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HUE UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
GRAMMAR TEST 1
Students full names gender
male
female
DOB:... Class Group . Student code

I. Multiple choice test. Click on the box of the most correct answer.
is the study of the internal structure of words, and of the rules by which words are formed.
a. Word formation
b.
syntax
c.
morphology
d.
grammar
The minimal meaningful units of language are .
a.
Word
b.
morpheme
c.

morph

d.

phoneme

d.

di-transitive

The verb remain in He still remained a teacher is a(n) verb.

a.

intransitive

b.

intensive

c.

mono-transitive

Consequently in Consequently, he passed his exams is a .

a.

conjunct

b.

adjunct

Allomorphs are and conditioned.

a.
lexically
b.
phonologically

c.

disjunct

d.

coordination

c.

semantically

d.

(a), (b), and (c)

II. True - False test. Click on the T box if the statement is true or on the F box if the statement is false.

Word is the smallest unit of the language which can occur on its own in speech and
writing.
Grammaticality of a sentence depends on the truth and the meaningfulness of that
sentence.
In order to identify the type of word classes, the 3 criteria form, function and meaning
have been used.
Bound Morphemes cannot occur alone while Free Morphemes can
They wanted her to sing the song again is a complex sentence

III. [Choose the most correct answer.]

The root of the word nationalize is
The word formation of piano is

Infectional affix the syntactic class of the base.

The compound noun dog food box has constituents.
The compound noun green house effect has elements
.affixes create new words out of existing words or morphemes by their addition. (Derivational)

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Morphemes that are added to another form and which do not change the syntactic categogy of that form are
called morphemes. (inflectional)
The process of deriving new words by assigning a new syntactic category to existing words without using
affixation is called . (conversion)
Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb, Preposition belong to the categories of words classes. (lexical)
Hi-Tech (for high technology) is a word derived from the process of in word formation. (clipping/abreviation)
In terms of a clause as a message, is the element which develops or predicates the focus of that message.
(Rheme)
The complete functional formula of an AP is (intensifier) + Head + . (Complement)
In the sentence She is a sensitive person, sensitive shows the function of adjectives. (attributive)
Finally in Finally, he found a way to get out of the jungle is a adverb. (conjunctive)
Describing a sentence using patterns such as S + V + O.i + O.d has shown the characteristic/(sequence) of
English sentences. (linear)
clauses are clauses in which the predicate phrase begins not with a present or past tense verb or a modal
but with a to before the verb. (Nonfinite)

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