5230_Week 5_Communicative Competence Quiz

1. “She was going to the store and buys some milk.”
What is the main grammatical issue?

• A. Subject–verb agreement error
  
  

• B. Tense shift

• C. Word order violation

• D. Article omission

2. 2. “He made a very success presentation.”
   What is the nature of the lexical error?

• A. Misused affixation

• B. Incorrect comparative form

• C. Word form error

• D. Collocational mismatch

3. The cat chased the mouse quickly down street.”
Which linguistic issue is present?

• A. Prepositional misuse

• B. Word class confusion

• C. Article omission

• D. Redundant adverbial placement

4. 4. You are writing to your course instructor. Read the message below:

   "Hi! Can you send me the slides ASAP? I was totally lost in class today."

   What is the main issue in this message?
   

• A. Illocutionary act misclassification

• B. Failure to maintain form-function alignment

• C. Register mismatch and stylistic inappropriateness

• D. Overuse of hedging and modal verbs

5. 5.“You are wrong. That’s not how we do it.”
   Which pragmatic issue is present?

• A. Failure to use a hedging device

• B. Incorrect turn-taking strategy

• C. Overuse of indirectness

• D. Ellipsis of politeness marker

6.“You must explain it again. I didn’t understand anything you said.”
What pragmatic issue is involved when a learner says the following to their teacher?

• A. Misuse of performative verbs

• B. Pragmatic transfer and sociopragmatic failure

• C. Overuse of indirectness in institutional discourse

• D. Discourse cohesion error due to substitution failure

7. 7. "Give me your notes after class. I missed the lecture.”

What is the main problem with this request?

• A. The illocutionary force is unclear

• B. The speech act is performed too directly for the context

• C. The request uses an inappropriate deixis

• D. The performative verb is misused

8. 8. Sorry, what does ‘sustainable’ mean?”
   What strategy is being used here?

• A. Appeal for assistance

• B. Clarification request

• C. Confirmation check

• D. Turn filler

9. 9. “That’s an interesting idea, but it won’t work in our school.”
   What is the speech act and the politeness strategy used?

• A. Indirect refusal with negative politeness

• B. Complaint with hedging

• C. Directive with face-threatening act

• D. Indirect request with overgeneralization

10. 10. “I lost the thing you write with — it’s like a pencil but with ink.”
    Which communication strategy is being used?

• A. Approximation

• B. Repetition

• C. Circumlocution

• D. Code-switching