* description of grammar rules that are necessary to understand and formulate sentences

What is the aim of theoretical grammar?	* description of grammar rules that are necessary to understand and formulate sentences	the grouping requirements of the parts of speech	definition of stylistic devices	explanation for grammar rules
The term "grammar" goes back to	* a Greek word	an Arab word	Latin word	a Gothic word
What is a language family?	* group of languages related by descent from a common ancestor languages	a group of languages	analytic languages	synthetic languages
What do you understand by the grammatical structure of a language?	* all the means that are used to express the grammatical meaning of a language	the means of word building	the lexical- grammatical meaning	all the grammatical inflections
What is a language?	* it is a collective body of knowledge, it is a set of basic elements, but these elements can form a great variety of combinations	it is the result of a definite act of speaking	it is a set of rules	it is a group of words
What operation is called morphemic analysis?	* the morphemic analysis is an operation by which the analyst isolates minimum meaningful elements in the utterances of a language, and decides which occurrences of such elements shall be regarded as occurrences of the same element.	it is a study of the grammatical relations of linguistic units to one another and the grammatical structure of phrases and sentences that result from these grammatical relations	it is a study of the relation of linguistic units to the objects they denote	it is a study of the relation of linguistic units to people who communicate
How are the zero morphemes identified?	* by their meaning	by their form	by co-relation between form and meaning	by their function
What languages are called analytical?	that are poor in grammatical inflections	that are poor in grammatical categories	that are poor in grammatical morphemes	that are poor in means of word-building
What morphemes are there in the word «mis-statements«?	one grammatical three lexical	one lexical three grammatical	two lexical two grammatical	four lexical
What languages are called synthetic?	that are rich in grammar inflections	that are rich in grammatical categories	that are rich in stylistic devices	that are rich in means of word-building
What does phonetics study?	* speech units	language and speech units	phonemes	language units
What level or levels do stress and intonation refer to?	* both phonetical and grammatical	syntax – minor	Morphological	phonetical
What does phonology study?	* language units	language and speech units	speech units	word-building
What morphemes are there in the word «spokesman«?	* one lexical unbound, one lexical bound, one empty	one lexical three grammatical	only grammatical	four lexical
What language levels are called basic?	* those that have their own units	those that do not have their own units	those that have lost their units	those that make use units of other levels
What do you understand by emic level?	* language	phonetics	semantics	speech
What is allomorph?	a variant of morpheme	a variant of lexeme	variant of phoneme	a variant of letter
What does syntax study?	the communicative units	the phraseological units	language units	word structure
What does morphology study?	* the smallest meaningful units	the smallest meaningless units	the phraseological units	the stylistic devices
What is a morpheme?	* the smallest meaningful units	the smallest meaningless unit	a metaphor	the stylistic devices
What do you understand by ethic level?	* speech	phonetics	semantics	language
The grammatical category of aspect is a	* two member opposition	three member opposition	four member opposition	one member opposition
What is the distinction between language and speech?	* language is abstract, speech is concrete	language is individual while speech is common, general for bearers	language tends to change while speech is stable, less changeable	language is an open system, its units are limited while speech tends to be openness and endless
What language levels are called non-basic?	* those that do not have their own units	those that have their own units	those that have lost their units	those that make use units of other levels
By the meaning of words they understand	the general lexical-grammatical meaning	the structural meaning	the connotational meaning	the stylistic function
The grammatical categories are characteristic to	* notional words	auxiliary words	non-sense words	functional words
What grammatical category has «relative» and «absolute» meaning?	* posteriority	tense	mood	voice
What types of grammatical categories do you know?	* synthetical, analytical and mixed	lexical-semantic	functional categories	syntagmatic categories
What verbs lack of grammatical categories?	* modal	notional	transitive	intransitive
What grammatical category has «non-continuous» and «continuous» meaning?	* aspect	number	order	tense
By synthetic type of grammatical categories we understand	* the one which is expressed by grammatical inflections	the one which is expressed by notional words	the one which is expressed by auxiliary words	the one which is expressed by link verbs
