This assessment consists of ten multiple choice questions. Select the best answer to each question. If you are not sure of the correct answer, take your best guess. Each question has only one correct answer.

1. Which of the following statements about the terms morphology and syntax is accurate?

  • Morphology is a branch of syntax.
  • Syntax relates to the form of words while morphology relates to word order.
  • Morphology relates to the form of words while syntax relates to word order.
  • Morphology refers to the spelling of words while syntax is concerned with the meaning of words.
  • Both morphology and syntax are synonyms for grammar.

2. How would a speaker of African-American English likely express the Standard English sentence I know he goes there?

  • I know he be going there.
  • I knows he goes there.
  • I know he go there.
  • I know he finna go there.
  • None of the above.

3. How would a speaker of African-American English likely express the Standard English phrase my brother’s house?

  • My brother’s house (the same as in Standard English)
  • My brother house
  • My brother his house
  • My’s brother’s house
  • My’s brother house

4. How would a speaker of African-American English likely ask the Standard English sentence How did you do that?

  • How do you that?
  • How did you done that?
  • How’d you did that?
  • How’d you do that?
  • How you did that?

5. Which of the following sentences is grammatical in (i.e., follows the rules of) African-American English?

  • He might could do it.
  • He could might do it.
  • He can might do it.
  • He can may do it.
  • None of these sentences is grammatical in African-American English.

6. What does a speaker of African-American English mean when she says We good.

  • We were good.
  • We’ll be good.
  • We’re being good.
  • We’re good.
  • No speaker of African-American English is likely to say this.

7. Which of the following is the closest Standard English equivalent of the African-American English sentence I be telling her that?

  • I’m telling her that.
  • I used to tell her that.
  • I’ll be telling her that soon.
  • I tell her that all the time.
  • I’m telling her that right now.

8. Which of the following African-American English sentences happened the longest ago (farthest back in time)?

  • I been done finished it.
  • I been finishing it.
  • I done finished it.
  • Im’a be done finishing it.
  • It’s impossible to know without additional contextual information.

9. Which of the following African-American English sentences is the most emphatic?

  • I’m telling you the truth!
  • I telling you the truth!
  • I be telling you the truth!
  • I’m is telling you the truth!
  • The sentences above are equally emphatic.

10. In which of the following sentences, as spoken in African-American English, has the verbal action already occurred?

  • We boutta go.
  • We tryna go.
  • We ain’t go.
  • We finna go.
  • The verbal action has not yet occurred in any of the sentences above.