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Theoretical grammar quiz

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

As part of grammatical theory what units does morphology face?

a)

The phoneme and sentence

b)

The morpheme and the word

c)

The substance and the action

d)

The affix and suffix

2.

Find the correct form of composite words

a)

Beautiful, outline, play

b)

Outlook, outline, successful

c)

Throughout, outlook, outrage

d)

Throughout, replay, washing machine

3.

What does the adjective have combinability with?

a)

Nouns, link-verbs, adverbs

b)

Preposition, nouns, adjectives

c)

Adjectives, adverbs, verbs

d)

Adverbs, pronoun, numeral

4.

What does the noun possess?

a)

Action

b)

Property of action

c)

Quality of action

d)

Substantiality

5.

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

a)

Charles Fries

b)

A. Shakhmatov

c)

Y. Yakobson

d)

Frans Bob

6.

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

a)

Semantic, formal, functional

b)

Morphologic, formal, lexical

c)

Semantic, lexical, functional

d)

Phonetic, formal, semantic

7.

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

a)

Sheep, oxen, women

b)

Fish, men, criterion

c)

Sheep, deer, swine

d)

Child, deer, hair

8.

Transformational grammarians make use of terms such as...

a)

Transformations, functional, generative

b)

Transformations, generate, generative

c)

Generate, functional, generative

d)

General, common, generative

9.

What is the classification of adjectives according to their structure?

a)

Simple, affixed, derived

b)

Simple, compound, complex

c)

Simple, derived, complete

d)

Simple, derived, compound

10.

Semantically adverbs are subdivided into...

a)

Qualitative, quantitative, circumstantial

b)

Simple, derived, compound

c)

Morphological, syntactic, semantic

d)

Simple, complex, compound

11.

Who was the first to identify statives?

a)

L.Scherba and V.Vinogradov

b)

R.Rask and F.de.Sossur

c)

A.Shakhmatov and V.Vinogradov

d)

Charles Fries

12.

Find the derived adverbs.

a)

Up and down, outside, beautiful

b)

Fast, quickly, slowly

c)

Sideways, outline, slowly

d)

Slowly, sideways,clockwise

13.

By verbids lexico-grammatical meaning of action is presented as...

a)

Quantifying and qualifying action

b)

Substance and qualifying action

c)

Dynamic and static action

d)

Nominal and verbal

14.

Being a verb, what grammatical categories does infinitive have?

a)

Aspect and mood

b)

Number and mood

c)

Voice and mood

d)

Aspect and voice

15.

Find the sentence which interjection is given.

a)

This is quite fantastic!

b)

Oh, what a pity!

c)

That's good!

d)

I know you well.

16.

What grammatical categories does the verb have?

a)

Tense, voice

b)

Person, aspect

c)

Mood, number, posteriority

d)

All answers are correct

17.

What functions does the pronoun have?

a)

Indicatory and grammatical functions

b)

Individual and substitutional functions

c)

Indicatory and substitutional functions

d)

Gradual and privative functions

18.

What parts of sentence can the numeral be?

a)

Attribute, subject

b)

Predicative, adverbial modifier

c)

Predicate, object

d)

First and second options are correct

19.

What do the statives denote?

a)

Substantiality

b)

Properties of action

c)

Different states, mostly of temporary duration

d)

Secondary property

20.

The infinitive shows the process as...

a)

Dynamic

b)

Static

c)

Progressive

d)

Substantial

21.

Which answer shows the correct form of compound preposition?

a)

Throughout, as though, inside

b)

On, beyond, beside

c)

Throughout, inside, into

d)

In, among, about

22.

Who introduced syntactic semantic classification of cases?

a)

Charles Fries

b)

Ch. Fillmore

c)

V.Vinogradov

d)

A.Yakobson

23.

Find the correct list of intransitive verbs.

a)

Purchase, leave, run

b)

Dance, escape, take

c)

Move, jump, buy

d)

Escape, jump, dance

24.

According to the nature of predication verbs fall into...

a)

Transitive intransitive

b)

Finite and non finite

c)

Simple and derivative

d)

Regular and irregular

25.

The verbal noun shows the process as...

a)

Static

b)

Dynamic

c)

General

d)

Regular

26.

The infinitive is presented by varieties:

a)

Simple and derived

b)

Notional and seminotional

c)

Regular and irregular

d)

Marked and unmarked

27.

