1. A combination that has at least two constituents

2. A combination that consists only of nouns

3. Derived noun

4. Morpheme

5. Predicate

228.How many types of syntactic relations exist?

1. 3

2. 2

3. 6

4. 4

5. 5

229. What is the distributional formula of the syntactic unit?

1. Syntactic form

2. Syntactic function

3. Syntactic meaning

4. Syntactic relation

5. All answers are right

230.Who introduced the Speech Act Theory?

1. John Austin

2. G.Pocheptsov

3. Zelling Harris

4. Noam Chomsky

5. V.V.Vinogradov

231.Which syntactic theory reduces the endless variety of sentences in a language to

finite number of kernels?

1. Transformational-Generative Grammar

2. Constructional Syntax

3. Communicative Syntax

4. Pragmatic

5. Textlinguistics

232.Which syntactic theory is based on the obligatory or optional environment of syntactic elements?

1. Constructional Syntax

2. Transformational-Generative Grammar

3. Pragmatic

4. Communicative Syntax

5. Textlinguistics

233.Morphological categories and their realization are studied by:

1. Morphology

2. Syntax

3. Lexicology

4. Phraseology

5. Phonetics

234. The most essential features of the sentence as a linguistic unit are:

1. Its structural and semantic characteristics

2. Its phonemic and structural characteristics

3. Its phonemic and semantic characteristics

4. Its structural and syntactic characteristics

5. Its semantic and syntactic characteristics

235.All groups of words are arranged in:

1. Levels

2. Structures

3. Units

4. Sentences

5. Parts of speech

236. Syntactic processes may be:

1. Internal and external

2. Integrative and instrumental

3. Internal and instrumental

4. External and integrative

5. Internal

237.… involve no changes in the structure of the parts of the sentence.

1. Internal syntactic processes

2. External syntactic processes

3. Internal and external processes

4. Integrative syntactic processes

5. Instrumental syntactic processes

238.…are those that cause new relations within a syntactic unit and lead to appearance of a new part of the sentence.

1. External syntactic processes

2. Internal syntactic processes

3. Internal and external processes

4. Integrative syntactic processes

5. Instrumental syntactic processes

239.The internal syntactic processes are:

1. Expansion, compression, complication, contamination, replacement, representation, ellipsis

2. Extension, ajoinment, enclosure

3. Compression, complication, enclosure, replacement

4. Replacement, ellipsis, extension, complication, representation

5. Ellipsis, contamination, extension, representation

240.The external syntactic processes are:

1. Extension, ajoinment, enclosure

2. Compression, complication, enclosure, replacement

3. Replacement, ellipsis, extension, complication, representation

4. Ellipsis, contamination, extension, representation

5. Expansion, compression, complication, contamination, replacement, representation, ellipsis

241.The main categories of the utterance from the point of view of its informative structure are considered to be:

1. The theme and the rheme

2. Principal and Secondary parts of the sentence

3. Subject and Predicate

4. The noun-phrases

5. The verb-phrases

242.Replacement means…

1. The use of the words that have a generalized meaning

2. The use of specifying words, most often particles

3. Inserting modal words and other discourse markers

4. A part of the syntactic unit represents the whole syntactic unit

5. A syntactic unit becomes complicated

243. Representation means …

1. A part of the syntactic unit represents the whole syntactic unit

2. Inserting modal words and other discourse markers

3. The use of the words that have a generalized meaning

4. The use of specifying words, most often particles

5. Two parts of the sentence are joined together

244. What is the main nominative unit of speech?

1. noun

2. verb

3. adjective

4. adverb

5. pronouns

245. The quantitative structure of noun can be:

1. countable and uncountable

2. animate and inanimate

3. human and non-human

4. transitivity and intransitivity

5. proper and common

246. As the part of speech noun can be characterized by the following criteria …

1. semantic, morphological, syntactical

2. functional, formal, semantic

3. explicit and implicit

4. synthetic and analytic

5. paradigmatic and syntagmatic

247. According to the type of nomination the noun can be:

1. proper and common

2. semantic and syntactic

3. singular and plural

4. declinable and indeclinable

5. phonological and morphological

248. According to the form of existence the noun can be:

1. animate and inanimate

2. countable and uncountable

3. proper and common

4. singular and plural

5. semantic and syntactic

249. Proper names, abstract nouns, material nouns, collective nouns are covered by …

1. singular tantum

2. gender

3. plural tantum

4. homogenous number forms

5. mixed group

250. Names of sciences (mathematics), names of diseases, games, names of objects consisting of several parts (jeans) covered by …

1. plural tantum

2. mixed group

3. singular tantum

4. semantic

5. syntactic

251. Find the generalization the meaning of the whole class?

1. The swallow is a bird.

2. This is my cat.

3. He is at home.

4. My bag on the table.

5. I heard it yesterday.

252. Define the Possessive Genitive.

1. My father’s farm.

2. These books for students.

3. They are talking.

4. I was born in London.

5. She helps to her mother.

253. Find plural form of noun.

1. Geese

2. An ox

3. Child

4. Mouse

5. Tooth

254. Discourses are formed by …

А) sequence of utterances

B) sequence of sentences

C) verbal communication

D) chosen different words and expressions suitable and appropriate for the situation

E) all answers are correct

255. By pragmatic processes we mean

A) the processes used to bridge up the gap between the semantic representations of sentences and the interpretation of utterances in context

B) the study of the grammatical relations of linguistic units to one another and the grammatical structures of phrases and sentences that result from these grammatical relation

C) the study of the relation of linguistic units to the objects they denote

D) the study of the relation of linguistic units to people who communicate

E) all the processes

256. Who attempted to explain how, by means of shared rules or conventions, language users manage to understand one another?