The functional parts of speech can have	* structural meaning	stylistic meaning	full lexical meaning	no meaning
By paradigmatic relation they understand	* when words have some features in common	when words fulfill different functional	antonyms	when words express different meanings
By the analytical grammatical categories they understand the ones which are expressed by	* functional words	grammatical inflections	notional words	modal words
Which of the following words is are relative adjective?	* bronze	yellow	pretty	devastating
Choose the right answer. If he … I’ll ring you up.	*comes	come	came	goes
Which of the following adjectives is qualitative?	* dynamic	wooden	civil	metal
Which of the following groups of words are used to connect words in sentences?	* conjunctions	interjections	notional words	adverbs
What group of nouns do you refer to words «goods», «glasses» from the point of expressing number?	* pluraliatantum	regular	singularitantum	borrowed
Which of the following topics are the subject-matter of grammar?	* the grouping requirements of the parts of speech	the types of phonemes	the stylistic devices	neologisms
Which of the following pronouns have the meaning of gender	*personal	demonstrative	indefinite	relative
How can we find out which part of speech is the word «early»	* by its combinability	by its form	by its meaning	by its stem-building element
The emphatic form of possessive pronouns requires nouns in	* both in pre- and post-position	post-position	preposition	intermediate position
What part of speech has the following features: express the meaning of quality and has the degrees of comparison?	* adjective	verb	stative	noun
Why do the grammarians think that «s» is still a case inflections?	*because it is used to connect two nouns	because it can`t be added to all nouns	because it is not pronounced when it is added to nouns in the plural form	because it has no meaning
Which of the following pronouns refer to two different subtypes	* her	me	your	our
How many criteria did American Descriptive linguists use to classify words to parts of speech?	*1	2	3	4
Choose the right answer. If we … good marks our teacher will be happy.	* get	gets	getting	are got
What group of nouns does the word «scissors» refer to?	*pluralia tantum	singularia tantum	irregular	regular
What article is usually used with the word «sun»?	* definite	zero	indefinite	both and the
How many degrees of comparison in adjective?	*3	2	1	4
What verbs lack the grammatical categories?	* modal	intransitive	notional	transitive
The usual function of finite verbs is:	* predicate	predicative	subject	object
What verb is «to grow» in the sentence «he grew pale»?	* link	notional	auxiliary	modal
Which of the following parts of speech does not have any grammatical categories	* statives	verbs	adjectives	nouns
Which part of speech is morphologically most developed one?	* verbs	adverbs	pronouns	prepositions
From the point of view of taking objects verbs fall under	*3 subtypes	6 subtypes	4 subtypes	5 subtypes
What are the functions of the auxiliary verbs?	* to form the grammatical forms	to connect the words	to express number	to build new words
Finite forms of the verb differ from the non-finite ones by having	* different functions (subject, object and so on)	no grammatical forms	different stem-building elements	different lexical meaning
The non-finite forms of the verb can function as	* any part of the sentence but predicate	any part of the sentence	only attributive	devastating
What kind of syntactic relation is there between the words «He laughs»?	* primary predication	subordination	coordination	secondary predication
What kind of predication is the relation between the underlined words: John was seen waving his hand?	* secondary	zero	primary	tertiary
The absolute form of possessive pronouns requires nouns in	* preposition	both in pre- and post-position	intermediate position	post-position
What kind of linguistic relations is there among words in dictionaries?	* paradigmatic	syntagmatic	syntactic	stylistic
What kind of syntactic relation is there between the words «Him sleeping»?	* secondary predication	coordination	primary predication	agreement
What kind of syntactic relation is there between the words «red and white»?	* coordination	secondary predication	primary predication	subordination
Which of the following pronouns have the common and genitive cases	*reciprocal	personal	possessive	reflexive
Which part of speech is morphologically less developed one?	* statives	verbs	pronouns	adverbs
What is the term that defines the relation between the words in the following phrase: general assumption	* subordination	agreement	predication	coordination
Which part of speech has the following features: express the meaning of a property of an action and has the degrees of comparison.	* adverbs	verbs	pronouns	statives
What is the term that defines the relation between the underlined words: We watched the water cooling?	* predication	coordination	subordination	agreement
What kind of syntactic relation is there between the words «this chance»?	* government	collocation	joining	agreement