Test on theoretical grammar 1

What is the aim of theoretical grammar?

• description of grammar rules that are necessary to understand and formulate sentences

• the grouping requirements of the parts of speech

• definition of stylistic devices

• explanation for grammar rules

The term "grammar" goes back to . . .

• a Greek word

• an Arab word

• Latin word

• a Gothic word

What is a language family?

• group of languages related by descent from a common ancestor languages

• a group of languages

• analytic languages

• synthetic languages

What do you understand by the grammatical structure of a language?

• all the means that are used to express the grammatical meaning of a language

• the means of word building

• the lexical- grammatical meaning

• all the grammatical inflections

What is a language?

• it is a collective body of knowledge, it is a set of basic elements, but these elements can form a great variety of combinations

• it is the result of a definite act of speaking

• it is a set of rules

• it is a group of words

What operation is called morphemic analysis?

• the morphemic analysis is an operation by which the analyst isolates minimum meaningful elements in the utterances of a language, and decides which occurrences of such elements shall be regarded as occurrences of the same element

• it is a study of the grammatical relations of linguistic units to one another and the grammatical structure of phrases and sentences that result from these grammatical relations

• it is a study of the relation of linguistic units to the objects they denote

• it is a study of the relation of linguistic units to people who communicate

How are the zero morphemes identified?

• by their meaning

• by their form

• by co-relation between form and meaning

• by their function

What languages are called analytical?

• that are poor in grammatical inflections

• that are poor in grammatical categories

• that are poor in grammatical morphemes

• that are poor in means of word-building

What morphemes are there in the word «mis-statements»?

• one grammatical three lexical

• one lexical three grammatical

• two lexical two grammatical

• four lexical

What languages are called synthetic?

• that are rich in grammar inflections

• that are rich in grammatical categories

   

• that are rich in stylistic devices

• that are rich in means of word-building