A) Paul Grice

B) Henry Sweet

C) G.Potcheptsov

D) John Searle

E) J.Austin

257. Who defined necessary guidelines as Cooperative Principle?

A) Paul Grice

B) Henry Sweet

C) G.Potcheptsov

D) John Searle

E) J.Austin

258. Cooperative Principle presupposes that conversation is governed by … basic rules, Maxims of Conversation.

A) 4

B) 1

C) 5

D) 3

E) 2

259. Find extra Maxim of Conversation

A) The Maxim of Sequence

B) The Maxim of Quality

C) The Maxim of Quantity

D) The Maxim of Relevance

E) The Maxim of Manner

260. Communicative maxims make it possible to generate inferences, which are defined as

А) conversational implicatures and conventional implicatures

В) communicative implicatures and verbal implicatures

C) grammatical implicatures and morphological implicatures

D) explicit and implicit

E) locutionary act and illocutionary act

261. … is a universal phenomenon: it occurs in all natural languages.

A) Indirectness

B) The Maxim

C) Implicature

D) Utterance

E) Referent

262. Who introduces the Politeness Principle in his book “Principles of Pragmatics”?

A) Geoffrey Leech

B) Henry Sweet

C) G.Potcheptsov

D) John Searle

E) J.Austin

263. The Politeness Principle runs as follows: … the expression of impolite beliefs; … the expression of polite beliefs.

A) Minimize; Maximize

B) Maximize; Minimize

C) Underestimate; Overstate

D) Overstate; Underestimate

E) Underestimate; Maximize

264. What is the text?

1. the unit of the highest level.

2. semantic or topical unity of the spoken or written text.

3. way in which separate word meanings are combined to produce meaningful word-groups.

4. a set of basic elements, but these elements can form a great variety of combinations.

5. succession of spoken or written speech.

265.Textual basic integrative properties can be described with the help of the notions of:

1. coherence, cohesion and deixis.

2. internal and external processes

3. Premodification, Postmodification, Mixed modification

4. coordinate , subordinate relations

5. reiteration and collocation

266. Text can be defined as …

1. a sequence of sentences connected logically and semantically which convey a complete message.

2. a sequence of utterances connected logically and semantically which convey a complete message.

3. a sequence of word-groups connected logically and semantically which convey a complete message.

4. a sequence of linguistic units connected logically and semantically which convey a complete message.

5. a sequence of lexemes connected logically and semantically which convey a complete message.

267.Cohesive ties within the text are also formed by..

1. endophoric relations

2. anaphoric relations

3. cataphoric relations

4. deixis

5. pragmatic

268. Endophoric relations are of two kinds – those that look back in the text for their interpretation are called…. those that look forward in the text are called …

1. anaphoric relations, cataphoric relations,

2. cataphoric relations, anaphoric relations

3. anaphoric relations, pragmatic

4. pragmatic, cataphoric relations

5. social, textual

269. We can identify five major types of deictic markers

1. person, place, time, textual and social.

2. temporal, lexical, place, time and textual.

3. relational, time, textual, social, periodic

4. collocation, relational, place, person and number.

5. cataphoric, relational, place, person and social.

270. Note the definition of the term “Coherence”

1. semantic or topical unity of the spoken or written text.

2. is a succession of spoken or written sentences.

3. identification by pointing

4. relations that look back in the text for their interpretation

5. relations that look forward in the text for their interpretation

271. Coherence is usually achieved by means of …

1. theme and rheme progression

2. subject and predicate relation

3. Principal and Secondary parts of the sentence

4. The noun-phrases

5. The verb-phrases

272. The term ‘pragmatics’ was first introduced by:

1. Charles Morris

2. John Austin

3. B.Skinner

4. L. Sebeok

5. Ch. Osgood

273. Performatives may be:

1. explicit and implicit

2. countableness and uncountableness.

3. animate and inanimate

4. syntactical and morphological

5. proper and common

274. On any occasion the action performed by producing an utterance will consist of three related acts (a three-fold distinction):

1. locutionary, illocutionary, perlocutionary

2. producing a meaningful linguistic expression, uttering a sentence, forming an utterance without some kind of function on mind, with a non-definite communicative intention, the effect the utterance has on the hearer.

