What’s the origin and the meaning of the word grammar?

• The word “grammar” derives from Greek and means “art of letters” (gramma = letter).

• The word “grammar” derives from Greek and means “all of letters in the dictionary”

• The word “grammar” derives from French and means “art of speech”.

• The word “grammar” derives from Latin and means “such kind”.

• The word “grammar” derives from German and means “genitive case of noun”.

Linguistic unit can enter into relations of two different kinds. They are:

• A) predicative and attributive

• semantic and functional

• semantic, formal and functional

• paradigmatic and adverbial

• paradigmatic and syntagmatic

The subject of grammar, its two interpretation.

• refers to the explicit theory constructed by the linguist to describe the speaker’s linguistic competence and the study of morphology and syntax, often complemented by phonology, lexicology, semantics and pragmatics.

• doesn’t refer to the explicit theory constructed by the linguist to describe the speaker’s linguistic competence and the study of morphology and syntax, often complemented by phonology, lexicology, semantics and pragmatics

• indicates to the explicit theory constructed by the linguist to describe the speaker’s phonological competence and the study of sounds and letters

• describes the speaker’s logical competence and the study of philosophy

• All answers are correct

The most basic concept of morphology is ____ ?

• Syntax and hyphen

• Phrases and verbs

• the concept of a word

• Nouns and adjectives.

What’s the difference between Descriptive and Prescriptive Grammars?

• the descriptive grammar is a model of the mental grammar, the prescriptive grammar is vigorous, dynamic and constantly changing

• the descriptive grammar only describes your unconscious linguistic knowledge, the prescriptive grammar tells what rules you should know to speak the standard language.

• a descriptive grammar of language does not describe your unconscious linguistic knowledge it only tells you how you should speak; while a prescriptive grammar tells what rules you should know to speak the standard language.

• a descriptive grammar of language does not tell you how you should speak; it only describes your unconscious linguistic knowledge while a prescriptive grammar tells how you think to speak the written language

• a descriptive grammar of language tells you how you should speak and describes your pedagogical knowledge while a prescriptive grammar tells you without rules you can speak all languages.

The main two parts of theoretical grammar are:

• Syntax and Grammar

• Morphology and Grammar

• Morphology and Syntax

• Words and Semantic group

• Morphemes and words

One of the main parts of theoretical grammar is______________

• Noun

• Morphemes

• Morphology

• Phrases

• Grammar

The main parts of theoretical grammar are morphology and ____________

• Morphemic

• Adverb

• Verb

• Syntax

• Object

Morphology deals with ____

• a branch of grammar that studies morphemes and words, their structure and classification.

• syntax and hyphen, their structure and classification.

• numbers and details, their structure and classification

• phrases and verbs, their structure and classification.

• nouns and adjectives.

What is Syntax?

• the smallest lingual unit which is capable of performing a communication

• communicative function

• a branch of grammar that studies sentence construction

• a   group of words that together have a particular meaning

• a group of words usually containing a subject and a verb