Tests on “Theory of English Grammar”

Tests on “Theory of English Grammar”
1. What type of the number are the nouns in the sentence "I lit cigarette after cigarette"?
A) singularia tantum
B) absolute singular
C) pluralia tantum
D) repetition plural
2. What kind of number is the noun "family"?
A) the common singular
B) the correlative singular
C) the multitude plural
D) the plurative tantum
3. What scholars formulated that grammatical elements were equivalent to case-forms?
A) H. Sweet
B) G. Curme
C) O. Jesperson
D) J. C. Nesfield
4. What is the essence of "limited case theory" in the English nouns?
A) It is the system of four cases of nouns
B) It is the system of three cases of nouns
C) It is the system of two cases of nouns
D) There are no cases at all in English nouns
5. What is case?
A) The grammatical category
B) The category manifested by some signs
C) The category of English nouns
D) The category of a noun expressing relations between the thing denoted by the noun
6. What branch of science is grammar?
A) The heart of the language
B) Grammar classifies words into sorts of categories
C) A science of the laws of linguistic usage
D) Studies new methods of linguistic investigation
7. What is the method of I.e. analysis?
A) The most efficient in studying word-making
B) Important in morphology and syntax
C) Based on a binary principle
D) A group of linguistics that functions as a unit in some larger whole
8. What's a distributional analysis?
A) The kind of environment in which a linguistic unit can occur
B) The most helpful on levels of language learning
C) Widely used in lexicological analysis
D) Widely used in word-formation
9. What is the method of transformational analysis?
A) In fact, not something quite novel
B) It can change the kernel sentence
C) It begins by making fundamental distinction between kernel sentences and transforms
D) It can expand the kernel in any ways to create the variety of sentences
10. What is the method of substitution?
A) It is the most efficient in studying the grammatical aspects of style
B) It means testing similarity by placing into identical environment is common at all levels of linguistic structure
C) It is helpful in determining classes of words
D) It is widely used in morphology
11. What is the subject matter of the branches of linguistics?
A) Phonetics, lexis, grammar
B) Phonology, lexicology, grammar
C) Morphology, lexis, grammar
D) Phonology, lexis, grammar
12. What has modern scientific study provided us with?
A) with new assumptions, methods of linguistic analysis
B) With new classifications of language
C) With new models of linguistic analysis
D) With new laws of linguistic usage
13. How is colloquial English generally recognized by?
A) By its addressing a meeting
B) By its loose syntax
C) by its legal documents
D) by its idiomatic patterns
14. What is the synchronic linguistics concerned with?
A) the changes that occur in time
B) the result from overlooking it
C) the whole of speech activities and regularities
D)the description of the existing structure of the language
15. What is grammatical meaning?
A) the material meaning of a word
B) the formal meaning of a word
C) it is expressed by the word's form
D) gives the concept of a word
16. How is the grammatical category generally represented by?
A) by two grammatical forms
B) by the problems of oppositions
C) by one grammatical form
D) by the "marked" member
17. What is the structural meaning in the sentence?
A) the linguistic meaning in the utterance
B) the lexical meaning of a separate word
C) the grammatical meaning in the utterance
D) the fundamental and necessary meaning in the sentence
18. What grammatical forms are there in Modern English?
A) synthetical forms
B) analytical forms
C) synthetical and inflectionalforms
D) synthetical and analytical forms
19. What does the synthetical system include?
A) final and zero inflections
B) suppletivity and end inflections
C) suppletivity and inflections
D) plural and case inflections
20. What parts of speech is there suppletivity as a grammatical form in?
A) in all parts of speech
B) in notional parts of speech
C) in some verbs and adjetives
D) in some verbs, adjectives and pronouns
21. What types of inflections are there in traditional grammar?
A) initial, internal, zero
B) final, initial, internal
C) internal, zero, end
D) internal, final, end
22. What types of inflections are there in Mod.English?
A) internal and final
B) end and final
C) zero and initial
D) initial and internal
23. How many inflectional forms had OE nouns?
A) one
B) ten
С) nine
D) four
24. How many inflectional forms had Mod.English verbs?
A) ten B)two C) four D) one
25. State the type of homonymy in these examples: He called his sister a heroine.
He called his sister a taxi. A) Inflectional B) constructional C) lexical D) lexico-grammatical
26. When did the analytical forms appear in the English language?
A) after the process of word-building
B) after the appearance of lexical meaning
C) after the disappearance of structural meaning
D) after the disappearance of inflections
27. How many elements does an analytical form consist of?
A) one
B) two or more
C)the second
D) only one sense unit
28. What kind of verbs is used in some cases to imply a state rather than an action in Mod.English?
A) transitive verbs
B) intransitive verbs
C) the suppletive verb "to go"
D) the suppletive verb "to be"
29. What kind of forms of the passive voice are frequent in colloquial English?
A) wuth the auxiliary verbs
B) with the auxiliary verb "to be"
C) with the auxiliary verb "to get"
D) with functional verbs
30. What is the general criteria of defining the linguistic nature of analytical forms?
A) it is equally applicable for all languages
B) their specific peculiarity
C) their syntactic functions
D) the same syntactical relation as words