3. producing a meaningful linguistic units, forming an utterance without some kind of function on mind, with a non-definite communicative intention, the effect the utterance has on the speaker.

4. producing a meaningless linguistic units, forming sentence with some kind of function on mind, with a non-definite communicative intention, the effect the utterance has on the doer.

5. qualitative, predicative, objective

275. Which linguistic term means ‘identification by pointing’

1. Deixis

2. Collocation

3. Locutionary acts

4. Endophoric

5. Anaphoric

276. Person deixis refers to...

1. grammatical markers of communicant roles in a speech event

2. how languages show the relationship between space and the location of the participants in the text.

3. the time relative to the time of speaking.

4. do with keeping track of reference in the unfolding text.

5. code social relationships between speakers and addressee or audience.

277. The article is:

1. function word, which means it has no lexical meaning and is devoid of denotative function.

2. lexical unit, which performs the central role in realizing predication - connection between situation in the utterance and reality.

3. lexical unit which is the main nominative unit of speech

4. a word which expresses the attributes of substances

5. indicates the existence of connection between elements within the utterance or utterances within a text.

278. How many degrees of comparison has the Adjective got?

A) 2

B) 1

C) 3

D) 4

E) 5

279… is every combination of two or more words which is a grammatical unit but is not an analytical form of some word.

A) Phrase

B) Word

C) Morpheme

D) Phoneme

E) Lexis

280. Comparatively few grammatical inflections are one of the chief features characterizing an… language.

1. Analytical

2. Synthetical

3. Anabolic

4. Symbol

5. Anatomic

281. A sparing use of sound alternations to denote grammatical forms is one of the chief features characterizing an … language.

1. Analytical

2. Synthetical

3. Anabolic

4. Symbol

5. Anatomic

282. A wide use of prepositions to denote relations between objects and to connect words in the sentence is one of the chief features characterizing an … language.

1. Analytical

2. Synthetical

3. Anabolic

4. Symbol

5. Anatomic

283. Prominent use of word order to denote grammatical relations: a more or less fixed word order is one of the chief features characterizing an … language.

1. Analytical

2. Synthetical

3. Anabolic

4. Symbol

5. Anatomic

284. An inflection morpheme can acquire a lexical meaning in some special cases. These are cases of …

A) lexicalization

B) Lexus

C) Lexis

D) Plexus

E) Plurality

285. The term … is taken in a wide sense and applied to any morpheme coming after the root morpheme , whether it is derivative or inflectional.

A) Suffix

B) Prefix

C) Inflection

D) Ending

E) Suffice

286. The term … is applied to any morpheme serving to derive a grammatical form and having no lexical meaning of its own.

A) Inflection

B) Suffix

C) Prefix

D) Affix

E) Infection

287. … types of word-form derivation are those limited to changes in the body of the word, without having recourse to auxiliary words.

A) Synthetic

B) Analytical

C) Syntagmatic

D) Analysis

E) Agglutinative

289. … types of word-form derivation are those implying the use of auxiliary words.

A) Analytic

B) Synthetic

C) Syntagmatic

D) Synchronic

E) Agglutinative

290. The invariant function of all the articles is …

1. determination

2. theme markers

3. rheme markers

4. referant

5. noun markers

291. The second function the articles is…

1. theme-and rheme markers.

2. determination

3. referant

4. noun makers

5. adjective markers

292. The object denoted by the word is called the

1. referent

2. generalizer

3. determiner

4. concretizer

5. definder

293. In the second sentence the definite article is used as a

1. generalizer

2. referent

3. determiner

4. concretizer

5. definder

294. The generalizing function of articles is opposed to that of

1. concretization

2. classifying

3. quantifying

4. referencing

5. determining

295. Which one is not the indefinite article function:

1. The moderneziation function

2. The indefinitizing function

3. The classifying function

4. The introductory function

5. The quantifying function

296. The definite article may not be used in the following function:

1. The indefinitizing function

2. The moderneziation function

3. The classifying function

4. The introductory function

5. The quantifying function

297. When concrete nouns are used in generic sense, they are usually preceded by

1. definite article

2. indefinite article

3. zero article

4. none of them

5. all of them

297. The generalizing function can be performed by

1. the definite, the indefinite and the zero article

2. only indefinite article

3. only definite article

4. only zero article

5. none of them

298. By … (type of word-form derivation) we mean building a form of a word from an altogether different stem.

A) Suppletive formations

B) Analytical types

C) Synthetic types

D) Sound alternations

E) Scrambling

299. … is a type of word differing from other types in some grammatical point or points.

A) Part of speech

B) Part of a body

C) Party

D) Paradigm

E) Parallel

300. … is a type of word different from all other types in that it alone has the grammatical category of tense.

A) The Verb

B) The Noun

C) The Adjective

D) The Pronoun

E) The Adverb

301. The meaning of the Noun is …

A) thingness

B) process

C) property

D) connection

E) unknown

302. The meaning of the Verb is …

A) process

B) thingness

C) property

D) unknown

E) half known

303. The adjective expresses …

A) property

B) process

C) thingness

D) unknown

E) connection

304. … denote either number or place in a sentence.

