TeXes ESL Supplemental 154 Exam
Comp 1 and Texas Teacher Certification
Practice EC-6 Exam Merger A+ Graded.
1. Phonetics - Correct Answers: ✔✔study of sounds
2. Phonology - Correct Answers: ✔✔study of words
3. Phonemes - Correct Answers: ✔✔the smallest unit of meaningful sound
4. Allophones - Correct Answers: ✔✔sounds that occur in a particular environment - accent- the
accent changes not the meaning
5. Suprasegmentals - Correct Answers: ✔✔words that you say which can go up or down. Example-
Would you like some strawberries? - Your pitch is higher at the end of the word strawberry.
6. Morphology - Correct Answers: ✔✔The system of how words are built or word formation.
7. Morphemes - Correct Answers: ✔✔the smallest unit of language that carries information aboit
meaning or function- affixes.
8. Allomorphs - Correct Answers: ✔✔"a" vs, "an" and "-s" vs. "-es"
9. Lexemes - Correct Answers: ✔✔nouns, verbs, adjectives serve as roots for additional meaning
10. Lexicon - Correct Answers: ✔✔vocabulary of a certain language- free and bound morphemes
11. Syntax - Correct Answers: ✔✔sentence structure
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,12. Semantics - Correct Answers: ✔✔the meaning of words
13. Pragmatics - Correct Answers: ✔✔words in social context
14. Discourse - Correct Answers: ✔✔formal vs informal language
15. Language Borrowing - Correct Answers: ✔✔words that we borrow from other languages (eg.
sombrero/shade and barbecue/barbacoa)
16. Language Interference - Correct Answers: ✔✔When someones L1 gets in the way of L2 because of
phonological and syntatical differences.
17. Code Switching - Correct Answers: ✔✔alternate use of two languages- both languages may be
used in a sentence.
18. Nouns - Correct Answers: ✔✔person, place, or things
19. Pronouns - Correct Answers: ✔✔takes the place of a noun
20. Articles - Correct Answers: ✔✔a, and, the
21. Adjectives - Correct Answers: ✔✔describe nouns
22. Adverbs - Correct Answers: ✔✔descbries, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives
23. Verbs - Correct Answers: ✔✔action words (ad -ed for past)
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, 24. Irregular Verbs - Correct Answers: ✔✔verbs that do not have rules grow, grew, grown and have,
had, had
25. Gerunds - Correct Answers: ✔✔verb + ing
26. Objects - Correct Answers: ✔✔a noun or pronoun that gives meaning to the subject and verb of
the sentence
27. Present Progressive - Correct Answers: ✔✔defines an action of doing something now
28. Third Person Singular - Correct Answers: ✔✔`Verbs that take the "s" suffix when the subject is in
third person
29. Example: Peter (he) drives five miles everyday.
30. Voice - Correct Answers: ✔✔Active- subject is the do-er
31. Passive- action is the focus, not the subject
32. Free Morpheme - Correct Answers: ✔✔cannot split words (eg. complete)
33. Bound Morpheme - Correct Answers: ✔✔can split (eg. incomplete)
34. Phonemes - Correct Answers: ✔✔Basic units of sound (about 44 in English)
35. Semantics - Correct Answers: ✔✔The ways in which meaning is generated in a language
36. Syntax - Correct Answers: ✔✔How words can be placed together
37. Phonology - Correct Answers: ✔✔Study of the sound system of language
38. Graphemes - Correct Answers: ✔✔individual letters
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Comp 1 and Texas Teacher Certification
Practice EC-6 Exam Merger A+ Graded.
1. Phonetics - Correct Answers: ✔✔study of sounds
2. Phonology - Correct Answers: ✔✔study of words
3. Phonemes - Correct Answers: ✔✔the smallest unit of meaningful sound
4. Allophones - Correct Answers: ✔✔sounds that occur in a particular environment - accent- the
accent changes not the meaning
5. Suprasegmentals - Correct Answers: ✔✔words that you say which can go up or down. Example-
Would you like some strawberries? - Your pitch is higher at the end of the word strawberry.
6. Morphology - Correct Answers: ✔✔The system of how words are built or word formation.
7. Morphemes - Correct Answers: ✔✔the smallest unit of language that carries information aboit
meaning or function- affixes.
8. Allomorphs - Correct Answers: ✔✔"a" vs, "an" and "-s" vs. "-es"
9. Lexemes - Correct Answers: ✔✔nouns, verbs, adjectives serve as roots for additional meaning
10. Lexicon - Correct Answers: ✔✔vocabulary of a certain language- free and bound morphemes
11. Syntax - Correct Answers: ✔✔sentence structure
Exam with Answers.
,12. Semantics - Correct Answers: ✔✔the meaning of words
13. Pragmatics - Correct Answers: ✔✔words in social context
14. Discourse - Correct Answers: ✔✔formal vs informal language
15. Language Borrowing - Correct Answers: ✔✔words that we borrow from other languages (eg.
sombrero/shade and barbecue/barbacoa)
16. Language Interference - Correct Answers: ✔✔When someones L1 gets in the way of L2 because of
phonological and syntatical differences.
17. Code Switching - Correct Answers: ✔✔alternate use of two languages- both languages may be
used in a sentence.
18. Nouns - Correct Answers: ✔✔person, place, or things
19. Pronouns - Correct Answers: ✔✔takes the place of a noun
20. Articles - Correct Answers: ✔✔a, and, the
21. Adjectives - Correct Answers: ✔✔describe nouns
22. Adverbs - Correct Answers: ✔✔descbries, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives
23. Verbs - Correct Answers: ✔✔action words (ad -ed for past)
Exam with Answers.
, 24. Irregular Verbs - Correct Answers: ✔✔verbs that do not have rules grow, grew, grown and have,
had, had
25. Gerunds - Correct Answers: ✔✔verb + ing
26. Objects - Correct Answers: ✔✔a noun or pronoun that gives meaning to the subject and verb of
the sentence
27. Present Progressive - Correct Answers: ✔✔defines an action of doing something now
28. Third Person Singular - Correct Answers: ✔✔`Verbs that take the "s" suffix when the subject is in
third person
29. Example: Peter (he) drives five miles everyday.
30. Voice - Correct Answers: ✔✔Active- subject is the do-er
31. Passive- action is the focus, not the subject
32. Free Morpheme - Correct Answers: ✔✔cannot split words (eg. complete)
33. Bound Morpheme - Correct Answers: ✔✔can split (eg. incomplete)
34. Phonemes - Correct Answers: ✔✔Basic units of sound (about 44 in English)
35. Semantics - Correct Answers: ✔✔The ways in which meaning is generated in a language
36. Syntax - Correct Answers: ✔✔How words can be placed together
37. Phonology - Correct Answers: ✔✔Study of the sound system of language
38. Graphemes - Correct Answers: ✔✔individual letters
Exam with Answers.
