 44. What is a compound word? 45. Give an example of a mono-syllabic word. 46. Give an example of a bi-syllabic word. 47. Give an example of a tri-Syllabic word. 48. Give an example of a poly-syllabic word. 49. What are the types of communication? (According to manner) 50. How many semi-vowels are there in the English language? 51. What do you mean by fricatives? 52. Define plosive? 53. What do you mean by bilabial consonants? 54. What is palatal consonant? 55. What is labiodental consonants? 56. What is alveolar consonant? 57. What is subject-verb agreement? 58. What is chunking? 59. What is pacing? 60. What is gerend? 61. What is an abstract noun? 62. How can you improve your reading speed? 63. What is dialect? 64. What are the five kinds of noun? 65. Why do accents vary? 66. What is communication skill? 67. What is an abstract noun? 68. What is the main function of gerund? 69. How is gerund different from present participle? 70. What is encoding? 71. What is decorting? 72. What is feedback in communication process? 73. What is paralanguage? 74. What is monopthong? 75. What is consonant? 76. What is vowel? 77. How many sounds are there in English phonetics? 78. What is grammar? 79. What is grape-vine communication? 80. What is business communication? 81. Differentiate between voiced consonant and voiceless consonant? 82. Why do we have different accents? 83. Define quantifiers. 84. Define modifiers. 85. What do you mean by demonstratives? 86. Differentiate between 'a number' and 'the number'. 87. Differentiate between the use of 'a little' and 'a few'. 88. What is punctuation? 89. What are the barriers to speed reading? 90. How many vowels are there in English phonetics and what are they? 91. What are the types of vowels? 92. What are the types of consonants? 93. How is classification of consonants done? 94. What is fluency? 95. What is paralinguistics? 96. What are the types of intonation? 97. Write two sentences using exclamatory marks correctly. 98. Write two sentences using inverted comma correctly. 99. Put apostrophe marks correctly in the following words. - Teachers' Common Room, Women's College, Students' Union, Children's Day. 100. What is tag questions. Give examples. ## Answer Sheet 1. There are twenty vowels in English language. 2. A diphthong is made of two vowel sounds placed adjacent to each other. Example - coin, loved, chair. 3. Stress means the degree of force with which a speaker pronounces a sound of a syllable. It is the emphasis laid on a particular syllable. 4. There are 24 consonant sounds in English accents. 5. A syllable is a unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound with or without surrounding consonants. A syllable may be a word or it may be a part of a word. "Book" is one syllabic and "word" and "water" are two syllabic. 6. The rise and fall in the pitch of the voice is called intonation. It is about how we say things rather than what we say. 7. The full form of IPA is International Phonetic Alphabet. The aim of IPA was to provide a unique symbol for each distinctive sound in a language. 8. "Ping pong" is another name for table tennis. In English grammar, "nown ping pong" refers to drilling with the art of teaching nouns in class rooms. 9. Sender, Receiver and Message are the three elements of communication. 10. Communication is a process by which ideas, opinions, feelings and emotions are exchanged. 11. Non-verbal communication is wordless, voiceless communication. It involves signs, symbols, colours, gestures and body language. 12. Body language refers to expressions through gestures, postures, eye movement and facial changes. It is a type of non-verbal communication. 13. A semi-vowel or glide is a sound that is phonetically similar to a vowel sound but functions as the syllable boundary. It does not work as the nucleus of a syllable. Examples of semi-vowels are 'y' in Yellow and 'w' in West. 14. Affricates are the combination of plosives and fricatives. 15. A noun is a naming word. It is a word that is used for as a name for something. 16. A verb is a word that conveys an action or occurrence. It usually agrees with the subject and determines the tense for the sentence. 17. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or a pronoun. It provides more information about the noun. 18. A pronoun is a word or a group of words used as a substitute of a noun or a noun phrase. It can function as a subject, object, compliment in a sentence. 19. Where as an adjective modifies a noun, an adverb modifies a verb. It adds something more to the meaning of a verb. Ex- She ran quickly. 20. There are three degrees of adjective - positive, comparative, superlative. Ex- Wise - wiset, wisest. 21. Accent is a distinctive way of pronouncing a language. It is a manner of pronunciation peculiar to a particular individual, locality or nation. 22. A vowel glide is also known as semi-vowel. It is a vowel sound but functions as the syllable boundary. Similar to the consonants Y and W, in Yes and West. 24. There are three persons in English grammar: 1st person (I, we), 2nd person (You) and 3rd person (he, she, they). 25. Communication is a process by which ideas, opinions, feelings and emotions are exchanged. It involves three elements - sender, message and receiver. 