3. I saw car left on the beach; the windows of __ were broken.

a) her b) it

4. No one managed to swim __ in such nasty weather.

a) a five miles distance b) five miles’ distance c) a five mile distance

Section 2

Define the type of linguistic analysis:

1. D 3 1a/he,she 2-d D 3 1b/it 4

2. If that true adventurer of yours comes here we are unlikely to succeed.

F :: Pr

3. The woman who teaches us Italian now is not a teacher.

‘woman’ – n; ‘teaches’ – v; ‘who’ – relative prn.; ‘The’ – d.

Section 3

Give the correct answer to the given questions

1. The synonymous name of ‘an implicit morpheme’ is:

a)an overt morpheme; b) an explicit morpheme; a zero morpheme

2. What is the basis for singling out ‘bound morphemes’?

3. What is the difference between complementary and contrastive distribution?

4. Is there anything similar between the terms ‘equipollent’ and ‘equipotent’? Give your commentary.

Section 4

Fill in the table answering the following question: What verb categories are the most universal in the English language and function both in Finite and Non-finite forms? Mark your answer with ‘+’ or ‘-‘

Category	Person	Number	Tense	Voice	Aspect	Mood	TempCor.
Finite
Non-finite

Section 5

Read the statement and confirm or don’t confirm it by ‘yes’ or ‘no’

15. The process of substitution is presented in English by substantivization

16. By distribution of an element we understand the sum of its total environments

17. Syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations are correspondingly referred to as ‘in absentia’ and ‘in praesentia’

18. The privative opposition is presented by a marked and an unmarked terms

19. Traditional classification of Parts of Speech is based on the criteria: semantic, morphological and synthetic

20. The opposite of ‘adjectivization’ is ‘nominalization’

21. The category of voice counts two categorial meanings: Active and Passive

22. Free’ and ‘bound’ morphemes are distinguished on the basis of dependence

23. The weak term of the privative opposition is used in a narrower range of contexts than the strong term

Section 6

Identify the genitive taking into account the semantic relations between the nouns.

1. the man’s irony	7. nice children’s caps
2. the man’s punishment	8. Wilde’s last epigram
3. the man’s wife	9. a two hours’ journey of the man
4. the man’s boss	10. a new children’s shop
5. men’s habits	11. the man’s arrival
6. the cock’s self-confidence of the man	12. yesterday’s unexpected storm

keys

Section 1 Section 2 Section 3

1 – B 1 – B 1 – C

2 – А 2 – B 2 – B

3 – B 3 – A 3 – A

4 – C 4 – B 4 – B

5 – A

Section 4

category	person	number	tense	voice	aspect	mood	temporal correlation
finite	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
non-finite	-	-	-	+	(+)	-	+

Section 5 Section 6

1 - no 1 – B

2 – no 2 – A

3 – no 3 – B

4 – yes 4 – A

5 – no 5 – B

6 – yes 6 – A

7 – no 7 – B

8 – yes 8 – B

9 – yes 9 – B

10 – no 10 – A

11 – no 11 - A

12 – yes

13 – yes

14 – no

Ключи

тестовым заданиям по теорграмматике

1-го семестра (декабрь)

Section 1	Section 2	Section 3	Section 4	Section 5		Section 6
Which of the variants doesn’t /don’t suit the given descrip-tion	Define the type of linguistic analysis	Give the correct answer to the given questions	What verb categories function both in Finite and Non-finite verbs (put ‘+’ or ‘ – ‘ )	Read the statement and confirm or don’t confirm it by “yes” or “no”		Identify the type of Genitive taking into account the semantic relations btw. the nouns
1- a	1-distributional	1- c	Voice + Temporal Correlation + Aspect + (Infinitive) _ (Gerund, Participle)	1 – No	1- Subjective
2 - a,c	2- oppositional	2- never occur in isolation		2 – Yes	2 - Patient
3 - a	3- traditional	3- in complimentary d. we have to do with different morphs having the same function in different environments (cows-geese); in contrastive d. we have different morphs in identical environments (spells-spelled)		3 – No	3 - Family relations
4 - a,b,c		4 - equality of the terms based on equal rank		4 – Yes	4 - Social relations
				5 – No	5 - Despensed qualification
				6 – No	6 - Comparison
				7 – No	7 - Destination
				8 – Yes	8 - Authorship
				9 – Yes	9 - Quantity (time relations)
					10 - Destination
					11 - Agent
					12 - Adverbial (time relations)

Тестовые задания по теоретической грамматике английского языка для студентов 4 курса факультета иностранных языков, специальность 021700

Чусова А.А.

кафедра английской филологии

количество заданий – 45

время выполнения – 60 минут

код дисциплины - 302

Модуль 1

Section 1

Which of the variants doesn’tsuit the given description: