SLO1 WGU EXAM SCRIPT 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔"The Standard" - SAE - ✔✔What everyone else is saying.
Vague "language" and not easily defined as dialects
The particular language that has social functions which is decided by the elite, wealthy,
influential, and popular
✔✔Slang - ✔✔informal language; everyone uses but difficult to define
✔✔Register - ✔✔Code Switching
You speak differently at work, with family, with friends.
✔✔Euphemism - ✔✔An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is
considered unpleasant.
Die vs. Pass Away
✔✔language and sexism - ✔✔Male words = empowering
Female words = demeaning
✔✔Morphology - ✔✔The study of words
✔✔Morphemes - ✔✔internal word structures
morph = ology
✔✔derivational morphemes - ✔✔prefixes and suffixes added to root words to create
derived words
(bound morpheme)
✔✔inflectional morphemes - ✔✔suffix added to a word
shows tense, number, possession, or comparision
ending of word
EX: -ing, -s, -es, -est
Represents the relationship between difference parts of the sentence
John is dancing = now
John danced = past
(bound morpheme)
✔✔bound morpheme - ✔✔CANNOT stand alone
, ✔✔Free (Unbound) Morphemes - ✔✔words that can stand alone and carry meaning in
language
✔✔coinage - ✔✔a newly invented word or phrase; podcast
✔✔Compounds (morphology) - ✔✔two words that are combined
✔✔Blended words - ✔✔Word that is made up of parts of words; Smog
✔✔Backformation - ✔✔the process of reducing a word such as a noun to a shorter
version and using it as a new word such as a verb (e.g. babysit from babysitter)
✔✔infix - ✔✔A type of bound morpheme that is inserted into the middle of the stem.
✔✔Logographic - ✔✔A system of writing in which each word is represented by a single
symbol, such as the Chinese script.
✔✔Consonantal - ✔✔A system of writing where symbols represent the consonants. The
readers must use knowledge of the language to supply the appropriate vowel.
✔✔Syllabic - ✔✔A system of writing where each syllable in the language is represented
by it's own syllable. Words are represented syllable by syllable.
✔✔Alphabetic - ✔✔A system of writing where both consonants and vowels are
represented by a symbol.
✔✔Rebus Principle - ✔✔Use of a symbol to represent a word.
✔✔Semantics - ✔✔The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their
historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one
another.
✔✔pragmatic - ✔✔Understanding how contexts affects meaning of a sentence.
"It's cold in here -> Close the window."
✔✔synonym - ✔✔A word that means the same as another word
✔✔antonym - ✔✔a word that means the opposite of another word
✔✔homonym - ✔✔word that sounds like another but differs in meaning and spelling
✔✔Deixis - ✔✔Words that are context-bound where meaning depends on who is being
referred to, where something is happening or when it is happening.
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔"The Standard" - SAE - ✔✔What everyone else is saying.
Vague "language" and not easily defined as dialects
The particular language that has social functions which is decided by the elite, wealthy,
influential, and popular
✔✔Slang - ✔✔informal language; everyone uses but difficult to define
✔✔Register - ✔✔Code Switching
You speak differently at work, with family, with friends.
✔✔Euphemism - ✔✔An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is
considered unpleasant.
Die vs. Pass Away
✔✔language and sexism - ✔✔Male words = empowering
Female words = demeaning
✔✔Morphology - ✔✔The study of words
✔✔Morphemes - ✔✔internal word structures
morph = ology
✔✔derivational morphemes - ✔✔prefixes and suffixes added to root words to create
derived words
(bound morpheme)
✔✔inflectional morphemes - ✔✔suffix added to a word
shows tense, number, possession, or comparision
ending of word
EX: -ing, -s, -es, -est
Represents the relationship between difference parts of the sentence
John is dancing = now
John danced = past
(bound morpheme)
✔✔bound morpheme - ✔✔CANNOT stand alone
, ✔✔Free (Unbound) Morphemes - ✔✔words that can stand alone and carry meaning in
language
✔✔coinage - ✔✔a newly invented word or phrase; podcast
✔✔Compounds (morphology) - ✔✔two words that are combined
✔✔Blended words - ✔✔Word that is made up of parts of words; Smog
✔✔Backformation - ✔✔the process of reducing a word such as a noun to a shorter
version and using it as a new word such as a verb (e.g. babysit from babysitter)
✔✔infix - ✔✔A type of bound morpheme that is inserted into the middle of the stem.
✔✔Logographic - ✔✔A system of writing in which each word is represented by a single
symbol, such as the Chinese script.
✔✔Consonantal - ✔✔A system of writing where symbols represent the consonants. The
readers must use knowledge of the language to supply the appropriate vowel.
✔✔Syllabic - ✔✔A system of writing where each syllable in the language is represented
by it's own syllable. Words are represented syllable by syllable.
✔✔Alphabetic - ✔✔A system of writing where both consonants and vowels are
represented by a symbol.
✔✔Rebus Principle - ✔✔Use of a symbol to represent a word.
✔✔Semantics - ✔✔The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their
historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one
another.
✔✔pragmatic - ✔✔Understanding how contexts affects meaning of a sentence.
"It's cold in here -> Close the window."
✔✔synonym - ✔✔A word that means the same as another word
✔✔antonym - ✔✔a word that means the opposite of another word
✔✔homonym - ✔✔word that sounds like another but differs in meaning and spelling
✔✔Deixis - ✔✔Words that are context-bound where meaning depends on who is being
referred to, where something is happening or when it is happening.
