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WorksheetsGrammar and Sentence Structure Quiz
Total questions: 98
Worksheet time: 49mins
Define the type of a predicate. My intention is to go to the Caucasus.
compound nominal
compound verbal
simple
compound verbal aspect
compound verbal modal
Define the function of the adverb. She sings beautifully.
adverb of manner
adverb of condition
of place
of degrees of comparison
attribute.
Define the function of the adverb. I distinctly remember a hot afternoon at school
manner
place
degree
condition
result
Define the function of the adverb. He will come soon.
adv. mod of time
adv. mod
attribute
object
subject
Identify imperative sentence among the following;
Please hold my umbrella and coat for a minute
Where did you park your car
Who is there?
His hard work earned him a promotion
Anita ran wards during most of the day
Find concrete noun among the following words;
flower
honor
security
happiness
couragee
Find abstract noun among the following words;
tradition
cafeteria
dancers
lake
bunch
The noun is a word used;
to name a person, place, thing, or idea
in place of a noun or of more than one noun
to modify a noun or a pronoun
to express action or otherwise helps to make a statement
to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb
The verb is a word used;
to express action or otherwise helps to make a statement
to name a person, place, thing, or idea
to modify noun or a person
to show the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other words in the sentence
in place of a noun or a pronoun
A conjunction is a word that
joins words or groups of words
expresses emotion and has no grammatical relation to other words in the sentence
used in place of a noun or of more than one noun
expresses action
modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb
An adverb is a word that
modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb
shows action
relates a noun or a pronoun to another word
joins words or groups of words
shows emotion
A preposition is word that
noun or a pronoun to other words in the sentence
expresses action in the sentence
joins words or groups of words in the sentence
shows emotions in the sentence
modifies a verb, and adjective, or another adverb
A pronoun is a word that
used in place of a noun or of more that one noun
joins words or groups of words
shows emotion
expresses action
modifies a verb, and adjectives, or another adverb
Find proper noun among the following word
Sylvia Bryan
church
swarm
day
story
Find common noun among the following words
city
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scotland
Ohio River
Brooklyn Bridge
Find collective noun among the following words
team
designer
Indianapolis
courage
lake
Find personal pronoun among the following words
they
these
themselves
everyone
whose
Find possessive pronoun among the following words
mine
myself
somebody
whom
me
Find indefinite pronoun among the following words
someone
those
what
yourselves
our
Find demonstrative pronoun among the following words
that
they
what
themselves
them
« The house that you saw is a historical landmark. » The word «that» in this sentence is
relative pronoun
interrogative pronoun
demonstrative pronoun
reflexive pronoun
personal pronoun
Which of the following sentences contains subordinating conjunction;
Dr Watson explained his theory Sherlock
you or yours brother took the book
John and Sheila are going to marry
Both athletics and singers must train for long hours
She neither moved nor spoke
Find the sentence in which the word «practice» is a noun
the coach decided that they needed more practice
the women practice on Saturday afternoon
She had a practice session after school on Wednesday
You must practice to become a good specialist
we have practice classes every week
Which of the following sentences is declarative?
Geriatrists deals with the diseases of old ages
Open the door
Have you seen a sculpture by Augusta Savage
Where is my book
What is your name
Which of the following sentences is interrogative?
Was Jane Austin the author of Pride and Prejudice?
Do your paper in the usual way
Don't do it!
Oh!! How beautiful!
A massive work of carved stone is the Great Sphinx.
Which of the following sentences is imperative;
Shut the door
Have you seen this film
What about going to the cinema
He brought many pastries
He could identify all the element of accord
Which of the following sentences is exclamatory;
What a wonderful day we had yesterday
We often went to the shops and the restaurants in the hotel
Two of the books had been torn
By whom is the mail sent
The empire called a strike
Identify declarative sentence among the following;
The empire called the strike
Please mail these letters for me
By whom is the mail sent
Why did Earl leave the party so early
Please meet me at the station
In which sentence the word «morning« is a subject :
Morning is very nice today
The best part of the day for exercises is the morning
I get up early in the morning
You must do morning exercises every day
Will you go shopping in the morning
Which of these sentences is one member sentence?
