Part 1. General information from all lectures
I. Choose as many variants as it is necessary.
1. What systems does the English languаge unite?
a) paradigmatic
b) grammatical
c) practical
d) categorial
2. Which levels can we distinguish in a language?
level of phoneme
temporal level
level of monophtheme
objective level
level of texteme
speaking system
phonological
intonational
theoretical
level of lexeme
level of phraseme
level of sentences
level of proposeme
level of morpheme
3. What parts of a word can be included in an absolute model of an English word?
a) root f) inflection
b) article g) affricate
c) digraph h) affix
d) suffix i) apposition
e) diphthong j) prefix
4. What are the three criteria of classification for grammatical classes of words.
a) morphemic positioning e) the way of formation
b) certain inflections f) form
c) meaning g) number of morphemes
d) the way the word is pronounced h) function
5. What are the two grammatical categories of the nouns accepted by all linguists?
a) tense d) abstractness
b) aspect e) number
c) case f) gender
6. Choose all the "weak" members of the categorial oppositions.
a) nominative case
b) pluralia tantum
c) superlative degree form of adjectives
d) past tense form of the verb
e) base form of adjectives
7. What can the categorial meaning of the Genetive case express?
a) objective genetive
b) subjunctive genetive
c) genetive of time
d) possesive genetive
e) genetive of destination
8. Three main devisions of objective time are represented in the English verbal system by the following tenses:
a) past d) future
b) simple e) present
c) continuous f) perfect