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Worksheetsангл теория 2
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 30mins
The variant of American English closest to British English was traditionally spoken in …
Boston
New Orleans
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Chicago
This word is pronounced the same way in British and American English.
know
bird
god
last
car
The youngest variant of English is …
Australian
Scottish
Canadian
American
New Zealander
The variant of English characterized by a very strong sound [r] is …
Scottish
Australian
Canadian
American
Welsh
Native speakers of English who are believed to add the word eh to the end of almost every phrase are …
Canadians
Australians
Americans
Irish
Welsh
The biggest city of this English-speaking country is populated mostly by non-native speakers of English.
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Ireland
Welsh
The poet who wrote almost all his works in one of the local dialects of English was …
Robert Burns
Henry Longfellow
Robert Burns
Lord Byron
Arthur Conan Doyle
“I’m after doing something” is a grammatical construction typical of … English
Irish
Australian
Welsh
New Zelandic
Canadian
In one of the aboriginal languages the word kangaroo meant …
I don’t understand
I don’t know
I don’t hear
I don’t go
I’m not here
The English-speaking countries which speak British English are: Great Britain, Ireland, …, New Zealand
Australia
Wales
South Africa
India
None
Softening of [l] was typical of the inhabitants of …
Wales
Ireland
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
This navigator brought English to the Southern Hemisphere.
James Cook
Francis Drake
Walter Raleigh
Fernando Magellan
Geoffrey Chaucer
American English was first proclaimed to be an independent language by …
Noah Webster
William Caxton
Geoffrey Chaucer
George Washington
Walter Raleigh
The classical translation of the Bible into the English language is called …
King James’ Bible
King Henry’s Bible
King George’s Bible
Queen Elizabeth’s Bible
King Edward’s Bible
The treatment of a language as a system was characteristic of the grammarians of the …
17th century
16th century
13th century
19th century
20th century
“Grammaire générale de Port-Royal” was published in …
1660
1670
1665
1760
1860
Who laid the foundation of a new linguistic theory acknowledging the study of a system of a given language as such?
Ferdinand de Saussure
William Ryan
John Stainbek
Alfred Mansfield
Mark Twain
The English language is considered to be …
Analytical
Synthetical
Anabolic
Symbol
Anatomic
Comparatively few grammatical inflections are one of the chief features characterizing an … language.
Analytical
Synthetical
Anabolic
Symbol
Anatomic
A sparing use of sound alternations to denote grammatical forms is one of the chief features characterizing an … language.
Analytical
Synthetical
Anabolic
Symbol
Anatomic
A wide use of prepositions to denote relations between objects and to connect words in the sentence is one of the chief features characterizing an … language.
Analytical
Synthetical
Anabolic
Symbol
Anatomic
Prominent use of word order to denote grammatical relations: a more or less fixed word order is one of the chief features characterizing an … language.
Analytical
Synthetical
Anabolic
Symbol
Anatomic
… is the part of grammar, which treats of the forms of words.
Morphology
Metonymy
Syntax
Sentence
Subject
… is the part of grammar, which treats of forms of phrases and sentences.
Syntax
Morphology
Metonymy
Sentence
Subject
… is the smallest meaningful unit into which a word form may be divided.
Morpheme
Theorem
Theory
Moreover
Sentence
The form “writers” can be divided into … morphemes.
3
2
1
4
5
The morpheme writ- in “writers” expresses …
the basic lexical meaning of the word
the idea of agent performing the action
number
modality
voice
The morpheme -er in “writers” expresses …
the idea of agent performing the action
the basic lexical meaning of the word
number
modality
voice
The morpheme -s in “writers” expresses …
number
the basic lexical meaning of the word
the idea of agent performing the action
modality
voice
Two or more morphemes may sound the same but be basically different, that is they may be …
homonyms
antonyms
synonyms
allophones
telephones
What morpheme denotes the comparative degree of adjectives and adverbs?
-er
-est
-ed
-s
-ing
The absence of a morpheme indicating a certain meaning is … morpheme.
Zero
Zed
Zodiac
Negative
Negotiate
… morphemes serve to build words.
Derivation
Inflection
Infected
Driving
Informational
… morphemes have no lexical meaning or function.
Inflection
Derivation
Infected
Driving
Informational
An inflection morpheme can acquire a lexical meaning in some special cases. These are cases of …
lexicalization
Lexus
Lexis
Plexus
Plurality
The term … is taken in a wide sense and applied to any morpheme coming after the root morpheme, whether it is derivative or inflectional.
Suffix
Prefix
Inflection
Ending
Suffice
The term … is applied to any morpheme serving to derive a grammatical form and having no lexical meaning of its own.
Inflection
Suffix
Suffice
Surface
Infection
… types of word-form derivation are those limited to changes in the body of the word, without having recourse to auxiliary words.
Synthetic
Analytical
Syntagmatic
Analysis
Synchronic
… types of word-form derivation are those implying the use of auxiliary words.
Analytic
Synthetic
Syntagmatic
Synchronic
Analysis
The ending … is used to form the plural of almost all nouns.
-s (-es)
-ed
-ing
-est
-er
The ending … is used to form the possessive case of nouns.
-’s
-s
-ed
-ing
-est
The ending … is used to form the comparative degree of adjectives and adverbs.
-er
-est
-ed
-ing
-’s
The ending … is used to form the superlative degree of adjectives and adverbs.
-est
-s
-es
-’s
-ed
The ending … is used for the third person singular in Present Simple.
-s (-es)
-’s
-est
-ed
-ness
The ending … is used for the past tense of certain verbs.
-ed
-s
-es
-ing
-est
The ending … is used for the second participle of certain verbs.
-ed
-s
-’s
-est
-ing
This variant of English has three main subvariants: Eastern, Southern and General.
American
Welsh
Australian
Canadian
New Zealander
The ending … is used for the first participle and also for the gerund.
-ed
-s
-’s
-est
-ing
By … alternations (a type of word-form derivation) we mean a way of expressing grammatical categories which consist in changing a sound inside the root.
Sound
Prefix
Morpheme
Suffix
Syntax
… types of word-form derivation consist in using a word (devoid of any lexical meaning of its own) to express some grammatical category of another word.
Analytical
Synthetic
Syntagmatic
Synchronic
Analysis
Find the sentence in which the verb “have” has its lexical meaning.
He has three children.
He has invited me to the party.
He has been waiting for me for three hours.
He had come to the time I left.
He had been working there since 1995.
Find the sentence in which the verb “do” has its lexical meaning.
I do my home work every day.
I do not make my home work.
I make my hairdo twice a month.
Do I dominate you?
Do I dominate you?
By … (type of word-form derivation) we mean building a form of a word from an altogether different stem.
Suppletive formations
Analytical types
Synthetic types
Scrambling
Sound alternations
… is a type of word differing from other types in some grammatical point or points.
Part of speech
Part of a body
Party
Paradigm
Paralell
… is a type of word different from all other types in that it alone has the grammatical category of tense.
The Verb
The Noun
The Adjective
The Pronoun
The Adverb
Find the principles of the parts of speech classifications
Meaning, form, function
Measure, furniture, fiction
Moisturizer, flexion, functional
Meaningless, formless, functionless
Miniature, furniture, fiction
The meaning of the Noun is …
thingness
process
property
connection
unknown
The meaning of the Verb is …
thingness
process
property
connection
unknown
The adjective expresses …
thingness
process
property
connection
unknown
: … denote either number or place in a sentence.
Numerals
Nouns
Verbs
Pronouns
Conjunctions
