1)Sanraj is in college and wants to learn a second language. According to research, which of the following will describe his experience?
A) Learning a second language in college will be easier than learning it in childhood.
B)Learning a second language in childhood would have been easier than in college.
C)Sanraj's speech will likely be indistinguishable from a native speaker.
D)Sanraj is still in the critical period for language development so he will learn the language easily.
2. Which of the following accurately describes the relationship between the theory of universal grammar and acquisition of a second language?
A)The theory of universal grammar makes language acquisition difficult because each language has its own rules.
B)The theory of universal grammar supports language acquisition because all languages share a similar structure.
C)Acquisition of a second language is difficult because according to the theory of universal grammar, grammar can only be mastered during childhood.
D)Acquisition of a second language is easier because according to the theory of universal grammar, all children intuitively understand grammar rules.
3.Which of the following is an example of the use of morphemes?
A)Sounding out cat using the sounds of c-a-t
B)"The green house" instead of "the house green"
C)Adding an "e" at the end of "hop" makes "hope"
D)"Investigating" means "to investigate presently"

1) According to research, the sentence that will describe Sanraj’s experience of learning a second language in college is the one that reads “Learning a second language in college will be easier than learning it in childhood” (option letter A). In the chapter “How do we Learn Grammar?” of his book “English in Use” (1991), Quirk argues that we gain knowledge of grammar even before going to school. Moreover, he mentions that a child achieves insights even without explicit teaching, for instance, insights of analogy, concord, aspect, among others. This is why we can say that it will be easier to learn a second language in childhood, as all this insights enhance the explicit learning we are given.

2) The correct sentence that accurately describes the relationship between the theory of universal grammar and acquisition of a second language is the one in option letter B (The theory of universal grammar supports language acquisition because all languages share a similar structure). Although languages differ in many ways, they are all processed by the brain in the same way. In other words, languages share certain fundamental design features and structural characteristics that enable them to work the way they do.

3) The sentence that is an example of the use of morphemes is the one in option letter C (Adding an "e" at the end of "hop" makes "hope"). By definition, morphemes are the smallest meaningful constituents of a linguistic expression. For instance, if the word “reads” is segmented into individually meaningful parts “read” + “s”, those parts are called morphemes. In the case of the example of this correct answer, the morpheme “e” has been attached to the morpheme “hop” and together they make up the word “hope”.