Answer to the Cloze Test

Where more than one answer is given, the word in capital letters is the original word, and the other words are other acceptable answers. 

If you have an answer which you think is acceptable but which is not listed here, please see your instructor.

Chapter 5 Morphology
1. how
2. morphemes
3. smallest
4. morphemes
5. morphemes
6. other
7. to
8. MAKING, forming, creating
9. Derivational
10. are
11. as
12. acronyms
13. formation
14. CHANGING, shifting, turning
15. of
16. morphology
17. BUT, and
18. It
19. syntax
20. Function
21. RELATIONS, meaning, meanings
22. Function
23. languages
24. USE, have
25. of
26. plural
27. phonology
28. the
29. as
30. of
31. THEY, collocations
32. our
33. like
34. BE, become
35. language
36. KNOW, learn
37. combinations

Chapter 6 Syntax
1. ADDS, involves
2. that
3. class
4. BECAUSE, as
5. SENTENCE, syntactic
6. this
7. REVEALED, shown, demonstrated, found, seen
8. MADE, makes, illustrates, illustrated, stressed, stresses
9. of
10. BLEND, work, tied
11. approaches
12. DISCUSSED, examined, investigated, presented, mentioned
13. BEGINS, starts
14. syntax
15. ARE, include
16. insertion
17. to
18. LINGUISTICS, syntax
19. surface
20. DISCUSSED, examined, investigated, presented, mentioned
21. than
22. the
23. as
24. predicate
25. application
26. rules
27. in

Chapter 7 Semantics
1. of
2. ONTO, into, in, on
3. DISCOVERING, learning
4. STOCK, mount, body, range
5. be
6. are
7. how
8. MARKED, shown, presented
9. syntax
10. AND, or
11. AND, with, in
12. MEANING, meanings
13. have
14. AND, so
15. WITH, in, by
16. TO, with
17. BOTH, all
18. reference
19. of
20. things
21. CONNECTIONS, relations, relationships
22. IS, exists
23. utterance
24. OF, in
25. actual
26. sentence
27. we
28. analysis
29. of
30. utterance
31. proposition
32. as
33. what
34. DOING, intending
35. LINGUISTIC, language, semantic
36. CONVEYED, expressed, presented, borne
37. sentence
38. in
39. the
40. to

Chapter 8 Language Change
1. change
2. AND, or
3. syntactic
4. THE, Shakespearean
5. SENTENCE, syntactic
6. very
7. ENDINGS, forms, markings, marking
8. TIME, centuries, years, generations
9. VARIOUS, both, many
10. borrowing
11. English
12. great
13. IMPORTANT, influential
14. Words
15. THEY, words
16. SHIFT, change
17. MANY, several
18. change
19. DISCUSSED, mentioned, presented, examined
20. SOCIOPOLITICAL, historical, political, social
21. INVASION, conquest
22. REASONS, factors, causes, influences
23. to
24. the
25. speakers
26. and
27. words
28. MEANINGS, meaning
29. assimilation
30. of
31. and
32. to
33. for
34. speakers
35. the
36. to
37. time
38. easy
39. expressive
40. in
41. in
42. MAY, can
43. another