Theoretical Grammar

What is the primary function of language?

• Expressing emotions

• Transmitting information

• Writing texts

• Creating songs

Who introduced the distinction between language and speech?

• Noam Chomsky

• Ferdinand de Saussure

• R. L. Trask

• Philip Lieberman

What is the lowest structural level of language?

• Lexical

• Syntactical

• Phonological

• Morphological

Which function of language involves maintaining social relations?

• Communicative

• Phatic

• Emotive

• Poetic

What is the primary medium of language?

• Writing

• Sign language

• Speech

• Body language

What are the two main structural types of languages?

• Synthetic and Analytical

• Formal and Functional

• Semantic and Phonetic

• Modern and Ancient

Which grammatical relation is based on similarity?

• Syntagmatic

• Paradigmatic

• Logical

• Structural

Which of the following is a synthetic language?

• English

• Russian

• Chinese

• Japanese

What is an example of a functional paradigmatic relation?

• Man – men

• The, this, one, same

• Read – reading

• Big – bigger – biggest

What is an example of secondary predication?

• I saw him working.

• She is a doctor.

• He will go tomorrow.

• The dog barked.