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51.
Which of the following sentences contains errors in syntax?
  1. There sister who moved to Florida last year works with her husband in real estate.
  2. Every day my brother older eats at home lunch.
  3. We cannot go swimming because the waters are too deep and there are too much waves.
  4. I was boring in school today, but then we singed a funny song.
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52.
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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53.
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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54.
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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55.
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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