Why not give him a telephone call
I see
This is my son Henry
Two of the letters were from my uncle
Watching TV has become his favorite pastime
The subject of the sentence:
the principle part of the sentence
the predicate
the predicative
the notional part of speech
object
Interjections:
are the words expressing emotions
are structural words that serve to connect words or phrases
include two classes of words-cardinal numerals and ordinal numerals
point the person, subject or phenomenon without naming it
are the words naming action
The minimal unit of meaning is
morpheme
word
sentence
passage
context
Which of the following morphemes is bound?
un
yes
loan
spider
they
Which of the following words consists of one morpheme:
silver
waiter
colder
running
witches
In which word the morpheme «er» is a nounbuilding suffix:
waiter
sillier
spider
lovelier
warmer
Which of the following words consists of two free morphemes:
girlfriend
foundling
fling
loveliness
retake
What part of speech is the word «under» from the sentence «The cat is under the table»?
preposition
conjunction
interjection
adverb
adjective
The verbals have
no grammatical categories
category of mood
category of tense
category of aspect
category of gender
In what sentence do we have a complex attribute:
Big, furry, shy dog appeared before me
Have you heard that incredible story
Can you see that beautiful girl
Don't go to that horrible house
What an interesting book
The principal parts of the sentence are:
subject and predicate
subject and object
predicate and predicative
attribute and adverbial modifier
subject and attribute
A two-member sentence is a sentence which
has both the subject and predicate
has a subject which consists of two words
has a predicate which consists f two words
consists of two words
has ah attribute and an adverbial modifier
Identify positive degree of comparison of an adjective:
straight
straightest
straighter
more straight
most straight
Identify comparative degree of an adjectives
heavier
heavy
heaviest
more heavy
most heavy
Identify superlative degree of an adjective
simplest
simple
simpler
more simple
most simple
A composite sentence
consists of two, more sentences
contains only the subject
contains only the predicate
has both the subject and the object
contains object and attribute.
The complex sentence:
is the composite sentence the relationship between the clauses of which is that of subordination.
is the composite sentence the relationship between the clauses of which is that of coordination.
contains the complex subject.
contains the complex object.
contains the complex predicate.
Paradigmatic relations are based on:
the similarity of function
the similarity of meaning
the similarity of forms
the similarity of words
the similarity of terms
What is the grammatical meaning?
the meaning of the whole class or a subclass
the individual meaning of the word
the meaning is not expressed formally
the meaning of a part of speech
the meaning of a subclass within the same part of speech
Who illustrated the distributional approach?
Charles Frus
Henley Sweet
Ferdinand de Saussure
Jack London
Jhon Twist
Classical or logical inflectional approach based on:
a Latin grammar
a Greek grammar
an English grammar
a French grammar
a Russian grammar
How many principles can be classified word-group?
2
3
4
5
6
The term 'grammar' goes back to
Greek
Latin
Spanish
English
Russian
The Paradigmatic relations divided into:
3
4
2
5
1
How many types Indo-European language classified?
1
2
3
5
6
The word combines in its semantic structure two meaning. Name them?
lexical-grammatical
lexical-practical
formal-functional
practical-theoretical
practical-semantic
The grammatical meaning divided into:
explicit and implicit
lexical and grammatical
formal and informal
formal and functional
synthetic and analytic
According to different principles of classification nouns fall into several subclass:
3
4
6
2
5
Verbs that realize their passive meaning only in special context: Mark the correct option?
to sleep,to sit
to see,to make
to mark, to raise
to seem
tosynthetic
Specify the correct option of non-progressive verbs?
to hate, to love, to think
to live, to make, to study
to mark, to raise, to perform
to write, to book, to sing
to buy, to bite, to gaze
The English noun has the morphological categories of…
case, gender
gender, number
case, number
gender, case, number
gender
The categorical or lexico-grammatical meaning of noun is…
property
thingness
process
state
gender
Complements are…
the obligatory partners of the verb
the auxiliary verbs
other verbs
the optional partners of the verb
the optional verbs
The transformational grammar was first suggested by American scholar…
Zelling Harris
G. Pocheptsov
John Sweet
Noam Cnomsky
Charles Frus
What is the branch of linguistics?
