Top 80+ Solved History of English Language MCQ Questions Answer
Q. The New English Period has been known as……………
a. leveled inflections
b. lost inflection
c. less inflection
d. full inflection
Q. “ How barbarously we yet write and speak. Your lordship knows, and I am sufficientlysensible in my own English” Whose words are these?
a. tennyson
b. dryden
c. johnson
d. wordsworth
Q. in the 18th century the need for standardization and regulation of English was summed up inthe word………..
a. standardization
b. addition
c. ascertainment
d. regularization
Q. Who defined ascertainment as a “settled rule, an established standard.”
a. dryden
b. tennyson
c. swift
d. dr. johnson
Q. “ A proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue” is the title ofthe letter by ………….
a. swift
b. dryden
c. tennyson
d. dr. johnson
Q. Dr. Jonhson’s “ A Dictionary of the English Language” was published in ………
a. 1765
b. 1766
c. 1755
d. 1789
Q. Who is the author of “ A Dictionary of the English Language?
a. jonson
b. dr. johnson
c. swift
d. king james
Q. Who is the author of the book “Practical Grammar of the English Tongue”
a. william jones
b. werner
c. dr. johnson
d. william loughton
Q. “The Rudiment of English Grammar” was written by………
a. joseph priestley
b. william loughton
c. werner
d. dr. johnson
Q. Who is the author of “ The British Grammar”?
a. robert lowth
b. james buchanan
c. loughton
d. swift
Q. Who of the following announced that many languages came from one old base language?
a. sir william jones
b. sassetti
c. jacob grimm
d. joseph greenberg
Q. What was the second earliest form of language seen on earth?
a. cave drawings
b. cuneiform
c. english
d. indo- european
Q. During the Middle English period, many words were borrowed from which two languages?
a. celtic and old norse
b. latin and french
c. urdu and iroquoian
d. spanish and latin