6. The illocutionary point of ______ has the characteristic that the successful performance of an act of this kind brings about the correspondence between what is said and reality. ( )
A. directives B. declarations
C. commissives D. representatives
7. Old English had a rich case-ending system, e.g., Old English noun had four cases, i.e., nominative, genetive, dative and ______. ( )
A. possessive B. vocative
C. accusative D. locative
8. ______ dialects are characteristic of a particular type of linguistic activity and appropriate for use in particular speech situations. ( )
A. Social B. Ethnic
C. Regional D. Situational
9. Lying under the skull, the human brain contains an average of ten billion nerve cells called ______.( )
A. nerve fibers B. nerves
C. neurons D. cerebral cortex
10. By the time children are going beyond the ______ stage, they begin to incorporate some of the inflectional morphemes. ( )
A. telegraphic B. multiword
C. two-word D. one-word
