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WorksheetsTheoretical grammar quiz
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 15mins
As part of grammatical theory what units does morphology face?
The phoneme and sentence
The morpheme and the word
The substance and the action
The affix and suffix
Find the correct form of composite words
Beautiful, outline, play
Outlook, outline, successful
Throughout, outlook, outrage
Throughout, replay, washing machine
What does the adjective have combinability with?
Nouns, link-verbs, adverbs
Preposition, nouns, adjectives
Adjectives, adverbs, verbs
Adverbs, pronoun, numeral
What does the noun possess?
Action
Property of action
Quality of action
Substantiality
Who introduced a distributional approach to the parts of speech classification?
Charles Fries
A. Shakhmatov
Y. Yakobson
Frans Bob
What criteria are used to discriminate parts of speech in modern Linguistics?
Semantic, formal, functional
Morphologic, formal, lexical
Semantic, lexical, functional
Phonetic, formal, semantic
Find the correct list of the nouns with homogenous number form.
Sheep, oxen, women
Fish, men, criterion
Sheep, deer, swine
Child, deer, hair
Transformational grammarians make use of terms such as...
Transformations, functional, generative
Transformations, generate, generative
Generate, functional, generative
General, common, generative
What is the classification of adjectives according to their structure?
Simple, affixed, derived
Simple, compound, complex
Simple, derived, complete
Simple, derived, compound
Semantically adverbs are subdivided into...
Qualitative, quantitative, circumstantial
Simple, derived, compound
Morphological, syntactic, semantic
Simple, complex, compound
Who was the first to identify statives?
L.Scherba and V.Vinogradov
R.Rask and F.de.Sossur
A.Shakhmatov and V.Vinogradov
Charles Fries
Find the derived adverbs.
Up and down, outside, beautiful
Fast, quickly, slowly
Sideways, outline, slowly
Slowly, sideways,clockwise
By verbids lexico-grammatical meaning of action is presented as...
Quantifying and qualifying action
Substance and qualifying action
Dynamic and static action
Nominal and verbal
Being a verb, what grammatical categories does infinitive have?
Aspect and mood
Number and mood
Voice and mood
Aspect and voice
Find the sentence which interjection is given.
This is quite fantastic!
Oh, what a pity!
That's good!
I know you well.
What grammatical categories does the verb have?
Tense, voice
Person, aspect
Mood, number, posteriority
All answers are correct
What functions does the pronoun have?
Indicatory and grammatical functions
Individual and substitutional functions
Indicatory and substitutional functions
Gradual and privative functions
What parts of sentence can the numeral be?
Attribute, subject
Predicative, adverbial modifier
Predicate, object
First and second options are correct
What do the statives denote?
Substantiality
Properties of action
Different states, mostly of temporary duration
Secondary property
The infinitive shows the process as...
Dynamic
Static
Progressive
Substantial
Which answer shows the correct form of compound preposition?
Throughout, as though, inside
On, beyond, beside
Throughout, inside, into
In, among, about
Who introduced syntactic semantic classification of cases?
Charles Fries
Ch. Fillmore
V.Vinogradov
A.Yakobson
Find the correct list of intransitive verbs.
Purchase, leave, run
Dance, escape, take
Move, jump, buy
Escape, jump, dance
According to the nature of predication verbs fall into...
Transitive intransitive
Finite and non finite
Simple and derivative
Regular and irregular
The verbal noun shows the process as...
Static
Dynamic
General
Regular
The infinitive is presented by varieties:
Simple and derived
Notional and seminotional
Regular and irregular
Marked and unmarked
What are three main qualitative types of oppositions?
Privative, functional, gradual
Generative, privative
Equipollent, generate, gradual
Privative, gradual, equipollent
What do qualitative adverbs denote?
Quantity of action
Substantiality
Properties of actions
Duration
How can the verb be classified as according to different principles of classification?
Morphological, lexical morphological
Syntactical and functional
First and second options are correct
All are incorrect
Find participles which used as attribute
The girl is crying
A crying girl, fallen leaves
Studying is gaining knowledge
The boy played tennis
What is the function of conjunction?
To link the noun with other words
To describe specific types of nouns
To link words
To join clauses, sentences and words
What criteria can the noun be characterized by?
Semantic, morphological, syntactical
Lexical, semantic, phonetic
Countable, uncountable
Abstract, proper, common
Identify correct types of verb formation.
Affixation, suffixation, suppletive ways
Analytic means, derivation, variation of sounds
Affixation, variation of sounds, suppletive ways, analytical means
Suppletive, derivation
How can the verbs be classified ccording to their functional significance?
Regular, irregular
Transitive, intransitive
Static, dynamic
Notional, functional, auxiliaries
What does the gerund have combinability with?
Adverbs, adjectives, nouns
Possessive pronouns, nouns in genetive case, prepositions
Verb, reflexive pronouns, adverbs
Possessive pronouns, noun, numeral
What kind of predicate is formed if the infinitive combines with the modal verbs?
Compound verbal predicate
Derived verbal modal predicate
Complex modal verbal predicate
Compound modal verbal predicate
What type of verbids is used after prepositions?
Infinitive
Participle 2
Participle 1
Gerund
The numeral is classified as...
Definite, indefinite, cardinals
Ordinal, distributive, iteratives
Multiples, collective, fractions
All options are correct.
What is the function of prepositions?
To join clauses, sentences and words
To link a noun to another noun
To describe specific feature of a noun
To make phrasal verbs
What does the noun have combinability with?
Verb, adjective, pronoun
Numeral, prepositions
Particle,verb
First and second options are correc
___is the processual qualifying form of the verb.
The infinitive
The participle
The gerund
The particle
Find co-ordinating conjunction
As if, if, as well as
Or, as well as, either...or
As though, as if, neither...nor
So that, as if, so...that
Find correct examples for interrogative pronouns
Myself, each other, none
Who, neither, both
Whoever, those, whose
Who, what, which
What grammatical categories does the gerund have?
Aspect and voice
Number and mood
Tense and voice
Number and aspect
Find the correct list of subordinating conjunctions introducing manner.
As well as, so that, therefore
Either...or, in order that, although
As if, so...that, as though
And, moreover, so that
....is a pronoun used to emphasize its antecedent.
Reflexive pronoun
Interrogative pronoun
Personal pronoun
Intensive pronoun
Find the correct examples for reflexive pronoun.
I, he, she, that
Myself, herself, themselves
Other, whose, who, him
Each other, one another
Which line shows correct examples for irregular verbs?
Swim, hold, clean
Understand, write, answer
Take, draw, see
Skate, buy, point
What approaches are there to the parts of speech problem?
Classical, functional, distributional, complex
Traditional, analytical, complex
Classical, logical, complex, analytical
Classical, complex, lexical
According to morphological structure of the stems nouns can be classified into..
Simple, derived, compound
Simple, complex, derived
Simple, derived, composite, complex
Simple, derived, compound, composite
