10. “The combining power of words in relation to other words in syntactically subordinate positions” is called ……… .

11. The major tense-distinction in English, according to modern morphological theory, is … .

a. described only as an opposition of past::present::future

b. is best regarded as a contrast of past::non-past

c. best regarded as a contrast of present::non-present

d. is described as an opposition of past::future

12. Correlation between the grammarians and their approaches to the case system in English:

G. Vorontsova, B.Ilyish	the theory of limited cases, which recognizes a two-case system in English;
H.Sweet, O.Jespersen,	the theory of ‘null’ case, which argues that English has completely lost the category of case;
Max Deutschbein	the theory of prepositional cases, which treats prepositional constructions as analytic cases;
M. Blokh	the theory of positional cases, which identifies the syntactic position, or function, with case.

13. The grammatical frameworks known as … accounts for communicative aspects of language use.

a) Structural grammar;

b) Transformational-generative grammar;

c) Systemic functional grammar;

d) Generative semantics.

14. The Prague school mostly developed … approach in linguistics.

1. transformational;

2. stratificational;

3. structural;

4. functional;

15. Charles Fries introduced … .

1. parts of speech and function words

2. four major classes of words and fifteen form-classes

3. declinable and indeclinable parts of speech

4. notional and functional parts of speech

16. Suppletivity is a … .

a) grammatical phenomenon realized in a variety of equivalent grammatical forms for one word;

b) type of building analytical wordforms;

c) synthetic means of form-building ;

d) productive means of form-building;

e) replacive morpheme.

17. In members of … parts of speech the grammatical meaning dominates over the lexical one.

18. Within the oppositional theory the absolute singular and the absolute plural which are unusual uses of grammatical meanings of number are cases of … .

Theoretical Grammar Test 2 Noun and Adjective

1. Noun is the only notional part of speech which can be combined with:

1. adverbs;

2. prepositions;

3. postpositional particles.

2. Which of the syntactic functions is not fulfilled by the noun in English?

1. subject;

2. predicate;

3. attribute;

4. object.

3. Describe the noun cat according to the following characteristics:

1. proper; common;

2. animate; inanimate;

3. human; non-human;

4. countable; uncountable.

4. The category of gender in English is:

1. formal;

2. meaningful;

5. For the bulk of English nouns the category of gender is:

a) constant feature category;

b) variable feature category.

6. Define the gender characteristics of the following nouns - teacher, smoke, landlord, hostess.

1. feminine - ….

2. neuter gender - …..

3. common gender - ……

4. masculine - ……

7. Transpositional reduction of the category of gender, i.e. the use of the neuter gender nouns with feminine or masculine pronouns (vessel – she), is known as a special stylistic device of “…”.

8. Define the number category characteristics of the following nouns - news, car, shorts, salt, man, cattle.

1. Singularia Tantum nouns - ………..

2. Pluralia Tantum nouns - ……

3. regular countable nouns - …

9. The most widely accepted theory of the category of case in English is:

1. “the theory of positional cases”;

2. “the theory of prepositional cases”;

3. “ the theory of possessive postpositive” ;

4. “ the theory of limited case”.

10. Transform the following word combinations, if possible, into word combinations with the genitive: (e.g.: operation of my friend à my friend’s operation):

the problem of unemployment, the article written by Tom, coats for men, a distance of one mile, the leg of a table

11. Define the semantic types of the genitive in the following word -combinations: three hours’ walk, my father's coat, a new women’s shop, Ms. Flom’s contribution.

1. denoting possession - …….

2. denoting qualification - ……..

12. Articles and other (lexical) determiners express the category of “…/…/…”.

13. The combination of an article with a noun is:

1. a word-combination;

2. an analytical form of the noun;

3. a combination of a specific intermediary status between the morphological form of the noun and the word-combination.

14. Which of the following statements is true?

1. the situational rules of the articles use comply with their generalized semantics;

2. the situational rules of the articles use do not comply with their generalized semantics;

3. some situational rules of the articles use do not comply with their generalized semantics.

15. The basic semantic function of the A. qualitative / B. for relative adjectives is:

a) specificative function;

b) evaluative function.

16. To what groups does the adjective golden belong in the following context: He is the golden boy of the show-biz?

a) 1)qualitative; 2) relative;

b) 1)evaluative; 2) specificative.

17. In which of the following sentences is the superlative degree used in the elative sense?

1. It was the most promising of his declarations;

2. It was a most promising declaration.

18. The adjectives and the adverbs can form the degrees of comparison when they are used in:

1. the evaluative semantic function;

2. the specificative semantic function.

19. The words which denote groups of referents united by a common property, like the newly-wed, or abstract notions, like the bitter, make:

1. a subclass of the nouns;

2. a subclass of the adjectives.