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1 What is the most common word in English?

A) Is

B) A

C) And

D) The

2 What is an antonym for 'dark'?

A) Clear

B) Bright

C) Heavy

D) Light

3 What is the difference between 'principal' and 'principle'?

A) Principle is a person

B) Principal means main or a

C) They are identical

D) Principal is a rule

4 What is a loanword?

A) word adopted from

B) A borrowed book

C) A temporary word

D) A slang term

5 What is the oldest known written language?

A) Chinese

B) Sanskrit

C) Sumerian

D) Egyptian

6 What is the term for a regional variety of a language?

A) Jargon

B) Pidgin

C) Dialect

D) Slang

7 What is an infinitive in English grammar?

A) The past tense of a verb

B) A plural noun

C) A type of pronoun

D) base form of a verb

8 What is the term for a word that sounds like what it describes?

A) Hyperbole

B) Simile

C) Onomatopoeia

D) Metaphor

9 What do we call a word that names a thing?

A) Noun

B) Verb

C) Prefix

D) Adverb

10 What is the oldest known writing system?

A) Greek alphabet

B) Sumerian cuneiform

C) Egyptian hieroglyphs

D) Chinese characters

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1 What is the most common word in English?

2 What is an antonym for 'dark'?

3 What is the difference between 'principal' and 'principle'?

4 What is a loanword?

5 What is the oldest known written language?

6 What is the term for a regional variety of a language?

7 What is an infinitive in English grammar?

8 What is the term for a word that sounds like what it describes?

9 What do we call a word that names a thing?

10 What is the oldest known writing system?

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1 What is the most common word in English?

2 What is an antonym for 'dark'?

3 What is the difference between 'principal' and 'principle'?

4 What is a loanword?

5 What is the oldest known written language?

6 What is the term for a regional variety of a language?

7 What is an infinitive in English grammar?

8 What is the term for a word that sounds like what it describes?

9 What do we call a word that names a thing?

10 What is the oldest known writing system?

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