Word order

Multiple-choice exercise

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Choose the best answer for each question

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