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Theory and history of English

Grammar

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The language(speech)levels are:

phonetic/phonological; morphological; lexicological, syntax (minor,major)  +

phonic/phonologic; morphic; lexical, syntactical (minor,major)

phonetics/phonology; morphology; lexicology, sentence (minor,major)

phonemic/phonological; morphemic; lexemic, syntaxal (minor,major)

 

 

The _______level deals with language and speech units which are the smallest and meaningless

phonological    +

morphological

lexicological

syntax-minor

 

 

The smallest meaningless unit of speech is called____

Phoneme

Phone     +

Morph

Morpheme

 

 

The smallest meaningful unit of language is called ______

 

Phoneme

Phone

Morph

Morpheme  +

 

 

A variant of a phoneme is_____

Allophone    +

Allomorph

Allolexe

Allounit

 

 

The morphs that have different forms, but identical meanings are

Allomorphs   +

Allophones

Allolexes

Allounits

 

 

 

_____is a language unit of the lexicological level

Lexeme   +

Lex

Word

Word combination

 

 

 

What units of the language (speech) have a nominative function?

Lexeme and lex     +

Phoneme and phone

Morpheme and morph

Word combination and sentence

 

 

Sentences: “I explain the rule” and “The rule is explained by me” are__

Allo-sentences     +

Grammatical doublets

Allo-forms

Grammatical similarities

 

 

The highest level of language (speech) is

Lexicological

Morphological

Syntax-minor

Syntax-major        +

 

The grammatical category is a more or less _____that lies in the basis of_____

wide grammatical conception;  grammatical correlation  +

narrow grammatical paradigm; grammatical conception

common grammatical feature; grammatical opposition

unique grammatical notion; grammatical forms

 

Any material means of expressing a grammatical meaning is a ___

grammatical form    +

grammatical paradigm

grammatical category

grammatical feature

 

“Sing, sang, sung” is the example of___

self-gradation   +

sound-interchange

self-organization

sound-imitation

 

A grammatical meaning cannot be detected and identified without__

a grammatical form    +

a grammatical opposition

a grammatical rule

a grammatical paradigm

 

 

Choose a line with the analytical forms

was broken, won’t come, will get   +

have been asked, is asked, asked

bringing up, more common, didn’t know

better than, is being built, writes back

 

The analytical form must include at least one___

formal verb       +

notional verb

linking verb

irregular verb

 

In lexis correlation makes separate ____

couples of antonyms   +

pairs of synonyms

negative prefixes

archaic and new words

 

 

Grammar is part of language that organizes___ and constitutes the ­­­___of language

lexis; structure    +

rules; level

categories; paradigm

parts of speech; morphology

 

 

A certain language can have only one _____grammar

objective     +

subjective

complex

unified

 

 

Syntax is concerned with _____

phases and sentences    +

words and word combinations

allosentences and allomorphs

parts of sentences and parts of speech

 

______ belong to the communicative level of language

Morphology    

Syntax  +

Grammatical paradigm

Grammatical category

 

 

What languages express grammatical meanings by auxiliary words?

Analytic      +

Synthetic

Kindred

Non-kindred

 

 

 

___included adjectives among the "verbs"

Plato   

Aristotle    +

D.Thrax

O.Jespenser

 

 

 

 

____ recognized number (singular, dual, plural)

Plato and Aristotle

Stoics grammarians  

Alexandrian grammarians   +

Henry Sweet

 

 

The first scientific English grammars was written by

Henry Sweet     +

Otto Jespenser

Emiliya Morokhovskay

Dionisius Thrax

 

 

Ottow Jespenser recognized:

Noun, adjective, pronoun, verb    +

Verb, adverb, numeral, participle

Adjective, conjunction, pronoun, verb

Pronoun, noun, numeral, adjective

 

 

Articles, prepositions, conjunctions, particles_____ according to E.Morokhovskaya

lexical parts of speech       

functional parts of speech   +

notional parts of speech

primary parts of speech

 

 

Singularia Tantum Nouns include

parts of the world, materials, collective nouns, abstract notions  +

parts of the world, remnants, collective nouns, abstract notions

parts of the world, materials, summations nouns, abstract notions

parts of the world, materials, collective nouns, some games

 

What is true about English gender

Means to show are purely lexical or derivational   +

It disappeared by the end of the Old English period

It contains masculine, feminine and neutral gender

all lifeless things in English are of neuter gender

 

The main means of making the noun definite in English is

to use the definite or indefinite article or any other determiner  +

to use the noun in context

to use personal pronouns and numerals

to use demonstrative pronouns and articles “a/an”

 

Numerals in English are

Cardinal, ordinal, fractional   =

Cardinal, ordinal, collective

Indefinite cardinal, fractional

Cardinal, decimal, fractional

 

In the sentence “He was first” the numeral is a part of__

Compound nominal predicate  +

Compound attribute

Compound predicative 

Simple numeral

 

The grammatical form of the English verb finds its expression in

synthetic and analytical forms   +

only synthetic forms

only analytical forms

self-gradation and suppletive forms

 

 

Verbs are classified on two principles:

morphological and semantical-syntactic   +

morphemic and semantical-syntactic

analytical and synthetical

grammatical and lexicological

 

The categories of person and number of verbs are realized ___

Synthetically   +

Analytically

Synthetically and analytically

Very seldom

 

The finite verb has ___ morpho­logical categories

6. +      7      8      4

 

The category of number marks

demonstrative pronouns, pronoun “one, other,  yourself”    +

interrogative pronouns, pronoun “somebody, other”

personal pronouns, pronoun “myself, yourself”

possessive pronouns, pronouns “each other, one another”

 

 

Pronouns “mine, hers, its, ours, yours, theirs”are__

possessive conjoint

possessive absolute    +

relative-possessive

indefinite-possessive

 

Structural type of pronouns “І myself” is

Complex

Compound

Composite   +

Connective

 

Pronouns “each other, one another”  are___

Reciprocal  +

Reflexive

Relative

Relative-indefinite

 

What adjectives have no grad­ing?

