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1) LEKSIKOLOGIYA
2) NAZARIY FONETIKA
3) NAZARIY GRAMMATIKA
4) TIL TARIXI
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1. There is no difference between the written forms of …
   1.   England and France
   2.   Birmingham and the border of Scotland
   3.   Scottish and British English.
   4.   Scotland and Russia.
2. What do particles express?
   1.   to denote the definite semantical meaning
   2.   proper nouns
   3.   to denote the attitude of the speaker towards the utterance
   4.   to denote kinds or varieties of some abstract concept, state, quality
3. What are classifications of Verb phrases according to the nature of their complements?
   1.   nominal, adverbial and mixed
   2.   simple, expanded, extended
   3.   coordinate, subordinate, predicative
   4.   the head and the adjunct
4. It has more of the noun than the any of verbids as it became part of the verb system much later......
   1.   gerund
   2.   infinitive
   3.   participle II
   4.   participle I
5. What is the approach of H.Sweet and O.Jespersen to the case system in English?
   1.   the theory of prepositional cases, which treats prepositional constructions as analytic cases
   2.   the theory of limited cases, which recognizes a two-case system in English
   3.   the theory of ‘null’ case, which argues that English has completely lost the category of case
   4.   the theory of positional cases, which identifies the syntactic position, or function, with case
6. What period did the Great Vowel Shift occur?
   1.   After Norman Conquest, in 1066.
   2.   Early Modern English, between the 14th and the 18th c.
   3.   In the Old English period, in the 9th c.
   4.   Transitional period between the Old and Middle English periods
7. In what parts Russian intonation was divided and what are they?
   1.   3parts; 1. falling 2. normal 3. rising
   2.   2parts; 1. falls 2. rising
   3.   2parts; 1. normal 2. rising
   4.   2parts; 1. falling 2. rising
8. How many types of assimilation are there in English according to the degree of completeness?
   1.   One
   2.   Three
   3.   Four
   4.   Two
9. Who is the one of the representative of the Leningrad phonological school?
   1.   L.V.Shcherba
   2.   A.A. Reformatsky
   3.   D.B.Fry
   4.   N.S. Trubetzkoy
10. What part of speech in OE do the following words belong: ic, wit, uncer, þū, ēower, mē?
    1.   verb
    2.   adjective
    3.   pronoun
    4.   noun
11. 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 non-human, inanimate
    4.   personal, human, definite
12. What is a biological science and is concerned with physical and physiological characteristics of speech sounds .
    1.   Physiology
    2.   Sound
    3.   Phonology
    4.   Phonetics
13. Phonetic transcription – represents …. .
    1.   a system of sounds
    2.   a system of syllables.
    3.   a system of letters.
    4.   a system of words.
14. What period of the English language history is the following definition about?
    It lasts from the 12th century to the 15th; the period is believed to have ended in 1475, the year of introduction of printing.
    1.   the Modern English period
    2.   the Middle English period
    3.   the Early Middle English period
    4.   the Old English period
15. What do composite sentences denote?
    1.   based on coordination: the clauses are equal in rank, “equipotent”
    2.   a complicated act of thought and reflects two or more situational events as making a unity.
    3.   a syntactic non-communicative unit of an intermediary status between the sentence and the word-group
    4.   connected on the basis of subordination, with one of the clauses dominating the other(s)
