Nazariy grammatika (Test version 0.4)

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NAZARIY GRAMMATIKA
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1. Which voice do these sentences express :
   They met; They kissed each other
   1.   reflexive
   2.   active
   3.   reciprocal
   4.   middle
2. What is gradual opposition of grammatical forms?
   1.   a contrastive pair or group in which the members are distinguished by different positive features
   2.   in a paradigm in grammatical descriptions
   3.   a contrastive group of members which are distinguished not by the presence or аbsenсе of a feature, but by the degree of it
   4.   morphological differential feature which is present in its strong parked) member and absent in its weak (unmarked) member
3. How do we call the grammatical categories that have references in the objective reality?
   1.   referential grammatical categories
   2.   transpositional categories
   3.   oppositional categories
   4.   significational categories
4. According subject-predicate relation where can we include the following sentence: John is reading ?
   1.   objective sentences
   2.   subjective sentences
   3.   neutral sentences
   4.   predicative sentences
5. What are replacive morphemes?
   1.   genuine, explicit morphemes building up words
   2.   the root phonemes of grammatical interchange, since they replace one another in the paradigmatic forms
   3.   identified as a contrastive absence of morpheme expressing a certain function
   4.   outer grammatical suffixes, since, as a rule, they are opposed to the absence of morphemes in grammatical alternation
6. What does Ilyish state according the category of gender?
   1.   nouns have no category of gender in Modern English
   2.   the category of gender should not be confused with the category of sex, because sex is an objective biological category
   3.   the existence of the category of gender in Modern English can be proved by the correlation of nouns with personal pronouns of the third person (he, she, it).
   4.   not a single word in Modern English shows any peculiarities in its morphology due to its denoting male or female being
7. What are the main categories of utterance?
   1.   theme and rheme
   2.   explicit and implicit
   3.   subject and object
   4.   subject and predicate
8. What is the function of prepositions and conjunctions?
   1.   substituting
   2.   specifying
   3.   generalizing
   4.   linking
9. What is the subject categorical meaning of the following sentence: It (the dog) ran up to me?
   1.   personal, non-human, animate
   2.   personal, human, indefinite
   3.   personal, human, definite
   4.   personal non-human, inanimate
10. What is the proper correlation of the formal approach to classify words into parts of speech and their main ideas?
    1.   concerns the syntactic function of words in the sentence and their combinability
    2.   reveals paradigmatic properties: relevant grammatical categories, the form of the words, their specific inflectional and derivational features
    3.   is based on the similarity of lexical meaning
11. What does zero article express?
    1.   proper nouns
    2.   to denote the attitude of the speaker towards the utterance
    3.   to denote kinds or varieties of some abstract concept, state, quality
    4.   to denote the definite semantical meaning
12. How is similarity and likeness of organization of linguistic units called?
    1.   isomorphism
    2.   content side
    3.   expression side
    4.   suppletivity
13. According to the nature of their heads, subordinate word-groups fall into......
    1.   simple, expanded, extended
    2.   the head and the adjunct
    3.   noun phrase, verb phrase, adjective phrase, adverbial phrase, pronoun phrase
    4.   coordinate, subordinate, predicative
14. Which voice do these sentences express :
    He dressed; He washed
    1.   active
    2.   middle
    3.   reciprocal
    4.   reflexive
15. What is the main point of the Transformational-Generative Grammar concerning syntactic units?
    1.   the constructional significance/insignificance of a part of the sentence for the whole syntactic unit. The theory is based on the obligatory or optional environment of syntactic elements
    2.   the analysis of utterances from the point of their communicative value and informative structure. It deals with the actual division of the utterance – the theme and rheme analysis
    3.   the endless variety of sentences in a language can be reduced to a finite number of kernels by means of transformations and these kernels serve the basis for generating sentences by means of syntactic processes.
    4.   the study of the way language is used in particular contexts to achieve particular goals
16. What is inner inflexion?
    1.   by a combination of at least two words, one of which is a grammatical auxiliary (word-morpheme), and the other, a word of "substantial" meaning
    2.   by the inner morphemic composition of the word
    3.   phonemic (vowel) interchange
    4.   the correlation of different roots as a means of paradigmatic differentiation
17. According what classification do all verbs fall into: transitive and intransitive, stative and dynamic, terminative and durative.
    1.   syntactic
    2.   functional
    3.   lexical-morphological
    4.   morphological
18. What is constructionally significant element in the following sentence according Constructional Syntax: I saw him there yesterday?
    1.   there
    2.   yesterday
    3.   him and there
    4.   him
19. What categories of the verb have both synthetical and analytical forms?
    1.   mood, tense, aspect
    2.   tense, aspect, voice
    3.   voice, mood, aspect
    4.   person, number, tense
20. Transformational grammarians make use of terms such as.......
    1.   transformations, generate and generative
    2.   phonemes, morphemes
    3.   subject, object, and complement, singular and plural