Quiz 1 | ENGL 3510 - English Grammar and Usage for Educators, Quizzes of English Language

Download Quiz 1 | ENGL 3510 - English Grammar and Usage for Educators and more Quizzes English Language in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Standard English DEFINITION 1 'rule' to abide by when used as the means of communication throughout the English-speaking world in education, politics, and law courts, the media, and in all other forms of formal speech and writing. TERM 2 Register in Language DEFINITION 2 Varieties of a language that a speaker uses in a particular social, situational, or occupational context TERM 3 Dialects DEFINITION 3 Varieties of language conditioned by geographical region TERM 4 Prescriptive DEFINITION 4 Usage TERM 5 Descriptive DEFINITION 5 GrammarIn the study of language, description or descriptive linguistics is the work of objectively analyzing and describing how language is actually used by a group of people in a speech community. TERM 6 S+V+Subj.Comp DEFINITION 6 Linking verbUses senses TERM 7 S+V+Subj.Comp DEFINITION 7 BE verbsare, is, was etc. TERM 8 Function Words DEFINITION 8 Function words are words that have little lexical meaning or have ambiguous meaning, but instead serve to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker.Determiners, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, prepositions, conjunctions TERM 9 Content Words DEFINITION 9 Lexical, functional, insertsNOUNS TERM 10 Morpheme DEFINITION 10 In linguistics, a morpheme is the smallest grammatical unit in a language. In other words, it is the smallest meaningful unit of a language.Suffixes, prefixes, stems