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англ теория 3

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Meaning of the … is property of an action or of a property.

a)

Adverb

b)

Verb

c)

Noun

d)

Conjunctions

e)

Interjection

2.

The meaning of … is obviously that of relations between things and phenomena.

a)

Prepositions

b)

Phrasal verbs

c)

Pronoun

d)

Verbs

e)

Nouns

3.

… express connections between things and phenomena.

a)

Conjunctions

b)

Phrasal verbs

c)

Pronoun

d)

Verbs

e)

Nouns

4.

… express the speaker’s evaluations of the relations between an action and reality.

a)

Modal verbs

b)

Conjunctions

c)

Prepositions

d)

Pronoun

e)

Phrasal verbs

5.

… express feelings. They are not names of feelings but the immediate expression of them.

a)

Interjections

b)

Prepositions

c)

Pronoun

d)

Phrasal verbs

e)

Modal verbs

6.

… have the category of number.

a)

Nouns

b)

Verbs

c)

Adjectives

d)

Conjunctions

e)

Prepositions

7.

… have the category of case.

a)

Nouns

b)

Verbs

c)

Adjectives

d)

Conjunctions

e)

Prepositions

8.

… form degrees of comparison.

a)

Adjectives

b)

Nouns

c)

Conjunctions

d)

Prepositions

e)

Numerals

9.

The meaning of the… as a part of speech: they point to the things and properties without naming them.

a)

Pronoun

b)

Noun

c)

Verb

d)

Adjective

e)

Conjunction

10.

The meaning of the … is that of a passing state a person or thing happens to be in.

a)

Stative

b)

Noun

c)

Pronoun

d)

Verb

e)

Adjective

11.

The … is characterized by the morphological category of tense.

a)

Verb

b)

Noun

c)

Pronoun

d)

Adjective

e)

Adverb

12.

The … is characterized by the morphological category of aspect.

a)

Verb

b)

Noun

c)

Pronoun

d)

Adjective

e)

Adverb

13.

The … is characterized by the morphological category of mood.

a)

Verb

b)

Noun

c)

Pronoun

d)

Adjective

e)

Adverb

14.

The … is characterized by the morphological category of voice.

a)

Verb

b)

Noun

c)

Pronoun

d)

Adjective

e)

Adverb

15.

The … is characterized by the morphological category of person.

a)

Verb

b)

Noun

c)

Pronoun

d)

Adjective

e)

Adverb

16.

… have degrees of comparison.

a)

Adverbs

b)

Nouns

c)

Pronouns

d)

Verbs

e)

Prepositions

17.

By … (one of the  principles of the parts of speech classification) we mean the morphological characteristics of a type of word.

a)

Form

b)

Meaning

c)

Function

d)

Formal

e)

Meaningless

18.

By … (one of the principles of the parts of speech classification) we mean the syntactical properties of a type of word.

a)

Function

b)

Meaning

c)

Form

d)

Formal

e)

Meaningless

19.

… words denote things, actions and other extralinguistic phenomena.

a)

Notional

b)

Formal

c)

National

d)

Formula

e)

Nationality

20.

140: … words denote relations and connections between the notional words, and thus have no direct bearing on anything extralinguistic.

a)

Formal

b)

Notional

c)

National

d)

Formula

e)

Nationality

21.

The… shows that one object is meant.

a)

Singular

b)

Plural

c)

Dual

d)

Double

e)

Sincere

22.

The… shows that more than one object is meant.

a)

Plural

b)

Singular

c)

Dual

d)

Double

e)

Sincere

23.

The nouns which have only a plural and no singular are usually termed …

a)

pluralia tantum

b)

singularia tantum

c)

plur tant

d)

sing tant

e)

pluralia singularia

24.

The nouns which have only a singular and no plural are termed …

a)

singularia tantum

b)

pluralis tantum

c)

plur tant

d)

sing tant

e)

pluralia singularia

25.

… nouns are nouns taken to denote the group as a whole.

a)

Collective

b)

Colette

c)

Collocate

d)

Collate

e)

Collects

26.

… are taken to denote the group as consisting of a certain number of individual human beings (or animal).

a)

Nouns of multitude

b)

Collective nouns

c)

Nouns of multiplication

d)

Nouns of money

e)

Collects nouns

27.

How many cases have English nouns got?

a)

2

b)

1

c)

3

d)

4

e)

5

28.

How many articles are there in English?

a)

2

b)

1

c)

4

d)

3

e)

5

29.

How many degrees of comparison has the Adjective got?

a)

2

b)

1

c)

3

d)

4

e)

5

30.

… is every combination of two or more words which is a grammatical unit but is not an analytical form of some word.

a)

Phrase

b)

Word

c)

Morpheme

d)

Phoneme

e)

Lexis

31.

Phraseology studies

a)

free word-combinations and phraseological units

b)

graphical abbreviations

c)

synonyms and antonyms

d)

lexical homonyms

e)

synonyms

32.

