Linguistics | MCQs

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In the sentence, "athlete" is a noun.

A noun refers to a person, place, or thing, and "athlete" here represents a person skilled in sports.

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Compassion: This is an abstract noun, representing a quality or feeling.

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Collective: "Mob" is a collective noun, representing a group of people.

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To behave deceptively; the “colors” of a ship are its identifying flags: “It turned out that the door-to-door sales rep was sailing under false colors and was actually a swindler.”

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•  the word Tin is a short vowel sound.
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• A short vowel sound is the vowel pronunciation that is the sound of the letter, rather than the name of the vowel in the alphabet.
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  Passive voice is used here.

The correct past participle form is "spoken."

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In the sentence, "played" functions as the past participle of the verb "play."

The past participle is used in this context to form the passive voice ("was played"), indicating that:

the match was played by someone (the subject of the sentence is not specified)

and then shown on TV.

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"Bright" describes the noun "sun", giving more detail about its appearance.

Words that describe nouns or pronouns are called adjectives.

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•  He received the letter yesterday اس نے کل خط موصول کیا
• This sentence belongs to Past Indefinite Tense because it has 'yesterday'.
• Formula of Past Indefinite Tense (simple sentence):
• Subject + second form of a verb + object + (time)

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Cognates are words in different languages with a common origin or etymological root.

They often look similar and have similar meanings due to their shared ancestry.

For example,

the English word "mother" and the German word "Mutter" are cognates