16. Mark the line, which best indicates ME dialects.
    1.   Scottish, Northern, East Midland, West Midland
    2.   Northumbrian, Mercian, West Saxon, Kentish
    3.   Kentish, South Western, East Saxon, West Saxon
    4.   Southern, Midland, Northern
17. How do we call the relation between two grammatical forms differing in meaning and external signs?
    1.   means of realization
    2.   neutralization
    3.   opposition
    4.   transposition
18. Which of the following diphthongs was not introduced in the ME period?
    1.   εə
    2.   ou
    3.   oi
    4.   au
19. What is the strong spot of traditional grammar?
    1.   introducing nearly all the basic concepts and terminology of grammar
    2.   accuracy and innovativeness are to be considered as two elements that can interpret the success of this type of grammar over the other types
    3.   provides a system that describes a language as it is spoken synchronously
20. Structuralism studies can be described as follows:
    1.   is the objective study of a language structure, without reference to meaning and other languages which relies heavily on formal methods of analysis
    2.   is characterized by patterning after Latin and by the use of logic and subjective opinion in classifying words and in establishing grammatical categories
    3.   studies possible sentences, i.e. the speaker’s-hearer’s knowledge of a language (competence); it aims at a system of formal mathematically precise rules that generates grammatical sentences of the language and assigns to each sentence a structural description
    4.   focuses on actual usage without assessing its correctness and analyses the English of the best contemporary authors
    5.   focuses on the communicative, as opposed to cognitive, aspect of language and views grammar as a means to realize the three major language metafunctions
21. How many phonemes does Russian have?
    1.   40
    2.   42
    3.   41
    4.   45
22. With which academician’s name is closely connected the theory of Leningrad Phonological School?
    1.   N.K.Yakovlev
    2.   V.I.Letkin
    3.   P.S.Kuznetsov
    4.   Lev Vladimirovich Scherba
23. Suffixes are subdivided into…
    1.   free, bound, semi-bound
    2.   Affix and infix
    3.   inflectional and derivational
    4.   Prefix and affix
24. To what modification of noun phrase can we include the following example:
    two smart hard-working students?
    1.   premodification
    2.   modification
    3.   mixed modification
    4.   postmodification
25. Choose examples to circumstantial adverbs?
    1.   fast, loudly, slowly
    2.   near, far, late, soon
    3.   almost, enough, quite
    4.   hardly, scarcely, nearly
26. How is traditional grammar considered in terms of formal and functional approaches to grammar?
    1.   prescriptive
    2.   descriptive
    3.   mental
27. Where did derive from the word " phonetic " ?
    1.   from German word
    2.   from Latin word
    3.   from Russian
    4.   from Greek word
28. What is spelling?
    1.   Pronouncing the word by letters
    2.   Oral rule of some phenomenon
    3.   The smallest meaningful unite
    4.   Reduction of some sounds
29. What can be examples to non-contrastive distribution?
    1.   learned, learnt
    2.   oxen, children
    3.   works, books
    4.   returned, returning
30. What kind of principle methods are of investigation?
    1.   The linguistic, direct observation, experimental
    2.   Direct observation, the linguistic, and experimental
    3.   Direct observation, definition, and the linguistic
    4.   Definitions, observation, linguistic
31. What grammatical categories can we include into referential grammatical categories?
    1.   mood and tense
    2.   mood and degree
    3.   degree and number
    4.   tense and number
32. What are types of implicit meaning?
    1.   expressive and nominative
    2.   synthetic and analytic
    3.   general and dependent
    4.   implicit and explicit
33. What grammatical categories has OE verb “finde”?
    1.   Mood, tense, number, person and two debatable categories: Aspect and Voice
    2.   Tense, number, person
    3.   Mood, tense, number
    4.   Tense only
34. What is used in experimental methods of investigation?
    1.   It analyses by ear, by sig & It analyses in observing actual fact of language
    2.   It is based up on the use of special apparatuses or instruments
    3.   It analyses in observing actual fact of language
    4.   It analyses by ear, by sight
35. Define the types of phonemes in English.
    1.   monophtongs, diphthongs, triphtongs, diphtongoids
    2.   triphtongs, diphtongoids
    3.   monophtongs, triphtongs
    4.   monophtongs, diphthongs
36. What can be examples to complementary distribution?
    1.   works, books
    2.   oxen, children
    3.   learned, learnt
    4.   returned, returning
37. How do we call the grammatical categories that correlate only with conceptual matters?
    1.   significational categories
    2.   referential grammatical categories
    3.   transpositional categories
    4.   oppositional categories
38. What is closed type of syllable?
    1.   A syllable which ends to a vowel letter
    2.   A syllable which ends to “e”
    3.   A syllable which ends to "a”
    4.   A syllable which ends to a consonant
39. What are classifications of word-group according to the structure?
    1.   simple, expanded, extended
    2.   noun phrase, verb phrase, adjective phrase, adverbial phrase, pronoun phrase
    3.   coordinate, subordinate, predicative
    4.   the head and the adjunct
40. What is syntactic form?
    1.   a unit on the basis of which it is included to a larger unit
    2.   combination of at least two constituents
    3.   separate word meanings are combined to produce meaningful word-groups and sentences
    4.   distributional formula of the unit (pattern)