Language Development Review Final Exam

Identify the part of speech of the underlined word from the choices provided

Goodnight, I am going to bed

progressive tense

Identify the underlined word as a copula, auxiliary or neither

She’s tired

copula

Identify the underlined structure

He’s right here on the couch eating cookies.

prepositional phra

What part of speech is the following underlined word?

I’m hungry

subjective pronoun with contracted copula

Identify the underlined part of speech in the following utterance

The baby built it for the dolls

regular plural-object

Identify the underlined word in the following utterance

He ate all the donuts

irregular past tense

What form is MISSING from the following utterance?

I buying a new dress!

auxiliary

What clauses are contained in the following utterance?

It’s not yours so you cannot have it.

two independent clauses

What type of sentence is the following utterance?

He’s always late but he wants to play.

compound

According to MLU rules, what is the total number of morphemes in the following utterance.

Dan’s helping me.

5

According to MLU rules, what is the total number of morphemes in the following utterance?

Joey plays with the train and says choo-choo.

10

According to MLU rules, what is the total number of morphemes in the following utterance?

They’re buying two puppies today

8

What type of sentence is the following utterance?

• I’m gonna be a speech language pathologist in schools.

simple

Type Token Ratio is a measure of: (Select two that are correct)

• semantic skills

• pragmatic skills

• lexical diversity

• phonological awareness

semantic skills and lexical diversity

The pragmatic checklist is a measure of: (Select the two that are correct).

• Communicative functions of utterances based on the form of those utterances and their use in conversation

• Pragmatic skills

• Use of syntactical structures

• Semantic diversity

Pragmatic skills and communicative functions of utterances based on the form of those utterances and their use in conversation

Identify the underlined phrase in the following utterance:

She had to clean her car

infinitive phrase

How many independent clauses are in the following utterance?

She failed her test but she will complete the extra credit

2

Identify the underlined word in the following utterance.

The dog ran quickly

adverb

Identify the underlined word in the following utterance.

These are yucky vegetables.

adjective

Identify the underlined word in the following utterance.

She plays with her hamsters

possessive pronoun

Identify the underlined word in the following utterance.

I ate my cosmic brownie

irregular past tense verb

On the Type Token Ratio, the word “did” would be coded as a:

I did not hit him, Mommy!

verb

On the Type Token Ratio, the word “since” would be coded as:

I gotta drink water since I ran 2 miles

conjunction

What is the unlined part of speech in the following sentence:

Do you know that it’s almost Christmas?

contracted copula

What is the object in the following sentence?

I really want to have a pet.

pet

Out of the measures studied, which measure does NOT include normative data?

• Mean Length of Utterance

• Pragmatic checklist

• Type Token Ratio

Pragmatic Checklist

If a child has a very diverse lexicon, that child is demonstrating skills in what area of language?

Semantics

Measuring MLU on a sample of a child’s language assesses what area of language?

morphology

Referring to your knowledge of grammatical morphemes, what are the two first prepositions acquired?

on, in

If a child has a chronological age of 4 years, 8 months, what is the total age in months?

56 months

Subject

Performs the action described by the verb

Object

Represents the person or thing that is affected by the action

Subject v. Object

Subjects perform actions and objects have actions performed onto them

Irregular past tense

Verbs that do not form their past tense by adding the suffix “-ed” or “-d”

Irregular plural

nouns that do not follow the standard pattern of becoming plural by addind an “s” or “es” to the end

Progressive tense

A verb tense that describes an action that is ongoing or continuous. Formed by adding “ing” to the end of a verb and using a form of the verb “be” as an auxiliary verb. (Ex. “am”, “are”, or “is” for present progressive and “was” or “were” for past progressive and “will be” for future progressive)

Subordinate clause

dependent

Complex sentence

A sentence that combines an independent clause with at least one dependent clause

Compound-complex sentences

A sentence that has at least two independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses

Infinitive

A group of words that includes an infinitive and other words that modify it such as pronouns, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions. These phrases can function as nouns, adjectives or adverbs.

Ex. In “We intended to leave early.” the infinitive phrase “to leave early” functions as the direct object of the verb “intended

The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story

By John Freeman

Identify the type of conjunction in the following sentence:

The llama is tall but the goat is short

Coordinating Conjunctions

Identify the underlined part of the following sentence:

She turned into a frog when the frog kissed her

Dependent clause

Identify the type of conjunction in the following sentence:

He said that he would buy me a bulldog: however, he never did!

Adverbial

What type of conjunction is the following:

I am sad because neither I nor my mom can go

Correlative

What type of conjunction is the following:

We’re gonna put them in the oven only if it preheats to 350 degrees

Subordinating

What type of conjunction is the following:

I don’t know the man who sells the pumpkins

relative pronouns

The following are examples of what kind of determiners:

Mine, yours, his, hers, yours

possessives

What is the conjunction and conjunction type in the following sentence:

They will go to Disney as soon as they finish

as soon as - subordinate