WGU SLO1 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 300
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
2025 (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED
A+||BRAND NEW!!.
Syntax - ......answer.....Part of grammar that represents a speakers knowledge of
sentences and their structures
Rules of Syntax - ......answer.....Understanding how to combine words into
phrases; phrases into sentences
Rules of Syntax: Correct Word Order - ......answer.....Understanding grammatical
vs. ungrammatical
Rules of Syntax: Meaning - ......answer.....Understanding the meaning of a
particular groups of words and how to arrange the group of words
Syntactic Categories - ......answer.....A group of expressions that can substitute
for one another without the loss of grammaticiality.
Noun Phrase (NP) - ......answer.....The name of a syntactic category that consists
of proper names, pronouns, and all other expressions with the same syntactic
distribution.
,Determiner - ......answer.....words that introduce noun phrases, articles such as
"A, The"
Verb Phrase - ......answer.....The name of a syntactic category that is always a
verb; (some times a preposition will come before a verb)
Demonstrative - ......answer.....this, that, these, those
every, each - counting words
Auxiliary (verb) - ......answer.....have, had, be, was, were [to be verbs]
Modals - ......answer.....can, could, shall, should, will, would, may, might, must -
verbs that express mood or tense
subject - ......answer.....who or what the sentence is about
direct object - ......answer.....receives the action of the verb
Dialect - ......answer.....a form of language spoken by people in a particular region
or group
,Pidgin - ......answer.....Language that may develop when two groups of people
with different languages meet. The pidgin has some characteristics of each
language.
Creole - ......answer.....When children learn the pidgin language as their first
language
accent - ......answer.....the manner in which people speak and the way words are
pronounced in different parts of the world
Prestige Variety of a Language - ......answer.....The dominant or standard dialect
of a region.
America = Standard American English
(most people speak a dialect, usually no one speaks the "prestige")
"The Standard" - SAE - ......answer.....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 - ......answer.....informal language; everyone uses but difficult to define
Register - ......answer.....Code Switching
, You speak differently at work, with family, with friends.
Euphemism - ......answer.....An indirect, less offensive way of saying something
that is considered unpleasant.
Die vs. Pass Away
language and sexism - ......answer.....Male words = empowering
Female words = demeaning
Morphology - ......answer.....The study of words
Morphemes - ......answer.....internal word structures
morph = ology
derivational morphemes - ......answer.....prefixes and suffixes added to root words
to create derived words
(bound morpheme)
inflectional morphemes - ......answer.....suffix added to a word
shows tense, number, possession, or comparision
ending of word
EX: -ing, -s, -es, -est
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
2025 (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED
A+||BRAND NEW!!.
Syntax - ......answer.....Part of grammar that represents a speakers knowledge of
sentences and their structures
Rules of Syntax - ......answer.....Understanding how to combine words into
phrases; phrases into sentences
Rules of Syntax: Correct Word Order - ......answer.....Understanding grammatical
vs. ungrammatical
Rules of Syntax: Meaning - ......answer.....Understanding the meaning of a
particular groups of words and how to arrange the group of words
Syntactic Categories - ......answer.....A group of expressions that can substitute
for one another without the loss of grammaticiality.
Noun Phrase (NP) - ......answer.....The name of a syntactic category that consists
of proper names, pronouns, and all other expressions with the same syntactic
distribution.
,Determiner - ......answer.....words that introduce noun phrases, articles such as
"A, The"
Verb Phrase - ......answer.....The name of a syntactic category that is always a
verb; (some times a preposition will come before a verb)
Demonstrative - ......answer.....this, that, these, those
every, each - counting words
Auxiliary (verb) - ......answer.....have, had, be, was, were [to be verbs]
Modals - ......answer.....can, could, shall, should, will, would, may, might, must -
verbs that express mood or tense
subject - ......answer.....who or what the sentence is about
direct object - ......answer.....receives the action of the verb
Dialect - ......answer.....a form of language spoken by people in a particular region
or group
,Pidgin - ......answer.....Language that may develop when two groups of people
with different languages meet. The pidgin has some characteristics of each
language.
Creole - ......answer.....When children learn the pidgin language as their first
language
accent - ......answer.....the manner in which people speak and the way words are
pronounced in different parts of the world
Prestige Variety of a Language - ......answer.....The dominant or standard dialect
of a region.
America = Standard American English
(most people speak a dialect, usually no one speaks the "prestige")
"The Standard" - SAE - ......answer.....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 - ......answer.....informal language; everyone uses but difficult to define
Register - ......answer.....Code Switching
, You speak differently at work, with family, with friends.
Euphemism - ......answer.....An indirect, less offensive way of saying something
that is considered unpleasant.
Die vs. Pass Away
language and sexism - ......answer.....Male words = empowering
Female words = demeaning
Morphology - ......answer.....The study of words
Morphemes - ......answer.....internal word structures
morph = ology
derivational morphemes - ......answer.....prefixes and suffixes added to root words
to create derived words
(bound morpheme)
inflectional morphemes - ......answer.....suffix added to a word
shows tense, number, possession, or comparision
ending of word
EX: -ing, -s, -es, -est
