1. In the sentence "John kicked the football across the yard," what is the verb?
2. Which is the plural of ox?
3. What is the plural form of the word "goose"?
4. What word describes a word that sounds like the noise it makes?
5. In grammar, what is the name of a word that modifies a noun?
6. In grammar, what is the name of a word for a person, place, or thing?
7. Which of these is an adverb?
8. What is the study of the grammatical structures of sentences?
9. In grammar, what does the tense express?
10. In grammar, what are figures involving a change in a sense, such as metaphor, simile, and irony called?
11. What is a word or a group of words that is self-contradicting called?
12. What is the most common type of rhyme in English poetry?
13. How many types of moods are there in English grammar?
14. In grammar, what is the name of a word that adds meaning to the basic meaning of the main verb?
15. What type of syllable ends with a vowel?
16. What type of noun does kenning, a concise compound, replace?
17. Metaphysical and Petrarchan are types of what figure of speech?
18. In which figure of speech, a striking opposition or contrast of words is made in the same sentence to secure emphasis?
19. How many types of affixes are there?
20. What are the "i" in fit and the "a" in the pack?
21. In grammar, what is the use of spacing, conventional signs, and typographical devices called?
22. Which language analysis recognizes the relationship among the various elements of a sentence?
23. In grammar, which verb reflects the speaker’s view towards the character of an event?
24. What is the name of the word that is attached to a word stem to alter its meaning?
25. What word describes the formation of a word by changing the base or by adding a prefix or a suffix?
26. In which figure of speech does a speaker directly address a single person or thing?
27. Which figure of speech is characterized by the deliberate omission of a word or words?
28. Which grammatical form is used in speaking to a social superior?
29. What is the name of a grammatical process in which words are formed by a sequence of morphemes without a change in spelling or phonetics?
30. Which school of linguistic thought and analysis was established by Vilém Mathesius in 1926?
31. Which term was introduced by Leonard Bloomfield in 1933 that divides sentences into successive layers or constituents?
32. What is the study of the internal construction of words called?
33. What do we call a word that results from putting two or more words or parts of words?
34. What is the smallest grammatical unit of speech?
35. What is the form of language that is spoken in a particular region or by a group of people?
36. What is the study of language and culture called?
37. Which Greek grammarian was called the "prince of grammarians"?
38. Who wrote the book "About Analogy"?
39. Which of these works is written by grammarian George O. Curme?
40. Which book did Hermann Hirt publish between 1921 and 1937?
41. Which grammarian is known as the founder of the study of Hebrew syntax?
42. What was the name of the artificial language constructed in 1928 by the Danish philologist Otto Jespersen?
43. Who wrote the book Sefer ha-zikkaron?
44. Who was the originator of Stratificational grammar?
45. Which of the following work is written by Greek grammarian Manuel Moschopoulos?
46. Who is the author of the De compendiosa doctrina?
47. Who was the originator of Tagmemics, a system of linguistic methodology?
48. Which German linguist known for the Stammbaumtheorie or family-tree theory?
49. Who among the following founded and edited the Indogermanische Forschungen?
50. What is the plural of bacteria?
51. Which is the plural of codex?
52. What is the plural form of the word "leaf"?
53. What is the plural form of the word "moose"?
54. Which is the plural of vertebra?
55. Who wrote the first grammar of the Indian language Tupí?
56. Which scholar authored 3,500 books that earned him the nickname Chalkenteros (“Brass Guts”)?
57. Which South African poet and novelist is called the “father of Xhosa poetry”?