A) Numerals

B) Nouns

C) Verbs

D) Pronouns

E) Conjunctions

305. Meaning of the … is property of an action or of a property.

A) Adverb

B) Verb

C) Noun

D) Conjunctions

E) Interjection

306. The meaning of … is obviously that of relations between things and phenomena.

A) Prepositions

B) Phrasal verbs

C) Pronoun

D) Verbs

E) Nouns

307. … express connections between things and phenomena.

A) Conjunctions

B) Phrasal verbs

C) Pronoun

D) Verbs

E) Nouns

308. … express the speaker’s evaluations of the relations between an action and reality.

A) Modal verbs

B) Conjunctions

C) Prepositions

D) Pronoun

E) Phrasal verbs

309. … express feelings. They are not names of feelings but the immediate expression of them.

A) Interjections

B) Prepositions

C) Pronoun

D) Phrasal verbs

E) Modal verbs

310. … have the category of number.

A) Nouns

B) Verbs

C) Adjectives

D) Conjunctions

E) Prepositions

311. … have the category of case.

A) Nouns

B) Verbs

C) Adjectives

D) Conjunctions

E) Prepositions

312. … form degrees of comparison.

A) Adjectives

B) Nouns

C) Conjunctions

D) Prepositions

E) Numerals

313. The meaning of the… as a part of speech can be stated as follows: they point to the things and properties without naming them.

A) Pronoun

B) Noun

C) Verb

D) Adjective

E) Conjunction

314. The meaning of the … is that of a passing state a person or thing happens to be in.

A) Stative

B) Noun

C) Pronoun

D) Verb

E) Adjective

315. The … is characterized by the morphological category of tense.

A) Verb

B) Noun

C) Pronoun

D) Adjective

E) Adverb

316. The … is characterized by the morphological category of aspect.

A) Verb

B) Noun

C) Pronoun

D) Adjective

E) Adverb

317. The … is characterized by the morphological category of mood.

A) Verb

B) Noun

C) Pronoun

D) Adjective

E) Adverb

318. The … is characterized by the morphological category of voice.

A) Verb

B) Noun

C) Pronoun

D) Adjective

E) Adverb

319. The … is characterized by the morphological category of person.

A) Verb

B) Noun

C) Pronoun

D) Adjective

E) Adverb

320. … have degrees of comparison.

A) Adverbs

B) Nouns

C) Pronouns

D) Verbs

E) Prepositions

321. By … (one of the principles of the parts of speech classification) we mean the morphological characteristics of a type of word.

A) Form

B) Meaning

C) Function

D) Formal

E) Meaningless

322. By … (one of the principles of the parts of speech classification) we mean the syntactical properties of a type of word.

A) Function

B) Meaning

C) Form

D) Formal

E) Meaningless

323. … words are those denoting things, actions and other extralinguistic phenomena.

A) Notional

B) Formal

C) National

D) Formula

E) Nationality

324. … words denote relations and connections between the notional words, and thus have no direct bearing on anything extralinguistic.

A) Formal

B) Notional

C) National

D) Formula

E) Nationality

325. The… shows that one object is meant.

A) Singular

B) Plural

C) Dual

D) Double

E) Sincere

326. The… shows that more than one object is meant.

A) Plural

B) Singular

C) Dual

D) Double

E) Sincere

327. … nouns are nouns taken to denote the group as a whole.

A) Collective

B) Colette

C) Collocate

D) collate

E) collects

328. … are taken to denote the group as consisting of a certain number of individual human beings (or animal).

A) Nouns of multitude

B) Collective nouns

C) Nouns of multiplication

D) Nouns of money

E) Collects nouns

329. How many cases have English nouns got?

A) 2

B) 1

C) 3

D) 4

E) 5

330. How many articles are there in English?

A) 2

B) 1

C) 4

D) 3

E) 5

331. How many degrees of comparison has the Adjective got?

A) 2

B) 1

C) 3

D) 4

E) 5

332. … is every combination of two or more words which is a grammatical unit but is not an analytical form of some word.

A) Phrase

B) Word

C) Morpheme

D) Phoneme

E) Lexis

333. By … we mean a method of expressing a syntactical relationship, which consist in making the subordinate word take a form similar to that of the word to which it is subordinate.

A) Agreement

B) Government

C) Agriculture

D) Governor

E) Agitator

334. By … we understand the use of a certain form of the subordinate word required by its head word, but not coinciding with the form of the head word itself.

A) Government

B) Agreement

C) Agriculture

D) Governor

E) Agitator

335. … is a part of the sentence. It denotes the things whose action or characteristic is expressed by the predicate.

A) Subject

B) Predicate

C) Object

D) Attribute

E) Adverbial modifier

336. … is a part of speech. It denotes the action or property of the thing expressed by the subject.

