Test on syntax corresp dept

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 912.

Answer the following questions choosing the appropriate option a), b), c), d):

1. Professor Blokh uses the following term for “word combination”:

a) word group;

b) phrase;

c) syntagmatic grouping;

d) supra-sentential construction.

2. The category of predication of the sentence serves to express:

a) a relation of the denoted event to reality;

b) a relation between the subject and the attribute;

c) a connection between the predicate and the object;

d) a connection between a finite verb and the subject.

3. Paradigmatic syntax studies:

a) parts of speech taken separately;

b) word paradigms;

c) phrases composed of different parts of speech;

d) variations of one and the same sentence.

4. The basic syntactic notions are:

a) the syntagma and the phrase;

b) the phrase and the sentence;

c) the sentence and the text;

d) the morpheme and the word.

5. Which of these doesn't show the difference between the phrase and the sentence:

a) intonation;

b) fixed syntactic pattern;

c) category of predication;

d) number of words.

6. A predicative line of the sentence is:

a) a connection of the denoted event to reality;

b) a relation between the subject and the predicate;

c) a relation between the predicate and the object;

d) a connection between a finite verb and the subject.

7. What types are sentences classified into according to structure?

a) simple, complex and declarative;

b) complex and semi-complex;

c) simple and composite;

d) compound and simple.

8. Any text is:

a) an utterance which has a certain conventional force;

b) a language unit expressing a thought;

c) a coherent stretch of speech which is a semantico-topical and syntactic unity;

d) a logical sequence of sentences.

9. The compound verbal predicate may be expressed by all these but:

a) must go

b) have a try

c) begin to admire

d) will bring

10. Charles Fries classified sentences according to:

a) The communicative purpose of the initial utterance

b) According to the response utterance

c) According to structure

d) According to predicative function

11. An example of “adjoinment” in a phrase is:

a) To grow slowly

b) Talk to him

c) A horror movie

d) These novels

12. Syntax as a branch of grammar studies:

a) Words, phrases and sentences

b) Sentences and the text

c) Phrases and sentences

d) Phrases, sentences and the text

13. Professor Smirnitsky distinguishes the following types of personal subject but:

a) Negative

b) Indefinite demonstrative

c) Definite personal

d) Personal proper