26. A relative pronoun is a pronoun that makes a relative clause. It is called relative pronoun because it relates the noun after which it is use. Ex. She gave me a letter which I... 27. A reflexive pronoun is used as a substitute for a noun. It is used when the subject and the object refer to the same person or thing. It is formed by attaching self/selves to the objective form of the pronoun. Ex. Govind saw himself in the mirror. 28. A possessive pronoun indicates possession or ownership. Possessive pronouns include my, mine, our, ours, its, his, her, hers, theirs, your and yours. Ex- That book is mine. 29. Demonstrative pronoun is used to dem point to or demonstrate people or things. They stand for this, that, these, those are demonstrative pronouns. Ex. This is our new house. 30. An interrogative pronoun is used to ask questions. Wh words are sometimes called interrogative pronouns. They may be used both direct and indirect question statements. 31. Basically, there are four skills of language learning - listening, speaking, reading and writing. 32. There are four types of reading techniques. They are - skimming, scanning, intensive reading and extensive reading. 33. There are three nasal sounds in English language. They are - m, n, ng and they are all consonant sounds. 34. Skimming is a reading technique that uses rapid eye movement through the text to get general overview of the material. 35. Scanning is reading rapidly in order to find specific facts from the text. It helps to answer questions requiring factual support. 36. Intensive learning reading involves reading in detail with specific learning aims and tasks. The purpose of intensive reading is to focus on content and grammatical structures. 37. Extensive reading is the process of reading longer texts for an extended period of time. We generally use easier texts while reading fack or fiction for pleasure. 38. The term zero article refers to noun phrases that contain no articles, either definite or indefinite. Zero article is known as the zero determiner. Ex- My sister's name is Lila. 39. Basically, there are two types of articles in English grammar - definite and indefinite. Zero article is not a type as it is not used. 40. Prefix is a word, letter or number placed before another word to form or convey new meaning. Ex- disobedient. "Dis" is prefix placed before the word obedient. 41. A root word is a basic word with no prefix or suffix added to it. Ex- dis/obedient/ly. "dis" is prefix, "ly" is suffix and obedient' is the root word. 42. A suffix is a letter or group of letters placed at the end of a word to create or relate words. Ex. Obediently, "ly" is the suffix. 43. An infix is an affix which inserted inside a word stem. Infixes are usually found in the plural forms of some words. Ex- Woman - Women, passerby - passersby. 44. A compound word is a combination of two or more words to create a new word with new meaning. "Sun" and "flower" are two different words, but when fused together, they form another word, Sunflower. 45. A word having a single syllable is called mono-syllabic word. Yes, no, and heal, sure, buy are the examples of monosyllabic words. 46. A word having two syllables is called bi-syllabic word. "Hotel" (Hotel), "Chorus" (Chorus), "Music" (Music) are the examples of bi-syllabic word. 47. A word having three syllables is called a tri-syllabic word. "Beautiful," "metaphor," "Katharine," "Elizabeth" are the examples of the tri-syllabic words. 48. A word having more than one and usually more than three syllables is called a poly-syllabic word. "Superangelic," "momentarily," "choreographer" are the examples of poly-syllabic words. 49. According to manners there are two types of communication - Formal and Informal. Here are two semi-vowels in English language and they are "Y" and "W". 51. Fricatives are consonant sounds made by the friction of breath in a narrow opening of the mouth. "F", "V" are the examples of fricatives. 52. Plosive is a consonant sound that is produced by stopping the airflow using the lips, teeth or palate followed by a sudden release of air. The sounds associated with the letters "p", "k", "b", "g" (pat, kid, bag) are examples of plosives. 53. When a consonant sound is articulated with both lips, it is called bilabial consonant. Baby babblings like "bababa", "mamama" are the classic examples of bilabial consonants. 54. Palatal consonant sound is produced by raising the blade or front of the tongue towards or against the hard-palate. 55. What is labio-dental consonants? Labiodental consonants are produced with the use of upper and lower labiodental. Examples of labio-dental sounds in English are "f", "v". 56. Alveolar consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge. /t/, /d/, /n/, and /l/ are the alveolar consonants. 57. Subject-verb agreement is a grammatical concept that discusses that the subject of a sentence must align with the main verb of that same sentence. 58. Chunking is a strategy that can be used to improve a person's short term memory. It involves reducing long strings of information down into shorter strings of information so that it becomes easy to remember. 59. Pacing is a tool that controls the speed and rhythm of reading or speaking of a person. 