A) predicate

B) subject

C) object

D) attribute

E) adverbial modifier

337. The treatment of a language as a system was characteristic of the grammarians of the …

A) 17th century

B) 16th century

C) 13th century

D) 19th century

E) 20th century

338. “Grammaire générale de Port-Royal” was published in …

A) 1660

B) 1670

C) 1665

D) 1760

E) 1860

339. Who laid the foundation of a new linguistic theory acknowledging the study of a system of a given language as such?

A) Ferdinand de Saussure

B) O. Jespersen

C) Henry Sweet

D) Charles Fries

E) Leo Sherba

340. Find the simple noun

A) dog

B) childhood

C) widower

D) kingdom

E) sandstone

341. Find the derived noun

A) childhood

B) book

C) cat

D) dog

E) sandstone

342. Find the compound noun

A) sandstone

B) childhood

C) book

D) cat

E) dog

343. find the simple noun

A) snow

B) blackbird

C) kingdom

D) girl-friend

E) book-case

344. find the derived noun

A) kingdom

B) book

C) cat

D) dog

E) glass

345. find the compound noun

A) book-case

B) kingdom

C) book

D) cat

E) dog

346. find the suffix of abstract noun

A) ship

B) s

C) en

D) ful

E) able

347. find the suffix of concrete noun

A) ant

B) ness

C) ed

D) en

E) ful

348. find the suffix of abstract noun

A) ness

B) ed

C) en

D) able

E) ing

349. The functional parts of speech are:

A) the preposition, the conjunction, the particle

B) the noun, the verb, the adverb

C) the modal words

D) the pronoun, the numeral, the preposition

E) the adjective, the conjunction, the particle

350. The auxiliary verbs in English:

A) to do, to be, to have, shall, will, should, would

B) to do. To be, to have

C) to do, to be, to have, shall, will

D) to do, to be, to have, should, would

E) shall, will

351. The non –finite forms of the verb:

A) the infinitive, the gerund, participle I, participle II

B) the infinitive, the gerund

C) the infinitive, the gerund, participle I

D) the gerund, participle II

E) participle I, participle II

352. According to their morphological composition verbs can be divided into:

A) simple, derivative, compound, phrasal

B) simple, derivative

C) compound, phrasal

D) simple, compound, phrasal

E) derivative, compound, phrasal

353. Participle I of both regular and irregular verbs is composed by adding:

A) the suffix – ing to the stem of the verb

B) the suffix – en to the stem of the verb

C) the suffix – ed to the stem of the verb

D) the suffix – ly to the stem of the verb

E) the suffix – s to the stem of the verb

354. State the infinitive as subject:

A) To be good is to be in harmony with oneself

B) H’s so silly to be fussy and jealous

C) His dearest wish was to have a son

D) All I can do is to get you out of here

E) She waited for him to dance first

355. State the infinitive as predicative:

A) His dearest wish was to have a son

B) H’s nice to see you again

C) To see her again didn’t give him the usual pleasure

D) To expect too much is a dangerous thing

E) She would like him to dance with her

356. The infinitive can be used as an adverbial modifier of:

A) Purpose, subsequent events, consequence, attendant circumstances, comparison, condition, exception, time, cause, motivation

B) purpose, mason, consequence, attendant circumstances, comparison, condition, exception, time, cause, motivation

C) purpose, mason, consequence, comparison, condition, exception, time, cause, motivation

D) purpose, subsequent events, consequence, mason, comparison, condition, exception, time, cause, motivation

E) wish, mason, consequence, attendant circumstances, comparison, exception, time, cause, motivation

357. Find the passive gerund:

A) I hate being interrupted

B) I am hot used to talking in that way

C) On telling me the time, he turned away

D) Your hail needs cutting

E) He entered without having knocked at the door

358. State the gerund as subject

A) Growing roses, collecting postage stamps or old swords are hobbits

B) I prefer walking home

C) We all appreciate your helping us

D) I’m sorry that I missed seeing you!

E) I find the book worth reading

359. Modal verbs in English:

A) Can, may, must, should, ought to, shall, will, would, need, dare, to be, to have

B) Can, may, must, should, shall, will, would, need, dare, to be, to have

C) Can, may, must, do, should, ought, shall, will, would, need, dare, to be, to have

D) Must, should, ought, shall, will, would, need, dare, to be, to have

E) Can, may, must, let, should, ought, shall, will, would, need, dare, to be, to have

360. How do we call Modal verbs?

A) defective

B) strong verbs

C) interchangeable

D) alternative

E) transitive

361. Can followed by the non-perfect common aspect infinitive expresses:

A) physical and mental ability, possibility, permission, prohibition, request

B) physical and mental ability, possibility, permission

C) prohibition, request

D) physical and mental ability

E) physical and mental ability, possibility, permission, prohibition

362. “May” followed by the non-perfect common infinitive expresses:

