Theoretical Grammar Test 2

Noun AND Adjective

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

a) adverbs;

b) prepositions;

c) postpositional particles.

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

a) subject;

b) predicate;

c) attribute;

d) object.

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

a) proper; common;

b) animate; inanimate;

c) human; non-human;

d) countable; uncountable.

4. The category of gender in English is:

a) formal;

b) 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.

a) feminine - ….

b) neuter gender - …..

c) common gender - ……

d) masculine - ……

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.

a. Singularia Tantum nouns - ………..

b. Pluralia Tantum nouns - ……

c. regular countable nouns - …

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

a) “the theory of positional cases”;

b) “the theory of prepositional cases”;

c) “ the theory of possessive postpositive”;

d) “ 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

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.

a) denoting possession - …….

b) denoting qualification - ……..