Delta Module One: Lexis Barrier Test

Which of the following contains a dynamic adjective?
1. The children are being disruptive
2. The children are obnoxious
3. The children are happy
4. The children are too young yet
In the sentence:
She thought what I said was idiotic.
The adjective modifies:
1. the clause what I said
2. the speaker
3. the act of speaking
4. she
The word pane in:
A pane of glass
is:
1. a restricted partitive
2. a typical partitive
3. a general partitive
4. a classifier
In the sentence:
His house is now much more comfortable.
we have:
1. a periphrastic comparative
2. an inflected superlative
3. an inflected comparative
4. a periphrastic superlative
In the word:
unpleasantness
we have:
1. two bound and one free morpheme
2. three bound morphemes
3. two free and one bound morpheme
4. three free morphemes
Polysemy refers to:
1. the fact that a word or phrase can have a variety of related meanings
2. the fact that some words look and sound the same but are unrelated and have different, unrelated meanings
3. the fact that some words only have one possible meaning
4. the fact that some words are spelled the same but pronounced differently
The preposition in:
be in danger
is used:
1. metaphorically
2. as a simile
3. as a pro-form
4. independently of its meaning
In the sentence:
Placing a particle of sodium in water results in the production of hydrogen.
we have a case:
1. non-finite clausal nominalisation
2. finite clausal nominalisation
3. phrase nominalisation
4. sentence nominalisation
In the sentence:
That's John, the boss.
we have:
1. two nouns in apposition
2. one pre- and one post-modified noun
3. two synonyms
4. one hyponym and one superordinate
In the expression:
half a loaf
we have:
1. a noun, a determiner and a pre-determiner
2. two nouns and a determiner
3. three nouns
4. one noun, a predeterminer and a quantifier
In the sentence:
To my surprise, she came on time.
the prepositional phrase is acting as:
1. a disjunct
2. a place marker
3. a conjunct
4. a preposition without its complement
In the word:
transatlantic
we have:
1. a bound locative morpheme
2. a derivational affix
3. a prefix of degree
4. a single morpheme
The suffix -wards
makes:
1. an adverb from a noun
2. an adjective from a noun
3. a locative preposition
4. a preposition from an adjective
We allow very frightened but not very enlarged because:
1. very cannot pre-modify verbal participles
2. very cannot pre-modify adjectival participles
3. very cannot pre-modify adverbs
4. very cannot pre-modify verbs
The expression:
He is the black sheep of the family
cannot be understood by knowing the meanings of the individual words. This is an example of:
1. non-compositionality
2. compositionality
3. simile
4. transparency

Delta Module One: Lexis Barrier Test

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