Тести з теоретичної граматики

1. The distinctive features of English as an analytical Language are

a) great number of grammatical inflections and suppletive grammatical forms;

b) wide use of functional words and scarcity of synthetical grammatical forms;

c) free word order.

2. Syntactic relations are based on

1. dominational and equipotent connections;

2. only one-way and two-way domination;

3. only equipotent connection.

3. The subject matter of Morphology is to study

1. syntagmatic connections of grammatical forms;

2. sentence-building rules;

3. grammatical classes of words, their grammatical categories and systems of paradigms.

4. Predicative relations build up word-groups as

a) secondary parts of the sentence;

b) both principal and secondary parts of the sentence;

c) principal parts of the sentence.

5. Paradigmatic relations connect

1. syntagmatic groupings of words;

2. marked and unmarked members of the morphological opposition;

3. textual segments.

6. In comparison with exocentric word phrases, endocentric phrases are

a) subordinate and coordinate;

b) subordinate and predicative;

c) predicative and prepositional.

7. The grammatical category is

a) a number of grammatical forms expressing both lexical and grammatical meanings;

b) a system, expressing a generalized grammatical meaning by means of paradigmatic correlation of grammatical forms, analytical or synthetical;

c) a system expressing variant grammatical meanings by means of correlated grammatical forms.

8. According to the internal structure, word combinations with head element are

a) regressive\progressive;

b) independent\dependent;

c) both.

9. By grammatical forms we understand

a) variants of a word having the same lexical meaning but differing grammatically;

b) variants of a word having the same lexical and grammatical meanings;

c) variants of a word having different lexical and grammatical meanings.

10. In Grammar the word combination theory studies

a) semantic collocations of separate words;

b) structure, grammatical peculiarities of its constituents, syntactic relations between them;

c) lexical meanings of words and their groupings.

11. Answer the question: Which criteria are used in the distributional analysis of the morphemic structure of the word?

1. Lexico-semantic specification;

2. Word-building features;

3. Degree of self-dependence and grammatical alteration.

12. Sentence is defined as

a) communicative unit with a meaning and a form;

b) immediate integral unit of speech built up of words according to a definite syntactic pattern and distinguished by a meaning and contextually relevant communicative purpose;

c) immediate integral unit of speech built up of grammatical forms structured according to their meanings and communicative purpose.

13. Notional parts of speech are the words that

1. have an incomplete nominative meaning;

2. are used as structural function words;

3. have full lexical nominative meaning.

14. Naming a situation, the predicative centre of the sentence is presented in the position of

a) subject and attribute group;

b) subject and predicate group;

c) predicate and object group.

15. Grammatical features of Noun are outlined like the following:

1. categorical meaning of substance, categorical forms of gender and person, derivational patters, substantive syntactic function;

2. categorical meaning of substance, categorical forms of number and case, derivational patters, substantive syntactic function;

3. categorical meaning of property, categorical forms of number and case, derivational patters, proper syntactic function.

16. Implicit predication is found in

a) sentences with double headed predication;

a) sentences with single headed predication;

a) sentences with both single and double headed predication.

17. Semantic domain of Subjunctive is outlined as

1. unreal condition, unreal comparison, unreal volition;

2. unreal wish, unreal supposition, unreal condition;

3. unreal event, unreal speculation, unreal desire.

18. Composite sentence as a polypredicative unit is formed

a) by two or more predicative lines;

b) by two predicative lines;

c) by one predicative line.

19. Answer the question: Apart from derivational patterns and structural dimensions, which of the grammatical features are included into morphological characteristics of Verb?

a) categorical meaning of action, opposition of finite\nonfinite verb forms, functional significance;

b) categorical meaning of process, functional significance, categorical changeable forms, opposition of finite\nonfinite verb forms;

c) categorical meaning of state, functional significance, categorical changeable forms, opposition of finite\nonfinite verb forms.

20. The type of sentences which is excluded from structural classification is

1. complete\incomplete;

2. simple\composite;

3. declarative\interrogative.

21. Morphological distinctions of verbals are

1. person, number, tense, mood, voice;

2. tense, aspect, mood, voice, person;

3. tense, aspect, voice.

22. Reflecting the semantics of the predicate, sentences fall into

a) personal human\non-human;

b) actional, statal, relational;

c) impersonal factual\perceptional.

23. The factors, which are excluded from the main characteristics of the non-finite forms, are

1. relative tense distinctions;

2. process-naming function;

3. nominal features.

24. Qualifying syntactic relations form the constituents of

1. attributive group;

2. subject and predicate group;

3. object and adverbial modifier group.

25. The general invariant meaning of the category of Tense is

a) the reference to the moment of speaking;

b) the reference to some event at present;

c) the reference to the time of objective reality.

26. Sentence is defined as

a) communicative unit with a meaning and a form;

b) immediate integral unit of speech built up of words according to a definite syntactic pattern and distinguished by a meaning and contextually relevant communicative purpose;

c) immediate integral unit of speech built up of grammatical forms structured according to their meanings and communicative purpose.

27. Taxis is defined as

a) the process measured from some definite moment located at present;

b) the process measured from some definite moment located at present and past;

c) the process measured from some definite moment located at present, past and future.

28. Answer the question: Which of the following provides for the model of immediate constituents?

1. Kernel sentences;

2. IC-derivation tree;

3. Base patterns and transforms.

29. Figure out what makes the system of English tenses controversial

1. categorical expression of verbal tense by shall\will forms;

2. absolute and relative expression of time;

3. understanding mode of the process as tine distinctions.

30. Exclude the given functions from characteristics of the adverbial modifier:

a) attending circumstances;

b) being restrictive\non-restrictive;

c) concession.

31. Non-continuous verbal forms have variant grammatical meaning of

1. being repeated or single occurrence;

2. being developed during the period of time;

3. being simultaneous with another process.

32. In a composite sentence the predicative lines are made up of

1. clauses;

2. separate sentences;

3. principal and secondary parts.

33. The grammatical category of Voice indicates

a) conditions of development of the process;

b) direction of the process as regards its subject;

c) direction of the process as regards its subject and object.

34. Exclude the right word from the list of coordinate connectors:

1. conjunctive substitutes;

2. conjunctions proper;

3. semi-functional clausal connectors.

35. Answer the question: Which of the clauses in the complex sentence comes from the functional classification?

1. Predicative clause;

2. Substantive-nominal;

3. Qualification nominal.

36. Parallel homogeneous, heterogeneous, consecutive arrangement relates to

a) subordination;

b) coordination;

c) predication.

37. Case is defined as

a) a lexical device to express relations between nounal referents in a sequence of words;

b) a syntactic construction showing connections between different nouns occupying certain positions in a sentence;

c) a morphological category manifested in the form of a noun declension showing the relations of a nounal reference to its neighbours as objects of the reality.

38. Being adversative, copulative, disjunctive, consequential points out functional property of

a) predication;

2. subordination;

3. coordination.

39. Is the division of verbs into notional, structural and modal based on

a) functional significance;

b) structural features;

c) lexical meaning.

40. The semi-complex sentence is based on

1. fusion of explicit (primary) predication and implicit (secondary) predication;

2. explicit (primary) predication;

3. implicit (secondary) predication.