a) Structural grammar;
b) Transformational-generative grammar;
c) Systemic functional grammar;
d) Generative semantics.
The Prague school mostly developed approach in linguistics.
a) transformational;
b) stratificational;
c) structural;
d) functional;
Charles Fries introduced .
a) parts of speech and function words
b) four major classes of words and fifteen form-classes
c) declinable and indeclinable parts of speech
d) notional and functional parts of speech
Suppletivity is a .
a) grammatical phenomenon realized in a variety of equivalent grammatical forms for one word;
b) type of building analytical wordforms;
c) synthetic means of form-building;
d) productive means of form-building;
e) replacive morpheme.
In members of parts of speech the grammatical meaning dominates over the lexical one.
Within the oppositional theory the absolute singular and the absolute plural which are unusual uses of grammatical meanings of number are cases of .
Theoretical Grammar Test 2
Noun AND Adjective
1. Noun is the only notional part of speech which can be combined with:
a) adverbs;
b) prepositions;
c) postpositional particles.
Which of the syntactic functions is not fulfilled by the noun in English?
a) subject;
b) predicate;
c) attribute;
d) object.
3. Describe the noun cat according to the following characteristics:
a) proper; common;
b) animate; inanimate;
c) human; non-human;
d) countable; uncountable.
4. The category of gender in English is:
a) formal;
b) meaningful;
5. For the bulk of English nouns the category of gender is:
a) constant feature category;
b) variable feature category.
6. Define the gender characteristics of the following nouns - teacher, smoke, landlord, hostess.
a) feminine - .
b) neuter gender - ..
c) common gender -
d) masculine -
Transpositional reduction of the category of gender, i.e. the use of the neuter gender nouns with feminine or masculine pronouns (vessel she), is known as a special stylistic device of .
8. Define the number category characteristics of the following nouns - news, car, shorts, salt, man, cattle.
a. Singularia Tantum nouns - ..
b. Pluralia Tantum nouns -
c. regular countable nouns -
9. The most widely accepted theory of the category of case in English is:
a) the theory of positional cases;
b) the theory of prepositional cases;
c) the theory of possessive postpositive;
d) the theory of limited case.
10. Transform the following word combinations, if possible, into word combinations with the genitive: (e.g.: operation of my friend à my friends operation):
the problem of unemployment, the article written by Tom, coats for men, a distance of one mile, the leg of a table
Define the semantic types of the genitive in the following word -combinations: three hours walk, my father's coat, a new womens shop, Ms. Floms contribution.
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a) denoting possession - .
b) denoting qualification - ..
Articles and other (lexical) determiners express the category of //.
13. The combination of an article with a noun is:
a) a word-combination;
b) an analytical form of the noun;
c) a combination of a specific intermediary status between the morphological form of the noun and the word-combination.
Which of the following statements is true?
a) the situational rules of the articles use comply with their generalized semantics;
b) the situational rules of the articles use do not comply with their generalized semantics;
c) some situational rules of the articles use do not comply with their generalized semantics.
15. The basic semantic function of the A. qualitative / B. for relative adjectives is:
a) specificative function;
b) evaluative function.
16. To what groups does the adjective golden belong in the following context: He is the golden boy of the show-biz?
a) 1)qualitative; 2) relative;
b) 1)evaluative; 2) specificative.