stylistics
lexicology
grammar
translation
phonetics
The language unit phoneme is opposed to the speech unit:
sound
utterance
text
discourse
sentence
Types of syntagmatic relations:
coordinate, subordinate, prediccetive
explicit and implicit
animateness
morphology and syntax
terminativeness/non-termihafiveness
What is the grammatical meaning?
meaning of whole class or subclass
individual lexical meaning
meaning of verbialify
general or dependent meaning
meaning of subclasses
How many classes of words illustrated Charles Fries?
15
13
17
10
11
Who identified five criteria of nouns?
W.N. Erancis
Charles Fries
John Sweet
Henry Sweet
Zelling Harris
The main features of the verbs?
syntactic, morphological,semantic
morphological, phonrtical, lexical
phonetical, syntactical, semantic
verbial, morphological, syntactic
semantic, syntactic, phonetic
How many approaches vacillating English grammarians?
4
2
5
3
6
Define the function of the noun. I got my teacher the book he needed.
Object
Subject
Predicative
Adv. mod
Attribute
Define the function of the noun. He got only four dollars a week.
Object
Subject
Predicative
Attribute
Adv. mod
Define the function of the noun I have a match in my hand.
Object
Subject
Attribute
Adv. mod
Predicative
Define the function of the noun. I have a match in my hand.
Object
Adv. mod
Subject
Predicative
Attribute
Define the function of the noun He looked at the sleeping girl.
Object
Subject
Predicative
Attribute
Adv. mod
Define the function of the noun I want to buy a necktie.
Object
Subject
Predicative
Attribute
Adv. mod
Define the function of the noun. The letter was written in haste.
Subject
Object
Predicative
Adv. mod
Attribute
Define the part of Speech. I hate the thought of being married.
Gerund
Verb
Noun
Participle
Pronoun
Define the part of Speech. They don't have much money.
Noun
Verb
Gerund
Participle
Pronoun
Define the part of Speech. He prefers the round one.
Pronoun
Noun
Adjective
Gerund
Participle
Define the function of the pronoun. He put it near my box.
Subject
Object
Predicative
Attribute
Adv. mod
Define the function of the pronoun. I'm not afraid of you.
Object
Subject
Predicative
Attribute
Adv. mod
Define the function of the noun. I dropped the coin into the well.
Subject
Adv. mod
Object
Attribute
Predicative
Define the function of the noun. The plane landed at the airport.
Adv. mod
Subject
Attribute
Predicative
Object
Define the function of the noun. Spring follow winter every year.
Subject
Object
Adv. mod
Attribute
Predicative
Define the function of the noun. Albert received an unexpected letter.
Subject
Predicative
Object
Adv. mod
Attribute
Define the function of the noun. Albert received an unexpected long distance call.
Subject
Object
Predicative
Adv. mod
Attribute
Define the function of the noun I never promised you a rose garden.
Object
Subject
Attribute
Adv. mod
Predicative
Define the function of the Adjective. I never promised you a rose garden.
Attribute
Object
Subject
Adv. mod
Predicative
Define the function of the Pronoun. I never promised you a rose garden.
Object
Subject
Adv. mod
Attribute
Predicative
Define the function of the Pronoun.. I never promised you a rose garden.
Object
Subject
Attribute
Predicative
Adv. mod
Define the function of the noun. I shall apply for a job.
Object
Subject
Attribute
Adv. mod
Predicative
Define the function of the Pronoun. I dropped the coin into the well.
Subject
Object
Attribute
Adv. mod
Predicative
Define the function of the noun. I pronounce you man & wife.
Object
Subject
Attribute
Predicative
Adv. Mod
Define the function of the noun. The audience seems sleepy.
Subject
Object
Predicative
Attribute
Adv. mod
Define the function of the Infinitive: The doctor advised her to go to the south.
Object
Predicative
Subject
Attribute
Adv.mod.
