Wolf_grammar

I, Jamie Wolf, am a student from Dr. Christina Voss' English 300-2 Language Analysis class at SIUC. For my Fall 2008 project I am researching the effects socio-economic factors have on language and dialect in Southern Illinois. This survey does not need the consent of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) or Human Subjects Committee (HSC), because I am using this information as an in-class activity only; it is anonymous, and not for publication; I am not taking any blood samples; and I am not surveying minors. The deadline for taking this survey is Wednesday, November 12th, 2008. If you would like to receive the results of this survey, please feel free to email me at jamie.wolf@grammar300.com. This survey will take you about 10 minutes to complete. Thank you very much for your time.

1. Socio-economics and language in Southern Illinois

1. What is your gender?

2. What is your age group?

3. Which of the following best describes your ethnicity?

4. Which best describes your total household income for 2007?

5. How long have you been a Southern Illinois resident?
(For these purposes, Southern Illinois refers to the following counties: Franklin, Jackson, Pope, Saline, Union, and Williamson)

6. How would you describe the location of your current residence?

7. What is the highest level of education you have completed?

8. Did either of your parents (or guardians) attend college?

9. Are you aware of any specific dialect that you yourself speak or hear being spoken in your community?
(Dialect refers to variations in grammar, pronunciation, or vocabulary in a language, in this case, Standard English)

10. In the space provided, please write a sentence or two about your favorite pet. Write this just as you would speak it. Do not worry about grammatical correctness or spelling. (For example: My dawg Patches ain't got a whole lotta sense, but she's very sweet.)

11. Do you consider Coca-Cola to be:

12. Which of the following are you more likely to say?

13. Say the following words out loud: Oil, Boil, Tire, Tile.

How many syllables do you hear?

14. Do you consider the term "ain't" to be a part of your typical vocabulary?

15. Which of the following would you most likely say?

16. Have you ever taken a formal grammar course?

17. On a scale of one to five, five being very familiar, how familiar are you with sentence diagramming?

18. Is there anything wrong with the following sentence? If so, what?

Tim and Ralph don't want no more potatoes.

19. Consider the following sentence:
"Having been thrown in the air, the dog caught the stick."

This sentence is an example of:

20. Which sentence is correct?