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6.
Use the sentence below to answer the question that follows.

As soon as they got to school , the students fed the fish in the classroom's aquarium. The underlined portion of the sentence is an example of: 
  1. A verb phrase.
  2. An adverbial clause.
  3. A noun phrase.
  4. A relative clause.
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7.
Familiarity with the pragmatics of a language would best help a language learner understand which of the following aspects of the language?
  1. The rules governing the use of inflectional and derivational affixes in the language.
  2. The role of intentional silence in interpersonal interactions in the language.
  3. The ways in which positive statements can be negated in the language.
  4. The influence of other languages on the historical development of the language.
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8.
While conducting research on a controversial issue for a class assignment, a high school student who is a proficient English speaker finds a legal brief that addresses his research topic. Although he reads above grade level in English, he has significant difficulty comprehending the language of the legal brief. This example best illustrates which of the following sociolinguistic concepts?
  1. Language functions.
  2. Dialect Diversity.
  3. Idiomatic language.
  4. Register variation.
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9.
An English language learner observes that some native English speakers drop the third person singular inflection -s from present tense verbs and asks an ESL teacher for an explanation. The teacher could best address the student's inquiry in the context of a discussion about:
  1. Dialect diversity in English.
  2. Irregular verb forms in English.
  3. Grammatical complexity in English.
  4. Connected speech in English.
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10.
Use the passage below to answer the question that follows.

He was a hard, stubborn old man. A smile rarely broke through the hard features of his face. He had worked hard all his life, but life had been hard on him. It never gave him a break. He struggled to break the hard ground year after year. He asked the earth to give a little back, but it repeatedly broke his heart. He took it hard.

This passage best illustrates which of the following concepts related to English vocabulary that can pose challenges for English language learners' comprehension and development of communicative language competence?
  1. High-frequency English words often have difficult pronunciations.
  2. English speakers tend to use academic words infrequently in everyday social interactions.
  3. High-frequency English words often have multiple meanings.
  4. English speakers tend to use colloquialisms and figures of speech frequently.
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