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simple Examination lane. 321

I. Circle the best answer from among the alternatives.
1- According to the ____________ theory, primitive words could have been imitations of the natural sounds which early men and women heard around them.
(A) yo-heave-ho
(B) ding-dong
(C) bow-wow
(D) the interjection


2- The early____________ used separate symbols to represent the vowel sounds as distinct entities.
(A) Romans
(B) Greeks
(C) Egyptians
(D) Sumerians


الإجابة النموذجية
1- (C)
2- (B)

II: Fill in the blanks to complete the following statements.
1- ______________ is a feature of all languages that novel utterances are continually being created.
2- _______________ is the study of the meaning of words, phrases, and sentences.
الإجابة النموذجية
1- Productivity
2- Semantics

III. Write (×) if the statement is false, and ( √ ) if it is true.

( )
1- Two forms with opposite meanings are called antonyms.
( )
2- The inflectional morpheme “-er” came from the Old English form “-ere”.


الإجابة النموذجية
1- ( √ )
2- (×)

IV. Answer the following question. Use example to support and clarify your answer.
1- Define metonymy.
Answer: Metonymy is a type of a relationship between words based on a close connection in everyday experience. Examples of metonymy are:
(a) The connection is based on a container-contents relation (bottle-coke; can-juice).
(b) The connection is based on a whole-part relation (car-wheels; house-roof).
(c) The connection is based a representative-symbol relationship (king-crown; the President- the White House).

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