Theoretical grammar quiz

As part of grammatical theory what units does morphology face?

• The phoneme and sentence

• The morpheme and the word

• The substance and the action

• The affix and suffix

Find the correct form of composite words

• Beautiful, outline, play

• Outlook, outline, successful

• Throughout, outlook, outrage

• Throughout, replay, washing machine

What does the adjective have combinability with?

• Nouns, link-verbs, adverbs

• Preposition, nouns, adjectives

• Adjectives, adverbs, verbs

• Adverbs, pronoun, numeral

What does the noun possess?

• Action

• Property of action

• Quality of action

• Substantiality

Who introduced a distributional approach to the parts of speech classification?

• Charles Fries

• A. Shakhmatov

• Y. Yakobson

• Frans Bob

What criteria are used to discriminate parts of speech in modern Linguistics?

• Semantic, formal, functional

• Morphologic, formal, lexical

• Semantic, lexical, functional

• Phonetic, formal, semantic

Find the correct list of the nouns with homogenous number form.

• Sheep, oxen, women

• Fish, men, criterion

• Sheep, deer, swine

• Child, deer, hair

Transformational grammarians make use of terms such as...

• Transformations, functional, generative

• Transformations, generate, generative

• Generate, functional, generative

• General, common, generative

What is the classification of adjectives according to their structure?

• Simple, affixed, derived

• Simple, compound, complex

• Simple, derived, complete

• Simple, derived, compound

Semantically adverbs are subdivided into...

• Qualitative, quantitative, circumstantial

• Simple, derived, compound

• Morphological, syntactic, semantic

• Simple, complex, compound