Decide whether the following statements are true or false. 1) A dog is called a “dog” because the sound and the three letters that make up the word automatically suggest the animal in question. 2) A word is a smallest meaningful unit that has a sound unity and a grammatical function. 3) The written form of a language is the written record of the oral form, therefore the written form agrees with the oral form. 4) The speech of Old English was represented very much more faithfully in writing than it is today. 5) The early scribes created some of the differences between sounds and forms. 6) Archaic words are different from historical words. 7) Vocabulary is a term that can only be used to refer to the total number of words in a language. 8) As the chief function of function words is to express the relation between notions, the relation between words as well as between sentences, they are known as form words. 9) Native words of English are words brought to Britain because of the Norman Conquest, thus known as Anglo-Saxon words. 10)What is true of the basic word stock is also true of native words.