Shortening is

a)

a significant subtraction of a word

b)

a common element of words

c)

a derived word

d)

the smallest meaningful unit

e)

blending

33.

Which of the given words stand for the American variant of the word flat

a)

apartment

b)

mansion

c)

but

d)

room

e)

cabin

34.

What is the meaning of the underlined parts of words monolingual, monosyllable, monologue

a)

one

b)

many

c)

all

d)

every

e)

each

35.

Which of the following words are international

a)

coffee, mango, sputnik, radio

b)

farm, video, friend, man

c)

bungalow, blitz, masterpiece, money

d)

radio, wonder-child, country, pen

e)

escalator, cat, park, television

36.

Which of the following words is the British variant of the American fall

a)

autumn

b)

spring

c)

winter

d)

summer

e)

season

37.

The word TV is a case of

a)

abbreviation

b)

clipping

c)

blending

d)

back-formation

e)

sound interchange

38.

: Has been in the following sentence “She had to be satisfied with the role of a has been” is the result of

a)

conversion

b)

word-composition

c)

word derivation

d)

polysemy

e)

affixation

39.

Motivation is

a)

the connection between the structural pattern of the word and its meaning

b)

connection with sound-form

c)

connection with referent

d)

connection with graphical form

e)

connection between meaning and referent

40.

What are antonyms

a)

words different in form and opposite in meaning

b)

different in form but same meaning

c)

same form, different meaning

d)

different structure, same sound

e)

same sound, different graphics

41.

Which of the following words are homonyms proper

a)

bank (n) – bank (n)

b)

sea – see

c)

wind – wind

d)

tear – tear

e)

knight – night

42.

A list of words in which the entry words are arranged in alphabetical order starting with their final letters are

a)

reverse dictionaries

b)

pronouncing dictionaries

c)

usage dictionaries

d)

frequency dictionaries

e)

slang dictionaries

43.

Which of the following lines contains only form words

a)

from, oh!, am

b)

dog-like, through, to help

c)

lonesome, handful, are

d)

terror, a computer, out of

e)

went, come on, and

44.

Which of the following homonyms are partial

a)

match (n) – match (v)

b)

found – found

c)

bank – bank

d)

ball – ball

e)

jam – jam

45.

Conversives are

a)

antonyms

b)

synonyms

c)

homophones

d)

hybrids

e)

doublets

46.

Complete the idiom “to be like as…” using one of the following words

a)

peas

b)

bears

c)

twins

d)

nuts

e)

cucumbers

47.

Now or never is

a)

phraseological unit

b)

saying

c)

proverb

d)

hyperbole

e)

jargon

48.

Which of the following suffixes are of Greek origin

a)

-ist, -ism, -ite

b)

-dom, -hood, -ly

c)

-able, -ible, -ant, -ous

d)

-age, -ful, -ence

e)

-anti, -dom, -ful

49.

The difference between the British and American English is noticeable in the field of

a)

in all fields of the language system

b)

phonetics

c)

grammar

d)

vocabulary

e)

intonation

50.

Pot cheers belongs to

a)

New York City dialect

b)

Eastern New England

c)

Inland Northern

d)

Standard American

e)

Standard English

51.

Semantically morphemes are classified as

a)

root and affixational

b)

free

c)

semi-free

d)

bound

e)

semi-bound

52.

Lexicography deals with

a)

compiling dictionariesthe theory and practice of compiling dictionaries

b)

word-making

c)

loan-word classification

d)

variants of English

e)

etymology

53.

The type of word-building used in the following words ping-pong, riff-raff, chit-chat is

a)

compounding

b)

shortening

c)

conversion

d)

blending

e)

back-formation

54.

“Skin-deep” and “true-blue” are…

a)

Compound words

b)

Compound derivatives

c)

Root words

d)

Derived words

e)

All answers are correct

55.

“Just” and “unjust” are…

a)

Derivational antonyms

b)

Absolute antonyms

c)

Relative antonyms

d)

Never used as antonyms

e)

Partially assimilated antonyms

56.

The British variant of the word “конфета” is…

a)

a sweet

b)

a candy

c)

a cake

d)

a chocolate

e)

all answers are correct

57.

In the phrase “I see thee in my dreams” thee is …

a)

an archaism

b)

a barbarism

c)

a neologism

d)

a verb

e)

a noun

58.

WC is …

a)

Euphemism

b)

Synonym

c)

Antonym

d)

All answers are correct

e)

Homonym

59.

External meaning

a)

morphological structure

b)

Inner structure

c)

Synonym

d)

Idiom

e)

semantic structure

60.

The stem of root or morpheme words contains

a)

one free morpheme

b)

not less than two morphemes of which at least one is bound

c)

not less than two free morphemes

d)

not less than two free morphemes and one bound morpheme

e)

a group of words