How often do Americans use irregular verbs?
A. never
B. rarely
C. Very often
D. sometimes
When was the English language first introduced to the Americas?
A. 19th century
B. 20th century
C. 18th century
D. Early 17th century
What are the main differences between British and American English?
A. The presence of rhotic accent.
and Differences in vowel pronunciation.
B. Differences in consonant
C. Change of stress
and differences in articulation
D. All of A, B, C
How does American English use collective noun?
A. Singular form
B. either singular or plural forms
C. none
D. plural forms
How do Americans use the verbal auxiliary “shan’t”
A. sometimes
B. Very often
C. never
D. seldom
Why is Australian English is recognisable and familiar to English speaker around the world?
A. It is used to identify Australian in characters non - Australian films and television programs.
B. English is spoken around the world.
C. It is easy to speak English like native-speaker.
D. Australian native learnt English when they were child.
Cultivated Australian English has many …. British Received pronunciation.
A. Difficulties with.
B. Similarities to.
C. Differences from.
D. Ease.
The short vowels correspond:
A. The word streets.
B. To its tense vowels and centring diphthongs.
C. The consonants
D. The lax vowels used in analyses of Received Pronunciation.
What does the sentence “This’s arvo” mean?
A. “This’s afternoon”
B. “This’s morning”
C. “This’s evening”
D. “This’s noon”
Which main varieties of Australian English are spoken according to linguists?
Which gender did not old Germanic languages use?
A. Masculine
B. Common neutre
C. feminine
D. neutre
Which country is Canadian English sometimes grouped with?
A. Scottish English
B. American English
C. Australian English
D. British English
What does the word “rubber” mean as a slang in Canada?
A. baker
B. condom
C. candy
D. eraser
When did the first Germanic tribes arrive in England?
A. 7th century
B. 8th century
C. Ca 410
D. Ca 600
Which sentence is used in America?
A. "She majored in geography at Harvard."
B. "She read geography at Cambridge."
C. "She studied geography at Cambridge."
D. "She did geography at Warwick." (informal)
According to the concept of university and flexibility, what is international English?
A. It is being used in
USA
B. It is being used in
English-speaking countries.
C. It is being used in Britian
D. It is being used and developed in the world.
Who is an Anglophone?
A. A person speaks both English and French as mother tongue
B. A person speaks French as mother tongue
C. A person speaks Spanish as mother tongue
D. A person speaks English as mother tongue
________ wrote prolifically during the late 1500s and 1600s
A. Shakespeare
B. Chaucer
C. The Vikings
D. The King Jane Bible
Which languages did the grammatical simplifications observed in?
A. pidgins, creoles
B. other contact languages
C. pidgins, creoles and other contact languages.
D. creoles and Celtic
The vowels of Australian English can be divided into categories:
A. Small vowels and big vowels.
B. All answers
C. Large vowels and marrow vowels
D. Long vowels and short vowels .