EXAMINATION QUESTIONS

Theoretical Grammar

1 The subject of theoretical grammar

2 Language and Speech

3 Systemic relations in the English language (syntagmatic and paradigmatic)

4 Syntax as a branch of Grammar

5 Grammatical form, meaning and categories

6 What does Morphology study?

7 Morphemes as the smallest units of the language

8 The nominal part of speech: verb. Its classifications

9 The nominal part of speech: noun

10 Grammatical category of aspect

11 Semantic, morphological and syntactic features of nouns

12 Main parts of the sentence

13 Communicative types of sentences

14 Nominal parts of speech: adjectives

15 Nominal parts of speech: pronouns

16 Grammar in the system of language

17 Noun. The categories of gender and number

18 Verb. The category of tense

19 Verb. The category of voice

20 Non-finite forms of the verb

21 General characteristics of structural types of sentences

22 Different kinds of Grammar (descriptive, prescriptive, universal)

23 The development of Grammar and its types

24 The subject of Theoretical Grammar, its difference from Traditional

25 Main parts of speech in English grammar

Lexicology

1 Lexicology as a part of Linguistics

2 The main branches of Lexicology

3 Synchronic and diachronic approaches to the language

4 Word as the subject matter of Lexicology

5 Word-formation. Morpheme as a part of a word

6 Types of word-formation

7 Affixation. Productive and non-productive affixes

8 Semasiology. The study of meaning

9 Borrowings in English, their causes

10 International words

11 Semantic changes in the language (polysemy, homonymy)

12 Semantic structure of a word

13 Types of semantic change of the meaning

14 Synonyms and Antonyms in English

15 Phraseology as a science

16 Phraseological units, ways of forming phraseological units

17 Lexicology and its connection with other linguistic disciplines

18 Semantic classification of phraseological units

19 Lexicography

20 Types of dictionaries

21 Semasiology. The study of meaning

22 Types of word-formation
23 Word-groups and phraseological units

24 Homonymy and Polysemy in English

25 Give the definition of some concepts