Blind, lilac, bay    +

Black, smart, bitter

Red, cruel, hungry

Blue, kind, evil

 

Adjectives “boy­ish, capable, despotic” are___

Base

Derived    +

Compound

Composite

 

 

Four basic syntactic units are

a phrase, a clause, a sentence, a text  +

a phrase, a paragraph, a sentence, a text

a phrase, a clause, a predicative group, a text

a phrase, a clause, a sentence, a context

 

Adj+N1 + V + N2 is__

Syntactic form   +

Syntactic meaning

Syntactic position

Syntactic relations

 

Syntactic unit is always a combination of at least __ constituents.

2+

3

4

5

 

Coordination is a syntagmatic relation of ___

independence between the constituents   +

dependence between the constituents  

interdependence between the constituents

collaboration between constituents

 

Primary predication is observed between

the subject and the predicate of the sentence     +

nominal elements in the sentence and non-finite forms of the verb

the verb and direct object

notional and functional parts of the sentence

 

 

Secondary predication is observed between

nominal elements in the sentence and non-finite forms of the verb  =

the subject and the predicate of the sentence    

the verb and direct object

notional and functional parts of the sentence

 

Predicative phrases will include___

gerundial, infinitive, participial constructions  +

finite forms of the verbs

active finite forms of the verbs

passive forms and progressive forms

 

“Have played” is

analytical form of the verb  +

a phrase

an absolute tense form

a secondary predication form

 

“To fall in love “ is

syntactically free combination of words

idiomatically bound collocation +

prepositional phrase

predicative phrase

 

“A pleasant look” is

Endocentric phrase   +

Exocentric phrase

A predicative phrase

A prepositional phrase

 

“Oxford and Cambridge” is

Endocentric phrase 

Exocentric phrase  =

A predicative phrase

A prepositional phrase

 

“For me to answer” is

Subordinate phrase

Coordinate phrase

Predicative phrase   =

Prepositional phrase

 

“To live or to die” is

Subordinate phrase

Coordinate phrase =

Predicative phrase 

Prepositional phrase

 

“Electric car production” is

asyndetic connection    +

syndetic connection

equal connection

limited connection

 

“To like to read and translate English poems” is

Verbal phrase   +

Substanvital phrase

Objective phrase

Adjectival phrase

 

“Two from ten” is

Numerical phrase   +

Prepositional phrase

Objective phrase

Adjectival phrase

 

 

“Far from that” is

Adverbial phrase  +

Prepositional phrase

Objective phrase

Adjectival phrase

 

“soon asleep” is

Statival phrase   +

Adverbial phrase 

Adjectival phrase

Substanvital phrase

 

 

Types of sentence definition are

classical logical, formal, structural   +

common, functional, stereotypical

complex, fundamental, legal

common sense, relevant, figurative

 

Communicative Types of Sentences are

Statements, interrogative, imperative,  exclamatory   +

Statements, negative, imperative,  exclamatory

Statements, interrogative, impersonal,  exclamatory

Statements, interrogative, imperative,  vocative

 

What is NOT TRUE about imperative sentences

reference to the second person

lack of subject

the auxiliary do in negative or emphatic sentences

exclamation mark at the end  of every sentence +

 

What sentence involves the coordination of two or more main clauses?

compound sentence  +

simple sentence

complex sentence

composite sentence

 

What sentence  consists of a principal clause and one or more subordinate clauses?

compound sentence 

simple sentence

complex sentence   +

composite sentence

 

“Answer!” is

elliptical sentence

one-member sentence  +

quasi sentence

composite sentence

 

“Well?” is

elliptical sentence

one-member sentence

quasi sentence =

composite sentence

 

“Не can adopt a pet or he can help at an animal shelter” is

compound sentence  +

simple sentence

complex sentence  

two-member sentence

 

“What he needed was help” is

complex sentences with a subject clause  +

complex sentences with a predicative clause 

complex sentences with an object clause 

complex sentences with a adverbial clause

 

“I knew that he loved her” 

complex sentences with an attributive clause

complex sentences with a predicative clause 

complex sentences with an object clause   +

complex sentences with a adverbial clause

 

“She looked at the picture where she noticed a stain” is

complex sentences with an attributive clause  +

complex sentences with a subject clause 

complex sentences with an object clause  

complex sentences with a adverbial clause

 

“As she was angry, he didn't interrupt her” is

complex sentences with an attributive clause 

complex sentences with a subject clause 

complex sentences with an object clause  

complex sentences with a adverbial clause +