Модуль 2 Морфология. Структура слова.

Тема1 - 25 тестовых заданий

Морфемная структура слова

1. Suffix –ed in the verb ‘decided’ (as in ‘he decided to stay’) is:

A. lexical

B. grammatical

C. derivational

D. word-building

E. all the answers

2. Suffix –ed in the adjective ‘relaxed’ (as in ‘relaxed atmosphere’) is:

A. lexical

B. grammatical

C. derivational

D. word-changing

E. all the answers

3. Find the words where –s is not the allo-morph of the same morpheme – 1.speaks, 2.dreams, 3.phonetics,4 washes, 5.watches.

A. 1

B. 2

C. 3

D. 4

E. 5

4. The lexical morpheme –ment is:

A. free morpheme

B. bound morpheme

C. prefix

D. infix

E. circumfix

5. Basis for semantic criterion of morpheme classification:

A. position of a morpheme

B. structure of a morheme

C. meaning of a morpheme

D. function of a morpheme

E. combinability of a morpheme

6. Characterize the morpheme –teen:

A. lexical, bound, numeral-forming suffix

B. grammatical, bound, numeral-forming suffix

C. lexical, free, numeral-forming suffix

D. grammatical, free, numeral-forming suffix

E. lexical, free, numeral-forming prefix

7. …. are noun-forming suffixes:

A. –er, -ette,-ful.

B. –ment, -ent, -able. C. –ist, - hood, - dom.

D. – ism, -teen, -th

E. – ly, -ence, -ward.

8. …expresses the concrete, “material” part of the meaning of the word and constitutes its central part:

A. suffix

B. prefix

C. root

D. infix

E. affix

9. Adjective forming suffix …

A. -ful

B. –ment. C. –er

D. -th

E. – ly

10. Suffix –ed in the following example – “watched” is:

A. lexical

B. grammatical

C. derivational

D. word-changing

E. all the answers

11. Find the grammatical suffix:

A. listened

B. speech

C. teacher

D. beautiful

E. talkative

12. Characterize the morpheme –ism:

A. lexical, bound, substantive -forming suffix

B. grammatical, bound substantive -forming suffix

C. lexical, free, substantive -forming suffix

D. grammatical, free, substantive -forming suffix

E. lexical, free, substantive - forming prefix

13. Subdivide the following word into morphemes ‘irreproachable’:

A. ir-reproach-ab-le

B. ir-reproach - able

C. ir-re-proach-able

D. ir-re – proach – ab-le

E. irreproach-able

14. Find the word according to the following description:

Bound negative prefix of native origin + root + lexico-grammatical suffix added to a verbal:

A. unbuttoned

B. decolonize

C. misunderstood

D. overdid

E. inclining

15. Find the word according to the following description:

Bound Romanic prefix + root + grammatical suffix of plurality:

A postmortem

B. ex-husbands

C. unfinished

D. infix

E. inclines

16. Abstract structure of the word

1. Root + lexical suffix+ grammatical suffix

2. Prefix +root+ lexical suffix+ grammatical suffix

3. Prefix +root+ suffix

4. Root+affix

5. Prefix +root+ grammatical suffix+ lexical suffix

17. The allo-emic identification of lingual elements is achieved by means of the so-called

1. Allophone

2. Segmental component

3. Morphemic structure of the word

4. Abstract structure of the word

5. distributional analysis

18. Words consisting of 2 or more root morphemes and an inflexion…

A. compound words

B. composite words

C. simple words

D. complex words

E. derivative words

19. Prefix+ root+ lexical suffix+ grammatical suffix=….

A. sound

B. stem

C. word

D. sentence

E. collocation

20. Find a composite word:

A. table

B. at once

C. childhood

D. sleep

E. baby carriage

21. Find a simple word:

A. birthday

B. nightmare

C. fifty six

D. rabbit

E. rebuild

22. Find overt and covert morphemes:

A. pen-pens

B. look, smaller

C. words, word-groups, sentences

D. harmful, depended

E. be…ing, be…en

23. Find a word which is not the stem

1. You are behaving in a childish way

2. I’ve decided to retry

3. We have just moved to a new house

4. After five hours of work the workers were really famished

5. The factories produce harmful gases

24. Lexico-grammatical word morphemes

1. Il-, im-

2. -ish, -hood

3. -less, -full

4. -ing, -ed

5. Away, down

25. The morphemes which are opposed to each other

1. Overt-replacive

2. Additive-empty

3. Free-bound

4. Additive-free

5. Covert-continuous