What is the categorical meaning of a verb ?

A). process

B). substance

C). property

D). quality

E). quantity

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The category of number of the verb shows ...

A). Whether the action is associated with one or more doers

B). The number of the actions in the sentence

C). The number of listeners in the sentence

D). Whether the action was done once or more times

E). The number of objects in the sentence

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According to their meaning and function in a sentence the verbs are classified into:

A). Countable and uncountable

B). Plural and singular

C). Notional and structural

D). Dynamic and stative

E). Dynamic and durative

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The category of time-correlation shows ...

A). the tense of the verbs

B). the aspects of the verb

C). Whether the action is viewed as prior to other situations or irrespective of them

D). whether the subjects of the sentence is the agent or object of the action

E). whether the action is real or not

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Which of the following is a grammatical meaning of the category of voice?

A). the process of action irrespective of timing

B). the time of the action

C). the priority

D). the direction of the process as regards the participants of the situation

E). the relation to the reality

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What is the main problem of the category of tense?

A). the number of tenses

B). the meaning of tenses

C). the case of tenses

D). the gender of tenses

E). the absence of discontinuous morpheme

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How many grammatical categories do the finite forms of the verb have?

A). four (tense mod. number, person)

B). three (case, person, gender)

C). two (voice, tense)

D). seven (tense, voice, mood, person, number, aspect, time-correlation)

E). one (degrees of comparison)

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What aspects does the verb have in English?

A). continuous and non-continuous

B). past and present

C). active and passive

D). perfect and non-perfect

E). indicative and imperative

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Gerund has the following grammatical categories:

A). Perfect, aspect, tense

B). Tense, mood, voice

C). Perfect, person ,number

D). Voice, mood

E). Perfect, voice

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Define the type and the function of the verbal in italics:

Once a month Tommy, arriving separately, came in for a brief drink.

A). It is a gerund in the function of an adverbial modifier

B). Participle II as an attribute

C). Gerund as an attribute

D). Participle I as an attribute

E). Gerund as an object

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What does the syntax deal with?

A). Word-and word-groups

B). Word-groups, sentences and supra sentential units

C). Morphemes and words

D). Syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations

E) Affixes

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Point out the definition of the "phrase":

A). A phrase is a unit with every word having its definite form.

B). A phrase is a combination of two or more words, which are a grammatical unit but not an analytical form of some word.

C). A phrase is a grammatical unit which consists of two or more subordinate clauses.

D). A phrase is an clement of a sentence, which contains the new information; opposite to theme.

E). A phrase is an adjunct or a modifier

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Syntagmatic relations are...:

A). Immediate linear relations between units in a segmental sequence

B). Relations between elements of the system outside its surroundings

C). Relations between the syntagms of the words

D). Relations between the syntax and the morphology

E) Relations observed by the grammarians

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What is the definition of the phrase , given by F.F.Fortunatov and A.A.Shahmatov?

A). it's any syntactical group of words

B). It's any syntactical group of notional words, agreed with each other

C). It's any syntactical group of words, excluding the coordinate and predicative connection of words

D). It's a combination of two or more words, which are a grammatical unit but not

an “analytical form of some word.

E). It’s a combination of homogeneous parts of speech

$$$ 86D Relations observed by the the grammarians

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What does the following phrase denote ? It's from a man who wants you to investigate the disappearance of his wife's Pekinese dog

A). concrete thing

B). An action

C). A quality

D). A whole situation

E). A reaction

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What does the following phrase consist of? She collapsed onto the deck .

A). Notional words alone

B). Notional and functional words

C). Only functional words

D). concrete things alone

E). interjection and pronoun

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