60. A gerund is the noun form of a verb that ends in "ing". It should not be confused with the "ing" forms of the verbs used in progressive tense like "Speaking English is difficult". 61. An abstract noun denotes an idea, quality or state rather than a concrete object. Truth, danger, happiness, mercy, justice etc. are the examples of abstract noun. 62. Speed reading can be improved by avoiding distractions and emphasizing practice. 63. Dialect is a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group. 64. The five kinds of nouns are proper noun, common noun, Collective noun, abstract noun and compound noun. 65. Accents chiefly vary because of the influence of the first language of the speaker. 66. Communication Skill involves the ability to convey or share ideas and feelings effectively. 67. An abstract noun denotes idea, quality or state rather than a concrete object. Truth, danger, love, sympathy, justice are the examples of abstract noun. 68. The gerund has the same function as a noun and it can perform different functions in a sentence. - (i) the gerund as the subject (ii) the gerund as a noun. - (iii) the gerund as the subject compliment. 69. A gerund acts like a noun. Where as a present participle acts like a verb or adjective. 70. Encoding takes place in the sender of the message. The message generated lay by the sender is encoded symbolically in the forms of words, pictures, gestures etc before it is being conveyed. 71. Decoding is the process of converting symbols encoded by the sender. 72. Once the receiver conforms to the sender that the message is received at his end and he's understand, the process of communication is complete. This act in the communication process is known as feedback. 73. Paralanguage refers to the non-verbal elements of communication. It includes intonation, pitch, gesture, facial expressions etc. 74. A monopthong is also called a pure vowel. A pure vowel is one during the utterance of which the organs of speech remain in a single position. 75. A consonant is a sound which is produced with the partial or complete closure in the oral passage. There are 24 consonants in English phonetics. 76. A vowel is a sound which is produced through the oral passage without any obstruction. There are twenty vowels in English phonetics. 77. There are 44 sounds in English phonetics. 78. Grammar is the set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases and words in a natural language. 79. Grapevine communication is a complex web of oral information flow connecting all members of the organization. It has the process of sharing information quickly as a rumour. 80. Business communication is all the process of sharing information among employees within and outside a company. 81. A voiced consonant is one in which vocal cords vibrate and come closer. A voiceless consonant is one in which vocal cords do not vibrate and there remains some gap between them. 82. Accents vary from region to region. The interference of mother tongue is the basic reason of such variation. 83. A quantifier is a word that usually goes before a noun to express the quantity of the object. Some, many, a lot of, few, little are the examples of quantifiers. 84. Determiners are words placed in front of a noun to make it clear what the noun refers to. A, an, the, this, that, these, those, most, all etc are the determiners. 85. Some pronouns like this, that, these, those, none and neither are used to substitute nouns and the nocens they replace can be understood from the context. These are demonstrative pronouns. Ex- We bought this *house last year*. 86. A subject beginning with 'the number' takes singular verb. But, a subject beginning with 'a number' takes plural verb. - The number of students in the class is very less. - A number people were present in the meeting. 87. A subject beg. "A Little" is used with uncountable noun and takes singular verb. But 'a few' is used with countable noun and takes plural verb. - A little rice is left for me. - A few students are present in the college. 88. Punctuation is used in writing to separate sentences and their elements. It is used to ensure clarity in meaning. 89. Reading word by word, reading aloud, re-reading and reading too fast are the barriers to speed reading. 90. There are 44 sounds in English phonetics. 91. Broadly diphthongs and monopthongs are the two main categories of vowels. 92. Broadly voiced and voiceless are the two types of consonants. 93. Classification of consonants are done on the basis of voicing, place and manner of articulation. 94. Fluency means speaking a language easily, quickly and correctly. 95. Paralinguistics refers to the nonverbal elements of communication. It includes the pitch, volume, facial expression, intonation etc. 96. Falling intonation, rising intonation, fall-rise intonation are the three types of intonation. 97. Two sentences with exclamatory marks - - What a beautiful garden it is! - How interesting the story is! 98. The old man said, "I will visit Pune with my wife." The girl said, "I love you very much. Sumit. " 99. Teachers' Common Room, Women's College, Students' Union, Children's Day. 100. A 'tag question' is a grammatical concept construction added to the end of a declarative or imperative sentence. It changes the statement into a question. Ex. It is very cold today, is it?