Grammatical Categories Quiz

What is a grammatical category?

• A group of content words with the same meaning

• A set of syntactic features expressing meanings from the same conceptual domain

• A type of sentence structure

• A type of punctuation rule

Which of the following is NOT a nominal grammatical category?

• Number

• Case

• Mood

• Gender

In synthetic languages like Latin or Greek, how are grammatical categories primarily expressed?

• By function words

• By inflectional endings

• By word order

• By intonation

Which of the following is an example of inner inflection in English?

• I will go

• He has gone

• Foot → Feet

• She is going

What are the two main types of grammatical morphemes?

• Free roots and bound affixes

• Verbs and nouns

• Subjects and predicates

• Prefixes and suffixes

Which of the following is an example of an analytical grammatical form?

• Ran

• Men

• Have gone

• Drove

Which grammatical category is typically expressed through word order in modern English?

• Tense

• Aspect

• Case

• Mood

Which of the following is NOT a traditional analytical morphological form?

• Continuous (is/was going)

• Suppletive (go → went)

• Perfect (have/had gone)

• Passive voice (is/was built)

Which of the following is an example of a grammatical opposition?

• Do - Did

• Go - Walk

• House - Home

• Run - Quickly

Which auxiliary verbs are used to form the future tense in English?

• Do/Does

• Have/Had

• Shall/Will

• Is/Was