SLO1 WGU ACTUAL TEST PAPER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Head of phrase - ✔✔the word whose lexical category defines the type of phrase
✔✔Determiner - ✔✔functional category that includes the articles a and the, as well as
demonstratives such as this, that, these, and those. Also includes counting words: each
and every.
✔✔Auxillary - ✔✔functional category that includes the verbs have, had, be,. was, and
were, and the modals (may, might, can, could, must, shall, should, will, and would)
✔✔Subject - ✔✔who or what the sentence is about
✔✔Direct object - ✔✔a noun or pronoun that receives the action of the verb
✔✔present perfect - ✔✔is formed by using have/has + past principle.
"I have seen the Barbie movie"
✔✔present principle - ✔✔is when a verb ends in -ing
✔✔gerund - ✔✔a noun formed from a verb (such as the '-ing' form of an English verb
when used as a noun)
✔✔complement - ✔✔a word, phrase, or clause that is necessary to complete the
meaning of a given expession
✔✔object - ✔✔Noun or pronoun that is affected by the verb. <The man read the
✔✔linguistic competence - ✔✔what we know
✔✔linguistic performance - ✔✔how we use this knowledge in actual speech production
and comprehension
✔✔descriptive grammar - ✔✔represents the unconscious linguistic knowledge or
capacity of its speakers
✔✔mental grammar - ✔✔describes the rules that are already known. It does not teach
the rules of language
✔✔prescriptive grammar - ✔✔a grammar that attempts to legislate what your grammar
should be
, ✔✔Universal Grammar (UG) - ✔✔Noam Chomsky/Aspects of the Theory of Syntax:
belief that language acquisition was innate--not acquired.
✔✔corpus callosum - ✔✔allows the two hemispheres of the brain to communicate with
each other
✔✔Aphasia - ✔✔the neurological term for any language disorder that results from brain
damage caused by disease or trauma
✔✔Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis - ✔✔the idea that language structures thought and that
ways of looking at the world are embedded in language
✔✔Broca's aphasia - ✔✔condition resulting from damage to Broca's area, causing the
affected person to be unable to speak fluently, to mispronounce words, and to speak
haltingly
✔✔Wernicke's aphasia - ✔✔condition resulting from damage to Wernicke's area,
causing the affected person to be unable to understand or produce meaningful
language
✔✔Neurolinguistics - ✔✔The study of the brain mechanisms and anatomical structures
that underlie language competence, development, and performance.
✔✔cortex - ✔✔the surface of the brain
✔✔localization - ✔✔the idea that different human cognitive abilities and behaviors are
localized in specific parts of the brain
✔✔phrenology - ✔✔the practice of determining personality traits, intellectual capacities,
and other matters by examining the "bumps" on the skull
✔✔tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon (TOT) - ✔✔knowing a word, but not being able to
immediately recall it
✔✔Anomia - ✔✔inability to name things
✔✔Specific Language Impairment (SLI) - ✔✔when only someone's linguistic ability is
affected, and often only specific aspects of grammar are impaired
✔✔Critical Age Hypothesis - ✔✔The theory that states that there is a window of time
between early childhood and puberty for learning a first language, and beyond which
first language acquisition is almost always incomplete.
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Head of phrase - ✔✔the word whose lexical category defines the type of phrase
✔✔Determiner - ✔✔functional category that includes the articles a and the, as well as
demonstratives such as this, that, these, and those. Also includes counting words: each
and every.
✔✔Auxillary - ✔✔functional category that includes the verbs have, had, be,. was, and
were, and the modals (may, might, can, could, must, shall, should, will, and would)
✔✔Subject - ✔✔who or what the sentence is about
✔✔Direct object - ✔✔a noun or pronoun that receives the action of the verb
✔✔present perfect - ✔✔is formed by using have/has + past principle.
"I have seen the Barbie movie"
✔✔present principle - ✔✔is when a verb ends in -ing
✔✔gerund - ✔✔a noun formed from a verb (such as the '-ing' form of an English verb
when used as a noun)
✔✔complement - ✔✔a word, phrase, or clause that is necessary to complete the
meaning of a given expession
✔✔object - ✔✔Noun or pronoun that is affected by the verb. <The man read the
✔✔linguistic competence - ✔✔what we know
✔✔linguistic performance - ✔✔how we use this knowledge in actual speech production
and comprehension
✔✔descriptive grammar - ✔✔represents the unconscious linguistic knowledge or
capacity of its speakers
✔✔mental grammar - ✔✔describes the rules that are already known. It does not teach
the rules of language
✔✔prescriptive grammar - ✔✔a grammar that attempts to legislate what your grammar
should be
, ✔✔Universal Grammar (UG) - ✔✔Noam Chomsky/Aspects of the Theory of Syntax:
belief that language acquisition was innate--not acquired.
✔✔corpus callosum - ✔✔allows the two hemispheres of the brain to communicate with
each other
✔✔Aphasia - ✔✔the neurological term for any language disorder that results from brain
damage caused by disease or trauma
✔✔Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis - ✔✔the idea that language structures thought and that
ways of looking at the world are embedded in language
✔✔Broca's aphasia - ✔✔condition resulting from damage to Broca's area, causing the
affected person to be unable to speak fluently, to mispronounce words, and to speak
haltingly
✔✔Wernicke's aphasia - ✔✔condition resulting from damage to Wernicke's area,
causing the affected person to be unable to understand or produce meaningful
language
✔✔Neurolinguistics - ✔✔The study of the brain mechanisms and anatomical structures
that underlie language competence, development, and performance.
✔✔cortex - ✔✔the surface of the brain
✔✔localization - ✔✔the idea that different human cognitive abilities and behaviors are
localized in specific parts of the brain
✔✔phrenology - ✔✔the practice of determining personality traits, intellectual capacities,
and other matters by examining the "bumps" on the skull
✔✔tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon (TOT) - ✔✔knowing a word, but not being able to
immediately recall it
✔✔Anomia - ✔✔inability to name things
✔✔Specific Language Impairment (SLI) - ✔✔when only someone's linguistic ability is
affected, and often only specific aspects of grammar are impaired
✔✔Critical Age Hypothesis - ✔✔The theory that states that there is a window of time
between early childhood and puberty for learning a first language, and beyond which
first language acquisition is almost always incomplete.