A) permission, prohibition, request

B) permission, possibility of the fact, prohibition

C) permission, prohibition, obligation

D) permission

E) probability

363. “Must” followed by the non-perfect common infinitive may express

A) obligation, prohibition, invitations

B) obligation, necessity

C) prohibition, invitations

D) probability

E) probability, prohibition, initiations

364. According to their morphological composition nouns can be divided into:

A) simple, derives and compound

B) simple, derived and complex

C) simple, compound

D) derived, compound

E) derived, compound

365. Find English non-count nouns:

A) advice, news, progress, research, knowledge

B) advice, progress, research, knowledge

C) progress, research, knowledge, science

D) research, knowledge, science, news

E) news, knowledge, progress

366. Find English singular invariable nouns:

A) ink, money, hair, fruit, chess, cream

B) lump, money, hair, fruit, chess, cream

C) woman, hair, fruit, chess, cream

D) money, hair, fruit, chess, cream

E) money, hair, chess, cream

367. Find English plural invariable nouns:

A) sweepings, clothes, greens, contents, odds

B) clothes, greens, contents, olds, burns

C) clothes, greens, contents, games

D) mans, clothes, greens, contents, olds

E) poems, clothes, greens, contents, olds, burns

368. The genitive case is used with nouns:

A) denoting persons and animals, time and distance

B) denting cars and towns

C) denoting the names of newspapers, the services

D) denoting nations and organizations

E) denting policy and persons

369. State the noun as subject:

A) The ship got under way

B) I am very pleased with you

C) Don’t keep me waiting

D) Seeing lane, I mushed to greet her

E) I stopped talking

370. The main functions of the indefinite article are:

A) classifying, generic, numerical

B) classifying, generic, specifying

C) specifying, generic, numerical

D) generic, numerical

E) classifying, generic

371. The main functions of the definite article:

A) specifying and generic

B) specifying, generic and numerical

C) classifying, generic

D) generic, numerical

E) classifying and specifying

372. According to their morphological composition adjectives can be subdivided into:

A) simple, derived and compound

B) simple, compound

C) derived, compound, single

D) single, derived

E) simple, derived

373. There are three grades of comparison of adjectives:

A) positive, comparative and superlative

B) negative, comparative and superlative

C) comparative, superlative, simple

D) compound, positive, superlative

E) complex, comparative and superlative

374. Find compound adjectives:

A) colour – blind, blue-eyed, fair-haired

B) kind heart, picturesque

C) manlike, uttermost, lonesome

D) manlike, kind heart

E) picturesque, lonesome

375. Find adjectives which form their degrees of comparison by means of irregularly:

A) good, bad, little, many

B) much, good, bad, little

C) warm, bad, many

D) good, small, bad, many

E) bad good, many

376. What is the subject?

A) Doer of the action in the sentence.

B) Direct receiver of the action of a sentence.

C) Object identifier.

D) Subject identifier.

E) Object of a preposition.

377. How do we call a group of related words containing subject and a finite verb?

A) Clause.

B) Prepositional phrase.

C) Addition.

D) Subject.

E) Infinitive.

378. The –ing form of a verb used as a noun.

A) Gerund.

B) Infnitive.

C) Adverb.

D) Object.

E) Possessive.

379. A subordinate clause which functions as an adjective in a sentence.

A) Adjective clause.

B) Noun clause.

C) Adverb clause.

D) Principal clause.

E) Main clause.

380. A word which comes before a noun and affects the meaning of the noun.

A) Article.

B) Adverb.

C) Verb.

D) Gerund.

E) Object.

381. The tense, which expresses an event or situation that, exists now or that “usually”, “always” or “often” exists.

A) Simple present,

B) Simple past,

C) Simple future,

D) Present perfect,

E) Present continuous.

382. The tense, which expresses an event that, began and ended in the past.

A) Simple past

B) Simple present

C) Future-in-the past

D) Present perfect

E) Simple future

383. The tense, which expresses an event that, will happen at one particular time in the future.

A) Simple future

B) Simple past

C) Simple present

D) Past perfect

E) Present perfect

384. The tense giving the idea that an event is in progress during a particular time.

A) The continuous tenses

B) Simple present

C) Simple past

D) Simple future

E) The perfect tenses

385. The tense giving the idea that one event happens or happened before another time or event.

A) The perfect tenses

B) Simple present

C) Simple past

D) Simple future

E) The continuous tenses

386. Regular ________ end in “-s” or “-es” when they are plural.

A) Countable nouns

B) Uncountable nouns

C) Gerunds

D) Subjects

E) Noun clause

387. Many________ are abstract concepts.

A) Uncountable nouns

B) Countable nouns

C) Adjectives

D) Article

E) Prepositions

388. Nouns referring to natural phenomena are usually_______.

A) Uncountable

B) Countable

C) Complex

D) Steady

E) Odd

389. Gerunds are _______ nouns.

A) Uncountable

B) Countable

C) Steady

D) Odd

E) Natural

390. A subordinate clause, which functions as a subject, object, or complement in a sentence.

A) Noun clause

B) Adjective clause

C) Adverb clause

D) Clause

E) Object

391. A subordinate clause, which functions as an adverb in a sentence.

A) Adverb clause

B) Noun clause

C) Adjective clause

D) Subject

E) Object

392. Types of subordinate clauses in English:

A) Noun clauses, adjective clauses, adverb clauses

B) Noun clauses, pronoun clauses, adjective clauses

C) Noun clauses, pronoun clauses, adverb clauses

D) pronoun clauses, adverb clauses, verb clauses

E) pronoun clauses, adverb clauses

393. _______ can have a function of nouns.

