How many parts of English language are divided by continent?
What do “Lishes” devise for?
A. Describing pronunciation of English
B. Describing certain local variants of English
C. Describing certain local variants of English in England
D. Describing American English
Which country’s economics and geography connected with USA?
A. Canada
B. New Zealand
C. Australia
D. England
Who speaks English as not mother tongue?
A. Chinese
B. Australian
C. American
D. English
When was the standardization of British English more settled than it had been in the previous century?
A. In the 17th century
B. In the 18th century
C. In the 19th century
D. In the 16th century
What were the principal factors those added many words into English in the late Modern English?
A. Industrial revolution and technology
B. British Empire covered ¼ of the earth’s surface.
C. Cultural revolution
D. World war I
E. Industrial revolution and technology and British Empire covered ¼ of the earth’s surface
When did the form of the modern English language speak and complete?
A. After great vowel shift, and completed in about 1550
B. In the 4th century
C. 1600s
D. In the 3th century
Which sentence is true?
A. The period from 1500 tp about 1650 is called Lately Old English.
B. The period from 1500 to about 1650 is called Early Old English.
C. The period from 1500 to about 1650 is called Lately Modern English.
D. The period from 1500 to about 1650 is called Early Modern English.
Which continent does Cameroon English belong to?
A. Europe
B. Asian
C. Africa
D. Oceania
Which continent does Burnese English belong to?
A. Oceania
B. Africa
C. Asian
D. Europe
What laid the foundation English over much of the world?
A. Australian politics
B. United Nation
C. United States’ influence
D. British colonialism
Why are there no official rule for ‘’Standard English’’?
A. Because it like some other languages.
B. Because it isn’t complicated,
C. Because it unlike some other languages.
D. Because it is complicated.
From 1500 to 1650: Early Modern English develops, there is a large influx of
A. D. Celtic and Gaelic borrowings and neologisms.
B. B. Celtic and Greek borrowings and neologisms.
C. C. Latin and French borrowings and neologisms.
D. A. Celtic and Greek borrowings and neologisms.
The greater social mobility after world war I and II helped…..
A. To make English become dialects
B. To make English important
C. To lessen the differences between social accent
D. To make English standard
What Englishes are there in oceania?
A. Australian English
B. New Zealand English
C. Fijian English
D. All of A, B, C
When did the first permanent English-speaking colony in north America establish?
A. In 1608
B. In 1635
C. 1796
D. In 1607
The pronunciation differences in the UK are mainly distinguished by …
A. Money
B. Region
C. Social class
D. Age
Different accents throughout England are mainly influenced by …
A. Discrimination between the rich and the poor
B. Phoneme inventory of regional dialects
C. Editing English
D. Racial discrimination
When has there been academic interest in dialects?
A. Since late 17th
B. since late 20th
C. Since late 18th
D. since late 19th
Southern English accents have three mains historical influences:
A. The London accent, Received Pronunciation, Southern rural accents
B. The London accent, Received Pronunciation, Northern rural accents
C. The Australia accent, Received Pronunciation, Southern rural accents
D. The Australia accent, Received Pronunciation,Northern rural accents