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