A) Infinitives

B) Particles

C) Articles

D) Prepositions

E) Adjectives

394. _______can have a function of adverbs.

A) Infinitives

B) Gerunds

C) Articles

D) Prepositions

E) Adjectives

395. ________ can have a function of adjectives.

A) Infinitives

B) Gerunds

C) Articles

D) Prepositions

E) Adverbs

396. _________ can have a function of nouns.

A) Gerunds

B) Particles

C) Infinitives

D) Prepositions

E) Adverbs

397. The … is a part of a sentence. It denotes the action or property of the thing expressed by the subject.

A) Predicate

B) Object

C) Subject

D) Attribute

E) Adverbial modifier

398. Very often the predicate agrees in … with the subject.

A) Number

B) Person

C) Gender

D) Case

E) Voice

399. Predicates can be divided into simple and compound according to their …

A) structure

B) morphological characteristics

C) syntactical characteristics

D) lexical meaning

E) modesty

400. Predicates can be divided into verbal and nominal according to their …

A) Morphological characteristics

B) Structure

C) syntactical characteristics

D) lexical meaning

E) modesty

401. The … is a part of the sentence, referring to a part of the sentence expressed by a verb, a noun, a substantival pronoun, an objective, a numeral, or an adverb, and denoting a thing to which the action passes on, which is the result of the action, in reference to which the action is committed to or a property is manifested, or denoting an action as object of another action.

A) Object

B) Subject

C) Predicate

D) Attribute

E) Adverbial modifier

402. The … is a part of the sentence modifying a part of the sentence expressed by a noun, a substantival pronoun, a cardinal numeral and any substantivized word, and characterizing the thing named by these words as to its quality or property.

A) Attribute

B) Subject

C) Adverbial modifier

D) Object

E) Predicate

403. The … is a part of the sentence modifying a part of the sentence expressed by a verb, a verbal noun, an adjective or an adverb, and serving to characterize an action or a property as to its quality or intensity, or to indicate the way of action is done, the time, place, cause, purpose, or condition with which the action or the manifestation of the quality is connected.

A) Adverbial modifier

B) Subject

C) Object

D) Predicate

E) Attribute

404. The … is regarded as a special kind of attribute. It is a word or a phrase referring to a part of sentence expressed by a noun, and giving some other designation to the preposition or thing named by that noun.

A) Apposition

B) Adverbial modifier

C) Object

D) Subject

E) Predicate

405. The … is a name of designation of the person or persons(or, occasionally, thing or things) to whom the speech or writing is addressed.

A) Direct address

B) Parenthesis

C) Insertion

D) Object

E) Attribute

406. … are words and phrases which have no syntactical ties with the sentence, and express the speaker’s attitude towards he says.

A) Parenthesis

B) Direct address

C) Insertion

D) Object

E) Adverbial modifier

407. … are various additional statements inserted in the sentence.