What are three main qualitative types of oppositions?

a)

Privative, functional, gradual

b)

Generative, privative

c)

Equipollent, generate, gradual

d)

Privative, gradual, equipollent

28.

What do qualitative adverbs denote?

a)

Quantity of action

b)

Substantiality

c)

Properties of actions

d)

Duration

29.

How can the verb be classified as according to different principles of classification?

a)

Morphological, lexical morphological

b)

Syntactical and functional

c)

First and second options are correct

d)

All are incorrect

30.

Find participles which used as attribute

a)

The girl is crying

b)

A crying girl, fallen leaves

c)

Studying is gaining knowledge

d)

The boy played tennis

31.

What is the function of conjunction?

a)

To link the noun with other words

b)

To describe specific types of nouns

c)

To link words

d)

To join clauses, sentences and words

32.

What criteria can the noun be characterized by?

a)

Semantic, morphological, syntactical

b)

Lexical, semantic, phonetic

c)

Countable, uncountable

d)

Abstract, proper, common

33.

Identify correct types of verb formation.

a)

Affixation, suffixation, suppletive ways

b)

Analytic means, derivation, variation of sounds

c)

Affixation, variation of sounds, suppletive ways, analytical means

d)

Suppletive, derivation

34.

How can the verbs be classified ccording to their functional significance?

a)

Regular, irregular

b)

Transitive, intransitive

c)

Static, dynamic

d)

Notional, functional, auxiliaries

35.

What does the gerund have combinability with?

a)

Adverbs, adjectives, nouns

b)

Possessive pronouns, nouns in genetive case, prepositions

c)

Verb, reflexive pronouns, adverbs

d)

Possessive pronouns, noun, numeral

36.

What kind of predicate is formed if the infinitive combines with the modal verbs?

a)

Compound verbal predicate

b)

Derived verbal modal predicate

c)

Complex modal verbal predicate

d)

Compound modal verbal predicate

37.

What type of verbids is used after prepositions?

a)

Infinitive

b)

Participle 2

c)

Participle 1

d)

Gerund

38.

The numeral is classified as...

a)

Definite, indefinite, cardinals

b)

Ordinal, distributive, iteratives

c)

Multiples, collective, fractions

d)

All options are correct.

39.

What is the function of prepositions?

a)

To join clauses, sentences and words

b)

To link a noun to another noun

c)

To describe specific feature of a noun

d)

To make phrasal verbs

40.

What does the noun have combinability with?

a)

Verb, adjective, pronoun

b)

Numeral, prepositions

c)

Particle,verb

d)

First and second options are correc

41.

___is the processual qualifying form of the verb.

a)

The infinitive

b)

The participle

c)

The gerund

d)

The particle

42.

Find co-ordinating conjunction

a)

As if, if, as well as

b)

Or, as well as, either...or

c)

As though, as if, neither...nor

d)

So that, as if, so...that

43.

Find correct examples for interrogative pronouns

a)

Myself, each other, none

b)

Who, neither, both

c)

Whoever, those, whose

d)

Who, what, which

44.

What grammatical categories does the gerund have?

a)

Aspect and voice

b)

Number and mood

c)

Tense and voice

d)

Number and aspect

45.

Find the correct list of subordinating conjunctions introducing manner.

a)

As well as, so that, therefore

b)

Either...or, in order that, although

c)

As if, so...that, as though

d)

And, moreover, so that

46.

....is a pronoun used to emphasize its antecedent.

a)

Reflexive pronoun

b)

Interrogative pronoun

c)

Personal pronoun

d)

Intensive pronoun

47.

Find the correct examples for reflexive pronoun.

a)

I, he, she, that

b)

Myself, herself, themselves

c)

Other, whose, who, him

d)

Each other, one another

48.

Which line shows correct examples for irregular verbs?

a)

Swim, hold, clean

b)

Understand, write, answer

c)

Take, draw, see

d)

Skate, buy, point

49.

What approaches are there to the parts of speech problem?

a)

Classical, functional, distributional, complex

b)

Traditional, analytical, complex

c)

Classical, logical, complex, analytical

d)

Classical, complex, lexical

50.

According to morphological structure of the stems nouns can be classified into..

a)

Simple, derived, compound

b)

Simple, complex, derived

c)

Simple, derived, composite, complex

d)

Simple, derived, compound, composite