Word order

Multiple-choice exercise

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Choose the best answer for each question

  1. With this ring, I thee wed is an example of ...
    1.   VSO ordering in English
    2.   OSV ordering in English
    3.   OVS ordering in English
    4.   SOV ordering in English
  2. Scandinavian languages mostly have ...
    1.   VOS ordering
    2.   SVO ordering
    3.   OVS ordering
    4.   SOV ordering
  3. Languages with free or very flexible word order are ...
    1.   usually heavily inflected to show case
    2.   usually Romance or Slavonic
    3.   usually isolating and uninflected
    4.   usually Germanic, like English
  4. German and French have two canonical word orders which are ...
    1.   SVO and SOV
    2.   SOV and OSV
    3.   VOS and OVS
    4.   OSV and SVO
  5. French and English both exhibit ...
    1.   Noun-Genitive ordering
    2.   Genitive-Noun ordering
  6. How many basic arrangements of S, V and O are possible?
    1.   4
    2.   6
    3.   8
    4.   9
  7. Turkish and Japanese both have ...
    1.   prepositions
    2.   postpositions
  8. In the sentence He kissed Mary, how do we know who kissed whom?
    1.   By the position of the verb phrase
    2.   By the ordering of the noun phrases and the form of the pronoun
    3.   By the ordering of the noun phrases
  9. Most languages on earth are either ...
    1.   SVO or VOS ordered
    2.   VOS or SOV ordered
    3.   SVO or OVS ordered
    4.   SVO or SOV ordered
  10. Hungarian, Japanese and Korean have ...
    1.   VOS ordering
    2.   SOV ordering
    3.   OVS ordering
    4.   SVO ordering