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Theoretical Grammar Test 1

This document contains a theoretical grammar test with multiple choice questions covering various topics in grammar including parts of speech, approaches to grammar, tense distinctions in English, and grammatical frameworks. It tests the examinee's knowledge of the definitions and classifications of key concepts in linguistic theory as well as the ability to match terms, definitions, and grammarians with the appropriate approaches to grammar.

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Theoretical Grammar Test 1

This document contains a theoretical grammar test with multiple choice questions covering various topics in grammar including parts of speech, approaches to grammar, tense distinctions in English, and grammatical frameworks. It tests the examinee's knowledge of the definitions and classifications of key concepts in linguistic theory as well as the ability to match terms, definitions, and grammarians with the appropriate approaches to grammar.

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THEORETICAL GRAMMAR TEST 1

GENERAL NOTIONS
1. Correlation between the types of grammatical meaning and their definitions:
1. C)
2. A)
3. B)
2. Proper correlation between the term and its definition:
1. c)
2. d)
3. a)
3. The unity of … as its constituent parts forms a language.
c)
4. Grammar does not study … .
c)
5. Charles Fries and his infamous part of speech classification into four major positional
classes represent … taxonomic… approach in Grammar Studies.
6. Proper correlation between the term and its definition:
1. b)
2. a)
3. d)
4. c)
5. e)
7. The aim of theoretical grammar is … .
c)
8. Each period in English Grammar studies can be described as follows:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
1. Prescriptive a) is the objective study of a language structure, without
Grammar reference to meaning and other languages which relies
heavily on formal methods of analysis.
2. Classical b) focuses on the communicative, as opposed to cognitive,
Scientific aspect of language and views grammar as a means to realize
Grammar the three major language metafunctions.
3. Structuralism c) is characterized by patterning after Latin and by the use of
logic and subjective opinion in classifying words and in
establishing grammatical categories.
4. Transformational d) studies possible sentences, i.e. the speaker’s-hearer’s
-generative knowledge of a language (competence); it aims at a system
grammar of formal mathematically precise rules that generates
grammatical sentences of the language and assigns to each
sentence a structural description.
5. Systemic e) focuses on actual usage without assessing its correctness and
functional analyses the English of the best contemporary authors.
grammar
9.
1. b)
2. c)
3. a)

10. “The combining power of words in relation to other words in syntactically subordinate
positions” is called …syntactic valency……
11. The major tense-distinction in English, according to modern morphological theory, is..
b. is best regarded as a contrast of past::non-past

12. Correlation between the grammarians and their approaches to the case system in
English:
1. b)
2. a)
3. d)
4. c)
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.
c) structural;
15. Charles Fries introduced … .
b)
16. Suppletivity is a … .
b)

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