THEORETICAL GRAMMAR TEST 4

SYNTAX. PHRASE AND SENTENCE

1. The major lingual unit of syntax is:
B. the sentence
2. Domination, or explicit subordination of one syntactic component by another,
is otherwise known as:
B. hypotaxis
3. The main types of connections between the words inside the phrases are:
“coordination”, “subordination”, and “accumulation”.
4. The narrow definition of the phrase, that includes only the combinations of
notional words one of which dominates another, belongs to:
A. V.V. Vinogradov
5. The phrase spent the weekend is:
B. regressive
6. Define the mode of realization of connections between the words in the
following phrases:
A. came late – с) adjoining
D. answered me – b) government
C. these books – а) agreement
D. has already answered – d) enclosure
7. Characterize the following phrases:
А. Blacks or Afro-Americans – b) dominational/ subordinative
B. slow, though not always – c) cumulative
C. a stupid thing – a) equipotent/ coordinative
D. them playing – d) bilateral dominational/ interdependent
8. Name the three basic differential features of the sentence as a lingual unit: the
sentence is the only lingual unit characterized by “the theme”, “the rheme”, and
“the transition”.
9. The sentence is:
B. a predicative lingual unit
10. The sentence as a lingual unit in the broad sense is:
A. a unit of speech
11. The center of predication around which the structure of the sentence is built
is “…”.
12. Define the type of the sentence on the base of positional parts presentation: I
am a teacher.
B. unexpanded
13. What syntactic functions do the nouns fulfill in the following sentence?
My sister (a), Mary (b), was once a cheer (c) leader (d) at school (e).
14. What types of syntactic constructions can be characterized as “pseudo-
sentences” (“quasi-sentences”)?
A. vocative sentences: John!
B. nominative sentences: Marvelous!
C. meta-communicative sentences: Hello!
D. infinitive sentences: To say a thing like this!
E. emphatic sentences: What a day!
15. The traditional classification of the notional parts of the sentence correlates
with what in N. Chomsky’s transformational grammar theory is called:
A. the deep (conceptual) structure of the sentence
18. Define the semantic role of the subject in the following sentences:
А. Jenny wrote that letter.. а) Locative
B. That letter was written by Jenny. b) Agent
C. The pen tore the paper. с) Patient
D. Moscow hosted the summit. d) Instrument