A) Insertions

B) Parenthesis

C) Direct address

D) Object

E) Adverbial modifier

408. The main function of the noun in the sentence is that of …

A) subject

B) object

C) attribute

D) predicate

E) adverbial modifier

409. The main function of the verb in the sentence is that of …

A) predicate

B) subject

C) object

D) attribute

E) adverbial modifier

410. The main function of the adjective in the sentence is that of …

A) attribute

B) subject

C) object

D) predicate

E) adverbial modifier

411. The main function of the adverb in the sentence is that of …

A) adverbial modifier

B) attribute

C) subject

D) object

E) predicate

412. The form “readers” can be divided into … morphemes.

A) 3

B) 2

C) 1

D) 4

E) 5

413. the morpheme -read- in “readers” expresses …

A) the basis lexical meaning on the word

B) the idea of agent performing the action

C) number

D) modality

E) voice

414. the morpheme – er- in “readers” expresses …

A) the idea of agent performing the action

B) the basis lexical meaning on the word

C) number

D) modality

E) voice

415. the morpheme – s in “readers” expresses …

A) number

B) the basis lexical meaning on the word

C) the idea of agent performing the action

D) modality

E) voice

416. Heat is the energy of the movement of molecules. The underlined noun is …

A) subject

B) object

C) attribute

D) predicative

E) adverbial modifier

417. His father was a miner. The underlined noun is

A) predicative

B) subject

C) object

D) attribute

E) adverbial modifier

418. Uranium can be produced from thorium. The underlined noun is …

A) object

B) predicative

C) subject

D) predicate

E) attribute

419. Have you any laboratory experience? The underlined noun is …

A) attribute

B) subject

C) object

D) predicate

E) predicative

420. In the radio telephone sound waves are converted into radio waves. The underlined nouns are …

A) attribute

B) subject

C) object

D) predicate

E) predicative

421. He walked back slowly into the room. The underlined noun is …

A) adverbial modifier

B) attribute

C) subject

D) object

E) predicate

422. Bodies are lighter in water that they are in air. The underlined nouns are …

A) adverbial modifier

B) attribute

C) subject

D) object

E) predicate

423. Heat is a form of energy. The underlined noun is …

A) predicative

B) adverbial modifier

C) attribute

D) subject

E) object

424. The speech that expresses somebody’s original words is called … speech

A) direct

B) indirect

C) transitive

D) traditional

E) common

425. the speech that doesn’t express somebody’s original words but their meaning is called … speech.

A) indirect

B) direct

C) transitive

D) traditional

E) common

426. According to the aim of utterance the sentences are divided into … Find the unnecessary one.

A) declarative

B) interrogative

C) imperative

D) exclamatory

E) explanatory

427. According to their structure sentences can be divided into … Find the unnecessary one.

A) unextended

B) extended

C) compound

D) complex

E) negative

428. … is putting the predicate before the subject in the sentence.

A) Inversion

B) Conversion

C) Invitation

D) Immigration

E) Cognitivizm

429. … sentences express request, order or forbiddance to do something.

A) Imperative

B) Declarative

C) Exclamatory

D) Interrogative

E) Examinatory

430. … sentences are sentences which have no separate subject and predicate but one main part instead.

A) One-member

B) Infinitive

C) Elliptical

D) Homogeneous parts

E) Dependent appendix

431. The … is a one-member sentence with an infinitive as its main part.

A) Infinitive sentence

B) Elliptical sentence

C) Sentence with homogeneous parts

D) Sentence with a dependant appendix

E) Sentence with secondary predication

432. By homogeneous parts of a sentence we mean parts of the … category.

A) Same

B) Different

C) Difficult

D) Simple

E) Safety

433. Who saved his life remained unknown. The underlined part of the sentence is … clause.

A) Subject

B) Predicative

C) Object

D) Attribute

E) Adverbial

434. It is strange that we should meet her. The underlined part of the sentence is … clause.

A) Subject

B) Predicative

C) Object

D) Attribute

E) Adverbial

435. It was obvious that something important had happened. The underlined part of the sentence is … clause.

A) Subject

B) Predicative

C) Object

D) Attribute

E) Adverbial

436. It was doubtful whether the payment is strictly legal. The underlined part of the sentence is … clause.

A) Subject

B) Predicative

C) Object

D) Attribute

E) Adverbial

437. This is what we were talking about. The underlined part of the sentence is … clause.

A) Predicative

B) Subject

C) Object

D) Attribute

E) Adverbial

438. All I know is what I have seen in the press. The underlined part of the sentence is … clause.

A) Predicative

B) Subject

C) Object

D) Attribute

E) Adverbial

439. The truth was that he was a man before he was a scientist. The underlined part of the sentence is … clause.

A) Predicative

B) Subject

C) Object

D) Attribute

E) Adverbial

440. It seems that he was late for the train. The underlined part of the sentence is … clause.

A) Predicative

B) Subject

C) Object

D) Attribute

E) Adverbial

441. The 1^st English pre-normative grammar “Bref grammar of English” was written by …

1. W. Bullokar

2. R. Lowt

3. C.P. Manson

4. Bain

5. H. Sweet

442. The 1^st English pre-normative grammar “Bref grammar of English” was written by W. Bullokar in …

1. 1585

2. 1685

3. 1865

4. 1885

5. 1655

443. All parts of speech are divided into 4 classes and 15 groups by…

1. Ch. Fries

2. R. Lowt

3. C.P. Manson

4. A. Bain

5. H. Sweet

444. All parts of speech are divided into declinable and indeclinable by …

1. H. Sweet

2. O. Jespersen

3. Ch. Fries

4. R. Lowt

5. C.P. Manson

445. The History of English grammar can be divided into …periods

1. 2

2. 3

3. 4

4. 5

5. 6

446. Who is the author of the “New English grammar, Logical and Historical” (1891)?

1. H. Sweet

2. O. Jespersen

3. Ch. Fries

4. R. Lowt

5. C.P. Manson

447. … is used to denote a quality or feature of an object.

A) The adjective

B) The noun

C) The verb

D) The pronoun

E) The number

448. Adjectives have two main syntactical functions: they may be used as … .

6. attributes or predicatives

7. subject and predicate

8. subject and attribute

9. object and predicate

10. predicate and adverbial modifier of manner

449. … is generally used to denote some circumstances or characteristic features of an event, its time, place, manner.

A) The adverb

B) The noun

C) The verb

D) The pronoun

E) The number

450. … may be subdivided into the following groups: time or frequency, place or direction, manner, measure or degree, interrogative, connective adverbs

A) Adverbs

B) The noun

C) The verb

D) The pronoun

E) The number